More than 500 companies have been publicly subjected to activist demands worldwide so far in 2019, according to Activist Insight Online, although that is down from 619 in 2018’s record-breaking start to the year.
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A few more data points worth noting from our May month-end stats:
- The number of companies publicly subjected to activist demands worldwide continued to fall below last year’s pace, with the difference year-to-date at 14.9%, compared to 13.7% a month ago. However, the U.S., Canada, and Asia are all down proportionately less year-to-date than they were a month ago.
- So far this year, financial sector companies have accounted for 20.7% of all companies publicly subjected to activist demands, up from 19.4% in the same period last year.
- Although activists gained 27 board seats at U.S. companies in May, the total year-to-date is still down 22.7% on the first five months of 2018.
- Board-related activism has accounted for a larger relative share of the public demands made so far in 2019, with business strategy, and governance demands declining the most proportionately.
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