Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, talking at the Delivering Alpha meeting in New York City onSept 28, 2023.
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Universal Music Group, home to celebrities consisting of Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Drake, will certainly relocate its main stock market detailing to the United States from the Netherlands complying with antisemitic strikes in Amsterdam today, billionaire Bill Ackman claimed Friday.
Ackman wrote on X that Universal, with a market price of some $46 billion, “trades at a large discount to its intrinsic value with limited liquidity in significant part due to it not having its primary listing” on the Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange.
The Pershing Square owner and previous investor protestor likewise claimed he would certainly look for to relist his openly traded Pershing Square Holdings from the Euronext exchange in Amsterdam to the London Stock Exchange.
“Events in Amsterdam during the last 24 hours provide an appropriate tipping point for this conclusion,” Ackman composed.
Officials in Amsterdam banned demonstrations for three days on Friday after over night strikes on Israeli football fans by what the mayor called “antisemitic hit-and-run squads,” and Israel claimed it would fly several followers home, Reuters reported.
Mayor Femke Halsema claimed Israeli football followers had actually been “attacked, abused and pelted with fireworks” around the city. At the very least 5 individuals were dealt with for injuries, and 64 detained.
Ackman and Pershing Square have uncommon advantages at Universal Music Group that enable him to require the relisting, files reveal. UMG was drawn out of Vivendi in 2021. Ackman obtained a 10% risk in UMG as component of that offshoot and stays the firm’s biggest investor.
UMG shares have actually continued to be mainly unmodified considering that the offshoot, which Ackman partially credits to the firm’s ineligibility from the S&P 500 and various other united state market indexes.
Pershing Square has a legal right to require a relisting, UMG’s syllabus programs. The firm has 120 days to submit an official enrollment with the Securities and Exchange Commission from the day of Pershing’s relisting need, according to the syllabus. Ackman showed in his social networks message that Pershing Square had actually not yet worked out that right.
A rep for Ackman did not instantly comment. Universal Music Group did not instantly reply to an ask for remark.
