#shareholder

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

https://www.bcbstx.com/docs/forms/group/tx/grp-proxy-tx.pdf

If you’re a shareholder wondering where all the revenue is going, you should examine the org chart.

Too many chiefs, not enough workers. Anyone else notice the surplus of VPs, directors, and senior market VAS managers—often stacked two or three deep for the same function? Hertz is throwing away over $10 M a year in combined salaries so a handful of people can “manage” 2–3 capable employees. Meanwhile, the frontline is breaking their backs with shrinking fleets, fewer managers, and less staff support—without even a cost-of-living raise. It’s insulting. Back of house is running around putting out fires with little to no staff with very limited OT to pay all the chiefs. This is not a depiction or example of LEAN staffing.

Yet the company is more than willing to hand out six-figure checks for roles that add little to no real value.

At Dell Technologies, we lack good leadership. Instead of transparency, we see random layoffs, no coherent strategy, and no confidence instilled in employees or shareholders. Leadership is not about hiding behind tough decisions.. it’s about owning them, communicating them, and guiding people through them.

The difference between courage and cowardice is clarity.

How does this help us? Good people let go! Can’t get an account open in a week so let’s move the problem over here. I don’t think that will help. It’s all a mess. I think this makes it worse. Upper management doing something to justify their jobs and take big bonuses while ki-ling shareholder value. This place is great.

I just hope someone posts the decision purely driven by shareholder returns, what a shameful way to ruin a great Canadian company

Congrats to the management team in Australia, Retired and soon to be retired.

What a legacy to leave

Boards have one core job: protect shareholder value. Their role isn’t to be friends with management or the CEO — it’s to keep them accountable and make the tough calls when things go off track.

The problem comes when boards get too cozy with the CEO. They stop challenging decisions, ignore red flags, and let loyalty or personal relationships cloud their judgment. When that happens, no one is holding leadership accountable, and the company can spiral.

The result? A CEO unchecked, making bad calls, chasing ego-driven projects, and ultimately destroying shareholder value. By the time the board wakes up, it’s often too late — the company’s reputation is damaged, the stock is down, and the people who suffer most are the employees and investors who trusted them to do their job.

So why haven’t we seen any investors holding the board accountable for their failure. Didn’t they neglect their fiduciary responsibilities by causing up to Mark and allowing him to make horrible decisions that have seriously damaged the organization.

This company, like all healthcare companies, DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU! Their ONLY concern is how much money they can rake in! They are not here to serve their members, just their shareholders so Gail can make her $20 million +!

Buffalos are bold and strategic and would charge bravely with focus and determination into the approaching Elliott Management storm even though they probably won't survive it ! Be proactive like the Buffalo and face the challenge head on !

I hate stock buybacks. I think they are a sign that management has no idea what to do with their hard earned cash flow. In Chevron's case, cash flow created by prior leadership. I get the argument that if you can get a higher return from stock appreciation than the investment options, they make sense. However, when you have been buying back millions - may billions of dollars worth of stock and the stock price is middling, at best, what gives? Legacy projects create legacy cash flow - some, not all. Stock buybacks, by my read, have destroyed value because they have kept us from investing in, and worse, pursuing, legacy opportunities. What say you?

Is it worth learning a new skill that will get outdated in just for a year or two- certainly not worth the time,money, and health.
Shareholders are prospering while staff are ending in hospitals.

You only get one life. And when the realization hits—that you spent most of it working for a company with no real purpose, serving a cause that added no value—the regret can be overwhelming.

Most people will not wake up until it’s too late. You may not realize the cost of wasting your time, talent, and spirit in a manufactured corporate illusion until you are staring at the ceiling in your final days.

And in that silence, you might remember the beautiful world around you that you completely missed living in shadows of fake company culture:

the adventures you never took, the passions you silenced, the time you traded for titles, meetings, and made-up metrics that meant nothing.

EM sells you a culture—but it’s not real. It’s a carefully constructed façade of progress wrapped in ad-hoc slogans and shallow incentives.

Beneath it is a hollow system, where human potential is sacrificed daily for shareholder returns and surface-level prestige.

You may think you're winning—climbing the ladder, getting promotions, fitting into the mold. But the mold is the trap. And by the time you realize it, the real you will be long gone.

Choose carefully. Because no title, no paycheck, and no pension will ever give you back a life unlived.

All that matters in corporate America is shareholder value.

Employees are out!

Paramount Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ:PSKY) has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per share for both its Class A and Class B shares. The dividend will be paid on October 1, 2025, to shareholders of record as of September 15, 2025.

Just a friendly notification. UHG has spent over $11B in the last year on Stock buy backs. The prior period was $9.1B. Instead of giving us living wage raises, or a reasonable bonus. These a--hats see fit to spend company resources to prop up the stock price through repurchasing. This behavior only helps the investor class, and it ain't you with your 23 shares of UHN. It helps Hemsley, Rex, Witty, etc. This is done at your expense. At the expense of your benefits, wages and sanity.

AT the end of the month another buyback will be disclosed. I'm guessing one of the largest ever (buy the dip with your billions). Think of this when they fire your coworkers, your friends, and they stick you with a 1.5% raise and send an email expressing "gratitude" for your hard work and take away bonuses. They don't give two craps about you, they only exist to siphon your labor, sacrifice your sanity and profit off your sweat while they sit in their fancy estates diving all scrooge mcduck into their $60M compensation package.

Exxon Mobil Corp XOM recently reported in its 10-K filing that its global workforce decreased by 1,000 to 62,000 personnel in 2022. This was due to cost-cutting measures intended to increase shareholder returns. It was Exxon's third consecutive year of staff reduction, down from 75,000.

The company also forewarned of potential risks for its operations in Kazakhstan, a nation in central Asia that borders Russia by a distance of 7,644 kilometers (4,750 miles). ExxonMobil’s combined oil and gas output in Kazakhstan was 246,000 barrels last year, which were exported via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). According to the filing, Exxon may face an undeterminable loss in cash flow from its businesses in Kazakhstan if Russia interferes with the pipeline's functioning.

The U.S. oil giant, ExxonMobil, holds a 25% stake in the Tengizchevroil (TCO) oil production joint venture that manages the Tengiz and Korolev oil fields in Kazakhstan. The company also holds a 16.8% working interest in the Kashagan field. Per the filing, ExxonMobil's assets in Kazakhstan generated after-tax earnings of $2.5 billion in 2022.

I demand that all US taxpayers get steep discounts on all Intel products!

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/us-taxpayers-stake-intel-what-it-means-now-future-rcna226956

Same playbook happening this coming earnings report. New revitalisation exercises (cost cuttting actually) to reward shareholders, drive innovations (long dead decades ago). 10% cost cutting expected, mainly in the Print space. PC is undergoing massive challenges as well from lack of excitement in the "AI PC" space. Print is embarking into AI Print space as well (actually all BS, trying to stoke and ride the AI wave).

None, because they don't have a compromised CEO who gave up 10% of the company to keep his job.

Not that there is any direct correlation, but the last time Canon Global pulled this cr-p was the end of Q2, 2024. 8 days before the mass layoffs in Canon USA.

"On August 22, Canon announced the completion of a significant share repurchase: approximately 9.8 million shares were bought back for 42.95 billion yen through the Tokyo Stock Exchange's off-auction system (ToSTNeT-3) 1. While share buybacks are generally seen as a positive move to return value to shareholders, they can also raise concerns if investors interpret them as a signal that the company lacks better growth opportunities or if the buyback is perceived as poorly timed.

Additionally, sentiment analysis from MarketBeat shows that news coverage around Canon has been slightly negative over the past week, with a sentiment score of -0.35, below the average for manufacturing companies 2. This could be contributing to the downward pressure on the stock."

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4814798-chevron-q2-berkshire-hathaway-added-more-so-did-i

"It's not clear what an activist might be looking to do with PepsiCo (PEP), though they may want the company to split up or maybe the board may need an overhaul, Bilson speculated."

This is what lots of bad management gets you...I think it's pretty obvious to everyone what needs to be done with PEP...

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4486225-pepsico-under-spotlight-as-activist-target-after-13f-filings

Massive layoffs in November to pay for their $1 Billion share repurchase program? Or will it be your raise is so small it won't even get you a hamburger at the local restaurant. Would you like fries with that?

News article titled, 'Thomson Reuters Announces $1.0 Billion Share Repurchase Program.'