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Elliot Group did this

Elliot is an activist vulture capitalist investment group. They buy company stock, bleed them dry and then move on like locust. They are the ones who ruined Southwest Airlines and canceled their longstanding "bags fly free" company policy.

They bought a large position of TI Stock in Spring 2024. They wrote a letter to the Board demanding that TI cut expenses and increase stock dividends. They have been pushing for a seat on the board, but have not gotten one yet. Shortly after the layoffs began and have become a quarterly occurrence.

An aggravating factor is that Chinese backed startups have poached our customers by underselling us. Demand for our biggest product lines have dropped in half, so the layoffs are becoming more intense.


Cramer on Accenture Today

Take it with a grain of salt as he tends to be in bed with Comms Departments:

“Alright, now I gotta tell you, Accenture’s come down enough. It hit a 52-week low. I mean, how bad could it really be? It hit a 52-week low today. I don’t think it’s that bad. The only thing I would change is that when you do, when you put it in spell check, it always goes to CAN instead of ACN. But that’s not really their fault. I think that at 18 times earnings, I’m willing to pull the trigger, Accenture, and that’s the first time I’ve said that because I have really disliked the stock.”


uh oh

Melanie Huet sold 14.47% of her shares at $5.11, raising insider confidence concerns.


Last week for many - learnings

My understanding is it’s the last week/s for many, especially in Technology in the UK.

Words of wisdom from someone who has already left:

1) Use GivingForce and utilise your annual donation amount to your local charity/school etc. Apply using volunteer hours and make sure you use those $$ up.

2) Use energise points!! As long as you have a good relationship with your line manager (lots of which are also impacted), they will approve anything. So talk to your friends in the company, especially those who are also leaving and make sure you send the Sapphire and Platinum awards to each other. If you were smart, you would have been doing this since you were made aware of your situation, but it’s still not too late. Also send one for your line manager if you like them, or have been supported.

3) Use LHH - I found them good for CV review. Better some help than nothing.

4) Any employee match shares will vest ~1 month after you leave. Probably best to keep a little while longer though as it wouldn’t surprise me to see a short term gain in share price before all the job cuts really starts to impact in the next 1.5 years.

5) There is life after BP. BP is a big corporate, and despite the market, are likely to have solid enterprise experience which believe it or not, is quite hard to find sometimes. Take a break, and get back into it when needed. For all its failings and leadership issues, a lot of good work is done by many, and you’d be surprised by just how much you have managed to accomplish despite the internal struggles.


$46.10

All these awards VH receives and yet the stock sits in the mid 40's. When Oxy is sold and she rides away with her ridiculous executive severance package, I hope all this blathering on this blog was worth it. She'll move on and you will be stuck with the steaming mess of your career to resurrect.. Good luck.


Humana stock continues to tank......

Another day watching the stock tank. The street must be catching wind of what turmoil exists internally with employees and no clear strategy/leadership. I was Riff'd about 2 weeks ago and know many great employees that took the ERP. Louisville can be considered a "big city" but it's more of a "big community". Word spreads fast when there's this much dissatisfaction. So unfortunate for a company that had promise and a purpose, (not financially driven) many years ago.


ESPP

What happens to the current ESPP balance? Do we get stocks or do we get the money back? My notice date was Sept 2 and last date is Sept 22.
As per the FAQ, if termination date is after the 15th, you get stocks but I am trying to understand will it look at the 2nd or 22nd?


Target together

Investors need to step in. Target spends millions on Target together and there’s no return on investment other than people who get pumped back full of kool aid so they can keep working for the big red machine. Stock is at 80 now and it’s deplorable behavior to spend at a time like this. Layoffs need to happen asap to get rid of those still working from home adding little to no value!


Unlike this board, the stock market doesn’t lie

CDW’s is now officially dead money — the stock is down ~25% over the past year while the S&P 500 is up 16%, and Q2 showed revenue up 10% on a layup of a number reset but operating income was down 3% thanks to “margin pressure”. Hard to get excited when the CEO’s big vision looks like “steady hand” and “all weather team” while everyone else is lapping CDW in the rally. CEO should pivot to the AI trade, but they won’t. Jump ship if you can. Bets are that this quarter will be equally unimpressive.


Beware of Big Oracle Scam

It's all scam. Safra opened her mouth fee months back and misguided investors with fake numbers. But in parallel she sold her personal oracle stocks totalled 2.5 Billions. Yes, billions not millions.. It's just 20% of her total holdings..Although Oracle earnings had missed that quarter.
They played same again this quarter again. Earnings results came below expectations but stock went up by 40-50%, Leader of fraud Mafia became world's richest person but with 24hrs his son put a bid to buy media company in all cash approx. 20Billions as he father LE is going fund him. It's all legal fraud and beware of this scam...


Another potential acquisition

  • Paramount Skydance is working with an investment bank as it prepares an offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, according to people familiar with the matter.
  • Warner Bros. Discovery shares closed up more than 28% on Thursday, the stock’s best day ever. Shares of Paramount Skydance closed up 15%.
  • The Wall Street Journal first reported the recently merged Paramount Skydance was preparing a takeover bid for the entirety of WBD.
    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-skydance-bid.html

falling stock

stock falling to double digits, forget double digit growth. Too many SVPs with no work from GBS fired, yet no difference. some one in leadership should ask, instead of bull dozing on the employees, what is the company doing to grow and make life better.
layoffs, forcing people to do mundane work, no innovation, what more?


Stock take & conspiracy theory

Oracle stock blasting off makes no sense. Yeah, the $455B RPO number is huge, but at the end of the day those are just cloud contracts. You know the cost of servers, you know the markup — margins are fixed. A bump was fair once the number went public, but “to the moon” is pure hype.

And really, is OCI suddenly the backbone of AI forever? Training demand might look endless on paper, but inference is a different beast. Betting everything on infinite training cycles feels a lot like Sun Microsystems right before the dot-com bubble popped.

Conspiracy theory: it almost makes more sense if Oracle’s endgame is to split in two — legacy gets run as a lean cash cow, while shiny OCI+AI is set free to chase a PE ratio as inflated as Larry Ellison’s net worth. If someone scoops up the legacy side, they’d basically crown themselves undisputed king of enterprise software overnight.