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“Our biggest valuation error was assigning too much value to the so-called “platform value” in certain of our holdings.”

Bill Ackman, Pershing Square letter author January 2016 Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Annual Investor Letter (2015 letter) (GuruFocus)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Pershing Square's biggest valuation error was assigning too much value to 'platform value' in certain holdings.

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Reasoning

What Pershing considered its biggest valuation error is its own internal assessment.

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Bill Ackman, “Pershing Square's biggest valuation error was assigning too much value to 'platform value' in certain holdings.” (said January 2016). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_5cee2d4449dd, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_5cee2d4449dd

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