Long Term Returns of ValueAct Capital’s 5 Activist Targets

3. Gartner Inc (NYSE:IT)

Quarter first owned: Q4 2001

Quarter sold: Q4 2011

Gartner Inc (NYSE:IT) is one of the most long-term investments of ValueAct Capital, the fund holding shares of the company for a period of around 10 years, seeing the stock nearly quadruple. Jeff Ubben himself was a board member at the technological research and consulting firm. During ValueAct’s involvement, Gartner group launched an acquisition streak that started with Meta Group which the company bought in 2005 and AMR Research, Inc. in 2009. Acquisitions continued after ValueAct’s departure and helped transform Gartner Inc (NYSE:IT) into one of the leading IT research and consultancy firms.