#shareholder

Hoping for fun happy New Years at MDT.
Lets get that stock price over 100$ again maybe 130$ ... fight fight fight at all costs we can do it !!!
Whos with me?

Is to create shareholder value. HBU?

Warner Bros Discovery has urged shareholders to reject a $108.4bn hostile takeover offer from Paramount Skydance, branding it “inadequate” amid an extraordinary corporate battle to control the legacy media conglomerate.

In a blunt letter to shareholders on Wednesday morning, WBD accused Paramount of having “consistently misled” investors by claiming its bid has a “full backstop” – a safety net to ensure it has sufficient funds – from the Ellisons.

Paramount did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Following a careful evaluation of Paramount’s recently launched tender offer, the Board concluded that the offer’s value is inadequate, with significant risks and costs imposed on our shareholders,” Samuel A Di Piazza Jr, chairman of WBD’s board, said in a statement. “This offer once again fails to address key concerns that we have consistently communicated to Paramount throughout our extensive engagement and review of their six previous proposals.

“We are confident that our merger with Netflix represents superior, more certain value for our shareholders and we look forward to delivering on the compelling benefits of our combination.”

Source: The Guardian

Bill and his Board of Bandits continue to throw things against the wall hoping something will stick to get share price up.

Mission accomplished, another quarter and another dividend for shareholders.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/verizon-communications-inc-vz-announces-123254918.html

Annual sales declines of 2.6% for the past five years show its products and services struggled to connect with the market

Earnings per share decreased by more than the revenue over the last five years, showing each sale was less profitable

8× net-debt-to-EBITDA ratio shows it’s overleveraged and increases the probability of shareholder dilution if things turn unexpectedly

When do the Board declare no confidence in them ?

The grift that keeps on grifting. He will consult through the transition.
Plus private jet perks and more for leading the company from 1st to 3rd place.
Will he still have a security detail?
Employee shareholders pay the price.

Think about it. The man is a fraud, the board of ATT is a fraud.
Fastow, Skilling, Lay, Stankey

And the meter is still running........

$1.5m base
250% sti = $3.7m

$59.5 grants due on 2027

RSUs:
$9.5m
$20m
$30m
(As reported in Verizon's SEC filings for his appointment)

Is this guy living in La-la land? Satisfying customers? For years customers have been complaining thar VZ is super expensive. While TM proivded a flat rate bill, VZ’s bills are never the same. The arrogance of VZ leadership and the board bite us all.

So their best solutions was: Fire 13k of our peers. This is all BS

Verizon’s version of the Big Short. Layoffs for short term stock gains.

https://youtu.be/Ihs2r2O-b5s?si=cCIxaxPOkfkSIOOr

Buckle up Pepsico for a bumpy ride.

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/pepsico-nears-settlement-with-activist-investor-elliott-dbda9a2a

I don’t know where it started but someone in the banking sector painted a picture with golden rainbow of return via AI. All the banks all jumped on board with such a claim so as to not be left out.

Well its not panned out for any of them at all. Now, to make the shareholders happy $ has to be found. It’ll be done by way of layoffs. The first quarter of next year for all banks will be a bloodbath. All banks that made AI promises will be passing out pink slips left and right.

AI promises were made that it’d save TONS of $ and it has not. Now is the time to pay the piper and there are shareholder expectations to be met. They are expecting lots of cheddar on the promises made. So, you have to recoup that money from somewhere.
Lay people off + a reduction in force by way of attrition. Turn up the heat, pile on the work and watch people leave which is a big win so that you don’t have to pay out severance.

The best part that is that Jane still gets her extra 20+ million $ bonus….again. As far as Citi upper echelon is concerned, all is right with the world.

Be real. Wells Fargo made money in up years and bad years. It was due to the various lines of business they had. It was a highly conservative and well balanced business plan. Norwest Bank, and then Wells Fargo, was a premier place to work and to put your trust. Until the new management and "new profit" centers were brought in. At that point, the bank, which had been steadily profitable, and a great place to work, began to break down. New managers, who's only thought was the latest FAD, were put in place. Accelerate that to today's situation, and you can see that Wells Fargo has become just another Citi, just another big corporation that is only organized to make money for shareholders. Many long time employees have left. Many have been terminated. Many have been laid off.
You can see where this is going. Fast forward to some unknown economic issue, and the bank is caught flat-footed. Losses. Huge losses. Due to new direction and lack of diversification. All straight line responsibility to the "new management" that have arrived, similar to locusts. Yes, locusts. You see, they bring their fellows. you know, the "yes men" who give good subservience but don't call out the risks. And then, everyone is surprised when the dominoes fall.
What a joke.

SAP is currently facing a very unstable situation.

We are already witnessing this with HP and several other major companies.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/hp-inc-shares-fall-as-company-says-it-will-cut-up-to-6000-employees.html

Despite significant layoffs and reductions in their operating costs, HP's stock has declined. Investors clearly perceive a lack of a solid plan to enhance profits, which has diminished shareholder confidence.

The SAP executive board is convinced that layoffs and dividends will elevate the stock price, but this approach will not work. Shareholders are not interested in quick returns through dividends; they want to see a comprehensive plan from SAP and increased investments rather than more layoffs. P23 has already demonstrated that layoffs are costly and do not significantly reduce operating expenses. The stock price began to drop sharply after the announcement of regular layoffs and superficial measures.

The only viable solution is to dismiss most of the board and develop a genuine strategy. However, supervisory board members who are attempting to hold the executive board accountable are already facing pressure and being urged to resign. Just as we witnessed half of the Betriebsrat depart during the recent layoffs, we can expect most supervisory board members to take a lucrative deal and exit.

Consequently, layoffs will persist. The stock price will continue to decline. The executive board will receive their largest bonuses ever, while leaving no budget for employee salary increases or bonuses. They will penalize employees because the workforce is too intimidated to advocate for themselves.

JD absolutely burned Nike, pure failure no question. His strategy was cost reduction and DTC, no real tech chops as PK hoped, fitting of a consultant. Company value cut in half 2020-2024 during his time!

How does PK wipe the egg off his face after hand selecting JD, demoralizing employees, and scaring off shareholders? Go back to the safety of Nike DNA roots picking EH a former Dallas Cowboy trainer for his friend JJ.

Cronie nepotism at its best. EH is WAY over his head, he’s a salesman not a CEO. Nike has a very uncertain future ahead, it’s worrisome.

What’s next people? More excuses ahead of earnings coming certainly…

Ooh still seems we have one:

https://www.verizon.com/about/our-company/code-conduct

Seems it’s just about half the length it used to be, and what we lived up to daily, which made us great.. up until our management disregarded it in their daily life’s…

Mass shareholder returns is driven by having happy customers…

Is there happy customers?
Can we do a poll on redit?

Do stock holders lose everything if they are forced to delist?
What about shorting the stock, what happens?

Guys, let’s pleeeease all stop being greedy and wanting to keep our jobs. Here are some stats to show you guys how greedy you are:

• Verizon ONLY made $5 billion in net income last quarter. That’s practically nothing
• Worst yet, Verizon has ONLY made $20 billion in net income in the past 12 months. Practically bankrupt. Very unprofitable.
• Headcount was down over 45,000 under Hans. That’s nothing!!
• Since 2015, headcount is down ~80,000. Why not more!? Come on. Take one for the team, guys.
• Our dividend is ONLY 6.93% so we only pay out $11.6 billion a year to our shareholders in dividends. This clearly isn’t enough.
• Hans only made $24 million a year and Sampath only makes $13 million a year. This hardly buys you waterfront in The Hamptons.

You guys need to all stop being so greedy over paying your mortgages, your children’s college bills, and going to the supermarket.

We need to keep our shareholders and executives at the forefront of everything, because they are clearly suffering much more than we are.

I’ll be starting a GoFundMe soon because I doubt Dan Schulman’s bonus will be big enough, but I’m sure he has already asked Perplexity and brought it up at the dinner table with his family.

Looks like the shareholders are OK with Imperial Oil. I guess from a shareholder perspective, the company is doing OK.

Employees don’t want it to be like this too. After all, our pensions are tied to the company, and some of us will still get their salary from this company.

Don’t want bad for anyone, so happy to see that the stock price is going up.

Being spun off as a subsidiary, will make the books and share holder value increase. VBG to follow

Shareholders care about capital gains. Is XOM going up? No. Hardly keeping up with inflation. Then what the f is the management doing?

I'm finally back in the green on TDC overall now up $44,000 really have a great amount of being a shareholder and being a part of the mission here. For the doubters TDC has massive potential as realized by the cloud arr. It's an excellent stock to buy and hold

If every former and current employee contributed to an LLC to buy up Truist shares until that entity gained majority share, they could overthrow Bill and the BOD. Not sure why someone hasn’t started this yet? Seems like an easy answer.

Thank you BNY for rewarding your employees again this year, we are happy to take the hit so the shareholders can profit...we are all shareholders after all

Arguably John Gibbons was most responsible for the operational decline of the FI Group.

If you need to pay him - it is a slap in shareholders faces to do so. He could have been let go for cause, not a made up Senior Advisor. Who exactly is he advising?

Why does UP stock su-k so bad. They are always painting a picture of rainbows and unicorns. With earnings, safety, merger talk. Shareholders must know they are full of s$$$. Because the stock just wants to drop no matter what.

$40 billion more approved for 2026 and beyond.

It doesn’t matter that they are rolling in cash. They want you gone because there is never enough cash for those who worship it.

Capitalism destroys itself without a strong democratic government that protects its citizens. The government we have is bought by the capitalists.

CAmt be an activist shareholder when your exitsing stock holding will be worth 37% of your original hold! Give them credit, they made money on their investment. And no responsibility or moral obligation to remain inveted wuth this hot steaming mess.
then the stock price drops. and the old guys, well, the old guys who werent always at the big Q, they know whats coming! Grab your popcorn! I know this song!

So the bottom has finally fallen out, huh?! The smoke has dissipated and the mirrors shattered. The Bisignano scam has been exposed. Now shareholders are left to hold the bag?l. All those ppl whose compensation was tied to stock shares. Sc--wed. Meanwhile, Bisignano has cashed out and is off probably finding ways to ruin social security at the behest of his sc-mb@g boss.

What will it take to get this clown and his minions imprisoned? What lessons can we learn from this? One thing that I've learned is I won't be accepting any compensation that's tied to stock. Give me my cash and I'll invest it on the market as I see fit.

Prepare for more layoffs while fck boi Frank with his seared conscience enjoys the money he stole from us.

This is disgraceful.

The layoff news was supposed to save Target by appeasing our shareholders. Usually there’s a nice big spike when layoffs are announced. This news barely made a blip. Was it worth it?

Soon company ( I think Nov 18,2025) will have its Annual Stockholder virtual meeting. You are more than welcome to ask tough questions to uncle L, aunt SC & rest of the old horses.

Richard Greedmore, CEO of MegaCorp Unlimited, had one guiding principle: the dividend must go up. It didn’t matter if the company was selling actual products or just the illusion of productivity—shareholders needed their quarterly dopamine hit.

One crisp morning, as Richard strutted out of his 97th-floor office (which had a view of the poor, for motivational purposes), he spotted a homeless man outside the building fumbling with a cup of change. A nickel rolled away, followed by a rogue dime. Richard’s eyes widened.

“Loose capital!” he gasped.

Without hesitation, he dove from the steps like a linebacker chasing a bonus. He snatched the nickel mid-roll and tackled the dime just before it hit the gutter. Passersby watched in horror and confusion as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company wrestled a penny from a pigeon.

“Every cent counts!” he shouted, holding the coins aloft like trophies. “This is shareholder value!”

He rushed back inside, burst into the finance department, and slammed the coins on the table.

“Add this to the dividend pool. We’re going up 0.0000000003% this quarter!”

The CFO blinked. “Sir, that’s... less than the cost of the paper we’d need to announce it.”

“Then announce it digitally!” Richard barked. “We’ll save on toner!”

From that day forward, MegaCorp instituted the “Street Sweep Initiative,” where interns were deployed to scour sidewalks for spare change. The company’s stock rose 0.0001%, and Richard was hailed as a visionary.

Meanwhile, the homeless man was hired as Chief Revenue Scout, earning minimum wage and stock options—vested over 97 years.

Where is Imperial's board in all of this? Aren't they supposed to be holding management accountable that any changes are in the best interest of Shareholders?

How is this good for Imperial? Move activities from Calgary to Houston where EM folks who are less familiar with the market will oversee the activities at a much higher cost, and then funnel more chargebacks to Imperial. Move activities to GBC's for sub-standard work from a bloated GBC headcount, while paying those folks to fly all around the world and racking up more opaque chargebacks. Move profitable Trading activities out of Calgary so EM can do it instead and pocket the $. How is that good for Imperial shareholders?

Relocate staff from Calgary to Edmonton, putting a huge amount of chaos into the business, incurring huge costs for severance, relocation, and then losing many of your best employees. You're left picking your team from whoever wants to move to Edmonton, which is a minority. All other energy business is in Calgary, so those staff in Edmonton will then have to travel back to Calgary regularly for meetings, incurring more cost and time. How is that beneficial to Shareholders?

I'm sure EM has put together a nice PPT showing the board that this is good for them, but shouldn't they be putting in some critical thought? How did the board say yes to all this? The board seems to be failing shareholders, and this is ripe for an investor lawsuit.

But hey, poor shareholders….

Anyone else notice some of the people with the worst leadership reviews actually got moved up the food chain? These shareholders wonder why Target is going downhill lol. People in power decide who they like and just make the decisions based on that and not on ability or qualifications.

Pretty well every employer is a shareholder. Speak out to the board and investor relations. If everyone floods them with messages showing disapproval as shareholders, the long term impact to the business they can’t ignore it.

Even with exxon owning 69.6% of the shares it starts to open so legal questions if they have opposition from other shareholders.

Your silence is acceptance.

If long term this hurts imperial there may be grounds for a shareholder class action.

New ceo said hard decisions will be made when discussing how we will win for shareholders... Layoffs? Lots and lots of layoffs? Yup