Daily Recap: STAA, HPE, EBAY/GME, GPRO, WW, SKX, CVS, PBH, FDXF/FDX

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Daily Recap: STAA, HPE, EBAY/GME, GPRO, WW, SKX, CVS, PBH, FDXF/FDX

GoPro, Inc. (GPRO - $1.09)

Retains Advisor to Pursue Strategic Alternatives Including Potential Sale; Follows Multiple

Unsolicited Inbound Inquiries. GPRO announced it has retained Houlihan Lokey as financial advisor

to evaluate a potential sale of the company and other strategic alternatives, with Fenwick & West

serving as legal counsel. The engagement follows GPRO's May 11 announcement that its Board

authorized a formal strategic process after receiving several unsolicited inbound inquiries from

parties across defense, consumer, and financial sectors. The inquiry wave was triggered by GPRO's

April 13 engagement of Oliver Wyman, a defense sector consulting firm, to explore expansion of its

camera technology into defense and aerospace markets. Founder/CEO Nicholas Woodman stated

GPRO has substantial unrecognized value that can be realized via a sale or other strategic event. On

the 1Q'26 earnings call (also May 11), Woodman confirmed his majority voting control will support

all shareholder value maximizing strategic alternatives, including a potential sale; this is significant

given GPRO's dual class share structure in which Class B shares (10 votes/share, controlled primarily

by Woodman) concentrate voting power with the founder. (Press Release)

TRADING VIEW: The sequence of events here is well orchestrated and signals genuine seller intent;

engaging Oliver Wyman to frame a defense narrative, then leveraging the resulting inbound interest

to justify a formal sale process with Houlihan Lokey is a textbook playbook for a founder controlled

company seeking to maximize sale optionality. Woodman's explicit commitment of his supervoting