FactSet’s corporate activism database, FactSet SharkWatch, provides tools to monitor and analyze activist investors and their campaigns. SharkWatch continually searches through SEC filings and news sources for indications of significant activism in the industries that matter to you.

You can access FactSet SharkWatch through FactSet applications and the FactSet SharkRepellent.net website.

Dataset Features:

• Observe activist investors and the movements they take in terms of new stakes, increases, and decreases, as well as the percentage of shares held by a company’s activist investors and the number of activist investors with holdings in a company
• Learn more about individual investors, including biographical information, typical tactics, and 13Ds filed, and gain the insight you need to understand an investor’s history of activism
• Analyze trend data, research similar historical tactics, and profile what it took for the dissidents to settle. Build and compare company profiles detailing all activism against a specific company
• Query on specific terms such as campaign types, dissident tactics, activism types, meeting dates, proxy fight winners, and more