{"id":4054,"date":"2026-05-16T07:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/16\/activist-investor-starboard-value-bets-big-on-consumer-sector-with-new-stakes-in-lamb-weston-and-carmax\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:19:16","slug":"activist-investor-starboard-value-bets-big-on-consumer-sector-with-new-stakes-in-lamb-weston-and-carmax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/16\/activist-investor-starboard-value-bets-big-on-consumer-sector-with-new-stakes-in-lamb-weston-and-carmax\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist Investor Starboard Value Bets Big on Consumer Sector with New Stakes in Lamb Weston and Carmax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activist hedge fund Starboard Value has disclosed new, approximately $258 million stakes in food processor Lamb Weston and used auto retailer Carmax as of March 31. While both consumer stocks saw gains in Q1, their year-to-date performance has diverged, with Lamb Weston up over 5% and Carmax down more than 4% in 2026. These new positions place them among Starboard&#8217;s top holdings, alongside an increased stake in bitcoin miner Riot Platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist hedge fund Starboard Value has disclosed new, approximately $258 million stakes in food processor Lamb Weston and used auto retailer Carmax as of March 31. While both consumer stocks saw gains in Q1, their year-to-date performance has diverged, with Lamb Weston up over 5% and Carmax down more than 4% in 2026. These new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108292105-1776286047952-gettyimages-2271509836-dji_20260415114049_0077_d_xgbskxol.jpeg?v=1776286087&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","rifnote_executive-carmax-used-auto-retailer","rifnote_executive-lamb-weston-food-processing-company","rifnote_executive-riot-platforms-bitcoin-mining-company","rifnote_executive-starboard-value-hedge-fund"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108292105-1776286047952-gettyimages-2271509836-dji_20260415114049_0077_d_xgbskxol.jpeg?v=1776286087&w=1920&h=1080","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}