Institutional ticker directory tracking stock mentions, long/short ideas, and high-conviction pitches extracted from quarterly hedge fund letters.
| Ticker | Company | Sector | Industry | Pitches | Stance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fund / Manager | Thesis Excerpt | Stance | Period / Date | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Elliott Management Marc Steinberg & Jesse Cohn | “Northern Star is a top-10 global gold miner by production. NST owns a high-quality portfolio of gold mines in Western Australia and Alaska. Following the 2021 merger with Saracen, NST is the largest ASX primary-listed gold miner and the largest gold miner in Australia. Northern Star should be a world-class gold miner and offers significant upside, but has deeply underperformed its potential. 203% total return underperformance vs. Peers over last three years. Lowest P/NAV and EBITDA multiples of any peer. Repeated operational missteps. Missed guidance seven times in the past four financial years, including four separate guidance reductions in the first three months of 2026. Deeply inadequate disclosures compared to global senior peers, including no public detailed technical reports to support multi-billion-dollar capital investments. KCGM, Hemi, and Pogo are highly valuable, world-class assets. These great mines deserve to be run by a best-in-class leadership team capable of unlocking their full potential and maintaining mining excellence in Western Australia. The market views Northern Star as a poor operator with a pattern of operational missteps and repeated failures to execute capital projects on time and on budget. Protracted difficulties at the KCGM mill call into question management's ability to execute the ramp-up and, beyond that, to develop the Hemi project. Northern Star's capital allocation has been inconsistent and reactive, leaving investors without a clear framework for how value will be created. The result is a valuation that materially understates the quality of Northern Star's underlying assets. Leadership must move decisively to close this gap. Northern Star owes it to its shareholders to promptly explore all strategic alternatives, including a sale of the Company. We believe there would be significant strategic interest in Northern Star. Northern Star should prioritise hiring a world-class external CEO with deep operational and turnaround experience to rectify the issues across the portfolio. The new CEO and Board should announce a comprehensive operational review to ensure that the Company has the right people and strategy to improve planning and execution.” | NEUTRAL | Q2 2026 Aug 10, 2026 | View Pitch |
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