asset stripping
Selling off pieces
Asset stripping is the practice of buying a company and selling off its assets—property, equipment, divisions—for profit rather than continuing operations.
The term carries negative connotations, suggesting the buyer extracts value while gutting what made the company viable: Corporate raiders made fortunes through asset stripping in the 1980s.
- corporate raiderHostile acquisition specialist
- bankruptcy fraudCriminal concealment during insolvency
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- shell companiesLegally registered but inactive businesses
- divestitureDisposal of assets
hollowing · smash and grab · misappropriation · carcass · receivership · vulture · corporate restructuring · raider · short-termism · management buyout · leveraged · plunder · selloff · cash cow · bleeding dry · buyout · bankruptcy · dividends
- financial fraudsecurities fraud, bank fraud, accounting fraud, defalcation, embezzler
- predatory financevulture capitalism, corporate raiders, predatory lending, loan sharks, payday loans
- capitalism critiqueanti-capitalism, wealth inequality, income inequality, wealth gap, income gap
- financebank, CFO, banks, controller, finance
- corruptioncorruption, graft, kickbacks, bribery, bribes
- plunderlooting, loot, booty, pillaging, spoils
asset strippingcapital investment
Funds for durable assets
reinvestment · business development · organic growth · capital expenditure · infrastructure investment
asset strippinglong-termism
Prioritizing far-future welfare
value investing · impact investing · corporate social responsibility · employee ownership · triple bottom line
asset strippinglong-term investment
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