Turnaround

165 tickers in this investment thesis
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Compass, Inc.
COMP·Real Estate
B ★★★Hold
Current$12.70
Target$17.56
Return+38.3%
Aug 13, 2026

Compass has successfully integrated Anywhere Real Estate to build an undisputed, technology-powered monopoly in U.S. residential brokerage that is trading at a steep discount to its future free cash flow.

Score
77
Vornado Realty Trust
VNO·Real Estate
B ★★★Hold
Current$38.89
Target$42.83
Return+10.1%
Aug 12, 2026

Vornado is successfully executing a masterful, cash-gushing turnaround of its premium Manhattan portfolio—highlighted by the massive Citadel joint venture—but its stretched public multiples relative to peers demand patience before allocating fresh capital.

Score
76
The Macerich Company
MAC·Real Estate
B ★★★Hold
Current$24.29
Target$27.90
Return+14.9%
Aug 12, 2026

Macerich is executing a masterful structural turnaround by deleveraging and re-tenanting top-tier malls, but prospective investors must remain extremely cautious regarding the crushing dilutive impact of its necessary capital raises and persistent high interest rates.

Score
76
UGI Corporation
UGI·Utilities
B ★★★Hold
Current$33.99
Target$41.30
Return+21.5%
Aug 12, 2026

While UGI offers a massive, highly discounted safety margin underpinned by a robustly growing, cash-generating regulated utility network, investors must remain sidelined until management permanently arrests the structural customer attrition devouring its AmeriGas propane division.

Score
75
CAE Inc.
CAE·Industrials
B ★★★Hold
Current$27.17
Target$32.05
Return+18.0%
Aug 12, 2026

CAE holds a monopoly-like position in civil flight simulation driven by secular pilot shortages, but investors must remain vigilant regarding the execution of its critical defense turnaround and the transition to a new CEO.

Score
76
Lincoln National Corporation
LNC·Financials
B ★★★Hold
Current$45.68
Target$54.88
Return+20.1%
Aug 12, 2026

Lincoln National is successfully pivoting toward capital-light products and aggressively derisking its balance sheet through massive reinsurance deals, trading at a steeply discounted valuation, though investors must remain cautious of negative operating cash flows and latent exposure to commercial real estate.

Score
76
Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.
CRL·Healthcare
B ★★★Hold
Current$267.49
Target$281.03
Return+5.1%
Aug 11, 2026

Charles River remains the irreplaceable, wide-moat tollbooth for global preclinical drug development, currently executing a fierce margin-expansion turnaround under activist oversight, though investors must tolerate lingering regulatory overhangs regarding its critical animal supply chains.

Score
76
Elanco Animal Health Incorporated
ELAN·Healthcare
A ★★★★Buy
Current$22.12
Target$30.00
Return+35.6%
Aug 11, 2026

Elanco is a rapidly deleveraging, deeply undervalued animal health powerhouse driving a massive margin expansion cycle via its new blockbuster dermatology and livestock portfolio, though investors must closely monitor veterinarian adoption of Zenrelia amidst its highly restrictive FDA vaccine warning.

Score
93
Driven Brands Holdings Inc.
DRVN·Consumer Discretionary
B ★★★Hold
Current$13.33
Target$17.50
Return+31.3%
Aug 10, 2026

Driven Brands is a highly cash-generative, recession-resistant automotive consolidator trading at a deeply distressed valuation due to a largely resolved accounting scandal, though investors must tolerate lingering litigation overhangs and near-term macroeconomic pressure on consumer traffic.

Score
77
Americold Realty Trust, Inc.
COLD·Real Estate
A ★★★★Buy
Current$14.96
Target$19.35
Return+29.3%
Aug 10, 2026

Americold is an irreplaceable, high-yield infrastructure titan currently trading at a distressed 11.6x P/AFFO multiple, offering massive upside as an impending $1.1 billion joint venture radically deleverages the balance sheet and activist pressure forces vital corporate governance reform.

Score
85
AXIA Energia SA
AXIA·Utilities
A ★★★★Buy
Current$10.50
Target$14.44
Return+37.5%
Aug 10, 2026

AXIA Energia is an unassailable infrastructural monopoly generating explosive free cash flow as it pivots to unregulated free-market pricing, offering deep undervaluation and a massive dividend, though investors must tolerate inherent Brazilian hydrological and interest rate volatility.

Score
89
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
HMC·Consumer Discretionary
B ★★★Hold
Current$31.82
Target$38.45
Return+20.8%
Aug 9, 2026

Honda is executing a ruthless, pragmatic turnaround by absorbing massive EV impairments to double down on its highly profitable, wide-moat motorcycle business and surging hybrid auto demand, creating an extreme deep-value dislocation trading at half its intrinsic book value.

Score
81