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▶ 0:00 · $WEN · The Trade That Put Bill Ackman on the Map: Forcing Wendy's to Spin Out Tim Hortons
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The Trade That Put Bill Ackman on the Map: Forcing Wendy's to Spin Out Tim Hortons

2026-06-16 · 1 company · 0 thematic
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bill ackman

Founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, a prominent activist hedge fund known for large, concentrated and often public campaigns.

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“Wendy's owned Tim Hortons... and the value of Tim Hortons was more than the entire value of Wendy's. We had this very simple idea, buy Wendy's, spin off Tim Hortons, double our money.”
—bill ackman
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Ackman recalls Wendy's as a classic sum-of-the-parts trade hiding Tim Hortons value
Ackman describes his early Wendy's investment as a simple sum-of-the-parts thesis: Tim Hortons alone was worth more than Wendy's entire market value, creating an activist spin-off…