Articles tagged “starboard”

Get ready for sales of Viator and/or TheFork — or at least attempts to sell them. Alternately, you also can't rule out a sale or merger of the entire company.

Starboard Value will likely find plenty of support among Tripadvisor's long-suffering shareholders.

In 2014, when Viator was nearly 20 years old and struggling for an exit, Tripadvisor scooped it up for $200 million. Now it could be worth $2 billion.

An activist investor might be just what Tripadvisor needs now that its corporate structure has changed. Analysts have plenty of ideas on what that investor might advocate for, although so far Starboard Value hasn't publicly discussed a game plan.

To Papa John's credit, the company has been on the offensive this year, but positive same-store sales will likely not come until 2020.

Papa John's is fighting for cultural relevance, and it is doing so in every way imaginable. It's easily the greatest soap opera happening right now.