Texas Pacific Land plunges after CEO of top shareholder Horizon Kinetics dies
Texas Pacific Land (TPL) closed down 15.6% to a two-month low on Thursday following news that Murray Stahl, CEO of Horizon Kinetics Holding (HKHC) and a Texas Pacific board member, died suddenly on April 7.
Horizon owns ~15% of Texas Pacific’s (TPL) outstanding shares, making it the energy real estate operating company's largest shareholder, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
"Horizon Kinetics, along with its predecessors, had been TPL's largest shareholder for many decades. Murray believed in the company when it was still a thinly traded, little-known trust that simply owned some land in west Texas," Texas Pacific (TPL) CEO Ty Glover said.
LandBridge (LB), another Horizon holding, slumped 7% on Thursday, but shares of WaterBridge Infrastructure (WBI), another large Horizon holding according to data compiled by Bloomberg, fell only 0.2%; Horizon Kinetics (HKHC) shares plunged 12.7%.