Raddraaier schreef op 27 oktober 2021 17:53:
Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC has taken a large stake in Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A +3.05% PLC and is urging the oil giant to separate into two companies to retain and attract investors as many flee stocks seen as environmentally unfriendly.
The activist’s stake is worth well over $500 million, making it one of the Anglo-Dutch company’s largest investors, people familiar with the matter said.
Third Point believes Shell should consider creating two stand-alone companies: one with legacy businesses such as refining that would provide steady cash flow and another that houses renewables and other units requiring substantial investment, it said in a letter to its investors Wednesday that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. It reasons that doing so would clarify the company’s strategy and appeal to different sets of investors who have been making competing demands of Shell.