News Corp. Activist Investor Calls Potential Merger With Fox A Bad Idea, Suggests Others Ways To Maximize Value “For All Shareholders”
Irenic Capital, which owns about 2% of News Corp. has taken issue with its potential merger with Fox, noting the latter’s advertising exposure and legal exposure. A combination would create a more complex company and turn off investors, instead of boosting the company’s lagging stock price, it said in a letter to the News Corp. board, suggesting, instead, a spinoff of the digital real estate business or of Dow Jones.