Citi’s Advice to a Slumping Sculptor: Put Yourself Up for Sale

The investment bank says that a sale could nearly triple value of the multistrategy giant’s shares.

Sculptor Capital headquarters in New York. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Sculptor Capital headquarters in New York.

(Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Sculptor Capital Management’s stock has plunged close to its all-time low, and analysts at Citi Research believe the multistrategy giant’s best way to maximize its valuation may be to put itself up for sale.

In a 19-page report dated February 18 and obtained by Institutional Investor, the investment bank offered four ideas to help boost the slumping shares of one of the only publicly traded hedge fund firms, and said it was leaning toward two of them.

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