On Monday, Beach Inlet Capital Management put Atlanta Braves Holdings in its sights and made its case plain: sell the team.
The investment firm sent a letter to the Board of Directors of Atlanta Braves Holdings, Inc. and publicly disclosed it, pressing the publicly traded company that owns the Braves to explore a sale of the ballclub. Beach Inlet is taking the kind of approach known in corporate circles as activist investing, where a shareholder buys into a company and then pushes management to take a specific action. If the company resists, the activist can try to rally other shareholders behind the effort.
That tactic has a long track record. In 1989, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. - better known as KKR - won control of RJR Nabisco in a famous bidding war, outlasting management and taking the company private in a leveraged buyout. KKR is one of the biggest private equity firms in the business, but activist campaigns do not have to come from giants.
Engine No. 1 proved that in 2021, when the small hedge fund won seats on ExxonMobil’s board and pushed the energy company to broaden its focus to include low-carbon energy. It did that despite holding only a tiny stake, valued at $40-$50 million and about 0.02% of shares outstanding, by persuading other shareholders to back its proposals.
Beach Inlet is aiming for a similar result with Atlanta Braves Holdings: force management to put the team on the market. Whether that campaign gains traction is the question now hanging over the club.
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