• 12 Aug 2009 at 10:43 AM

Say It Isn’t So!

ackman3.jpgLooks like it is.

In an amended 13D filing, Bill Ackman’s hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management is now showing a 4.4% ownership stake in Target (TGT). This is down from their previous 7.8% ownership stake in the company. Pershing Square reduced their overall position through a combination of transactions including the sale of options and purchase of common stock. Originally, Ackman’s 7.8% stake was comprised of 3.3% in common stock and 4.5% in stock-settled call options. Now, Ackman’s reduced 4.4% stake is comprised of 3.5% worth of stock and 0.9% worth of options. They are now showing an aggregate amount of shares beneficially owned of 32,994,586.

This was our favorite come from behind tale. If Ackman drops it much further it will be a sad day indeed at the Dealbreaker offices.
(We love you, Bill! Call us!)

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Reduces Target (TGT) Position
[Market Folly]

Comments (22)

  1. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM

    First!

  2. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 10:51 AM

    Unfortunately, not the last.

  3. Posted by american bandersnatch | August 12, 2009 at 10:56 AM

    “our favorite come from behind tale”. ha ha

  4. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    [Dead fucking silence]

  5. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 11:06 AM

    @3 I’m sure that was unintentional. EP is too much of a prude to knowingly write stuff like that.

  6. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 11:07 AM

    Already mentioned in Opening Bell.
    -Cricket too pissed off to chirp

  7. Posted by NegativeConvexity | August 12, 2009 at 11:16 AM

    Ackman, you pussified choade-wad. Real men don’t choke up in tears over the vicissitudes of investing in retail.
    We gut it the fuck out, just like that lucky prick Eli Manning and his black swan win over the Pats. Manning bros. douches..
    -E. Lampert

  8. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 11:28 AM

    @7
    Real men don’t get kidnapped either.
    -PTJ II

  9. Posted by NakedShort | August 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM

    @8
    Real men don’t eat KFC
    -S. Cohen

  10. Posted by NegativeConvexity | August 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM

    @8,
    Real men sometimes get kidnapped by The Empire and frozen in carbon. Hey, shit happens..
    The main thing is to never walk in on a wookiee while he is throttling his meat blaster….
    -Han

  11. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 11:52 AM

    CNBC had this yesterday

  12. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 11:52 AM

    @9
    Damn right, Stevie!
    -Andrew Tong

  13. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 1:05 PM

    Prob buying up GGWPQ. Balls deep, no jimmy.

  14. Posted by Seaman Bodine II | August 12, 2009 at 1:08 PM

    Real men have sex dungeons and tunnels, and give their clients mega doses of X.
    HNIII

  15. Posted by Anal_yst | August 12, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    @14/Henry Nichols FTW, hands down

  16. Posted by Seaman Bodine II | August 12, 2009 at 1:57 PM

    Let Wiki decide:
    Cohen began collecting art in 2000, and over the past several years has become a prominent collector, appearing on Art News magazine’s “Top 10″ list of biggest-spending art collectors around the world each year since 2002,[13] and Forbes magazine’s “Top Billionaire Art Collectors” list in 2005.[14] To date, Cohen has bought around $700 million worth of artwork [8]; in 2003, the New York Times reported that in a 5 year period, Cohen spent 20% of his income at art auctions [9]. He is reportedly building a private museum for some of his artwork on his Greenwich property [10]. In the winter of 2005 it became known that in 1999 Cohen had bought Edvard Munch’s “Madonna”. Reportedly this was for $11.5 million, a record price for any Munch painting to this date.
    VS.
    In 2007, a construction team sued Nicholas, alleging he had failed to pay them for a proposed underground sex cave, where he could indulge his “manic obsession with prostitutes” and “addiction to cocaine and Ecstasy.” [33] The lair, in warehouse space near his home, allegedly had “hidden doors and secret levers, an underground grotto, tunnels and a 2,000-square-foot sports bar he called “Nick’s Cafe.” [33]

  17. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 2:06 PM

    SBII: The question is whether he eat any of them? Billionaires can get a little bored and crave for the finer things.

  18. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 2:26 PM

    Which one of the following is not like the others?
    a) a sex cave
    b) hidden doors and secret levers
    c) an underground grotto
    d) a sports bar called “Nick’s Cafe”
    If you forwent answering the question and concluded that Henry Nicholas is batshit insane, you are correct.

  19. Posted by Seaman Bodine II | August 12, 2009 at 2:38 PM

    @18
    wtf
    that shit makes perfect sense to me

  20. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 3:27 PM

    Anyone have first year sex-cave prostitute numbers?

  21. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 3:42 PM

    Nipular erection.

  22. Posted by guest | August 12, 2009 at 5:10 PM

    I like sex. Really I do.
    - Ben “d me over” Bernanke

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