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Finally, there's the undeniable appeal of a company overflowing with cash, a tasty target for a campaign to initiate share buybacks or increase dividend payments. Which metric works best in identifying balance sheets that are attractive to activists? The ratio of a company's total cash relative to its market capitalization. The higher that ratio relative to one's peers, the more likely a company is to garner unwanted attention. When ValueAct Capital scored a seat on Microsoft's...

To Sell or Not to Sell, That Is the Question Most investors have to face loss aversion in their own investment portfolios when they incur losses. For long term investments the best course of action is to stay invested through the ups and downs of markets. But what if an investment is short term or has a limited investment horizon and the remaining time is shorter than the time needed to recover? Imagine that an investor has bought a specific stock with the intention of holding it...

Why Robots? Robots are present not only where strength or precision is needed. With shrinking farmland, growing populations and the need to increase food supplies, agriculture is another field likely to benefit from robot use, such as driverless tractors, drones, or swarm robots for the harvest season. They could cut costs and be suitable even for indoor farming. According to the "Agricultural Robots" report by Tractica, by 2024 annual shipments of these robots are likely to...