Altai Capital Management Announces Intention to Nominate Two Highly-Qualified Candidates for Election to OraSure Board of Directors
Issues Letter Outlining Company’s Failure to Deliver Value to Shareholders
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The intention to nominate these candidates comes in response to OraSure’s significant share price underperformance driven by poor strategic and capital allocation decisions and the Board’s refusal to consider alternative strategies for value creation. As long-term shareholders motivated to drive change, Altai believes these candidates would bring valuable expertise and shareholder perspective that the Board currently lacks.
The letter outlines the Company’s underperformance due to poor execution by management and the Board, including:
- Failure to successfully turn around the Company’s core product segments in the midst of Covid-19 windfall revenue winding down.
- Repeated ill-timed, venture-like investments in failing, subscale and/or unprofitable companies.
- Continued ineffective cash deployment with no tangible return on the horizon, squandering 25% of the Company’s cash and equivalents since 2023 while quarterly revenue (excluding Covid-19 products) has declined over 20% in the same time frame.
The full text of the letter can be found here.
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