Friday, September 18, 2026

This Week in Special Situations: Cooper Companies, Sturm Ruger, Grab Holdings, Boston Omaha

Special-situations survey flags Cooper’s $3 billion buyback, Grab’s $900 million repurchase, and Beretta’s $44.80 partial tender for Sturm Ruger.

RGR $675M

Latticework by MOI Global Sep 18 1 click

Sep 13 ZTEKF $65M

Initiation Report

Atrium Research - Equity Research 4 clicks

Sep 11 GRPN $868M

The Groupon Turnaround — Dušan Šenkypl & Rana Kashyap | Ep. 3

Mispriced Assets 5 clicks

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@DeepSailCapital Sep 18 1 click

Deep Sail Capital on X

@LogicalThesis $MXCT ?

@Mike10947310 Sep 18 1 click

Mike on X

@CapstackCapital Did you catch $FTEK CEO’s presentation? Quite strong, they expect to add more wins to backlog by EOY.

@orrdavid Sep 18 2 clicks

David Orr on X

I see this a lot in the investing business. For example, the young fiery aggressive fund managers of the 1990s, who called out dishonest bad management, are now behaving like the companies they used to vicisouly attack. Stuff like $GLRE or $HHH.

@BrokenMoats Sep 18 1 click

Broken Moats on X

Could see $JACK, $WEN, $PZZA all go bankrupt. Probably others across the QSR space (subway, Pizza Hut some of the more challenged private operators) -- to be fair some of these could get acquired too but interesting how that would play through commercial real estate and impact the non distressed survivors -- very challenging space with prices having soared (affordability) and consumers pushing back or finding better/comparable value at a Chili's etc. Freight costs (diesel and trucker shortage from policy moves) and food costs that are/will escalate (freight and commodities) is going to bring new challenges to margins. Menu prices likely need to reset lower across many of these chains but that is a very difficult process for owners and franchises to accomplish especially while input costs continue to rise. GLP1s hurt overall volume trends as well but......look out to automation/robotics in store and how trends tend to switch back to QSR/fast food in a more stressed economic condition there might be select opportunities in the coming months for a few players as prices have/are resetting fast across tis space

@catechwilliams Sep 18 1 click

catechwilliams on X

$JELD 12x levered facing insurmountable near-term debt maturities. Engaged advisors to sell assets to stem insolvency. Longshot odds given accelerating deterioration in end-markets and rising input costs. Setting up for a Q4 bankruptcy.

@leevalueroach Sep 18 1 click

Lee Roach on X

I continue to view $EVC as severely mispriced here. Market is completely missing the big picture. https://t.co/T1vGykkx1F

@eriksen_tim Sep 18 1 click

Tim Eriksen on X

@majgeoinvesting $ACFN is Acorn Energy not Acorn Financial.

@stockgutter Sep 18

SG on X

$FOA has lost about 50% in the past 2 months. I have not followed closely since selling (at a loss) a while ago. Any good writeups on the current situation? https://t.co/af4l42xmfd