ANALYSIS: Activists in Tech, Real Estate Lead in Q1 Campaigns

Spinning the focus from targets to activists, the first quarter of 2021 had a noted front-runner in the race to gobble up value: Las Vegas-based holding company Ault Global Holdings Inc. topped the list of activist investors by number of campaigns with six, based on data from the Bloomberg Terminal. And spinning the globe, keeping an eye on foreign investors might illuminate additional stress factors in sectors already challenged by the economic impact of the pandemic.

Ault invests in companies it considers to be undervalued or underperforming in the technology, defense, aerospace, telecom, medical, crypto-mining, hospitality, textile and corporate lending ...