2023 Blogs

Activist short Selling in 2023

Activist short Selling in 2023

Another year in the activist short-selling community is now in the books, and what a year it has been. The market environment is unchanged. The golden era of fraud seems …

Read More2023-12-29
2023: Year of Newcomer Activist Shorts

2023: Year of Newcomer Activist Shorts

2023 was a busy year for short activists. We saw plenty of household names release their take on over 120 stocks. However, we also noted many newcomers who were previously rather unknown …

Read More2023-12-29
2023: Hindenburg's Year

2023: Hindenburg's Year

We want to highlight Hindenburg Research’s activity this year outside our usual annual activist short-selling review. This is due to the prominence of the activist well outside the usual borders …

Read More2023-12-29
Most Popular Retail Stocks 2023

Most Popular Retail Stocks 2023

At the beginning of 2023, some might have thought that the retail hype was going to slow down as GameStop Corp. (GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. both showcased wild and …

Read More2023-12-21
Activist Shorts Weekly W44

Activist Shorts Weekly W44

This week, we have registered one new major short calls. Bleecker Street Research targeted this USD 0.7 billion company, PureCycle Technologies (PCT), due to allegations of failure to launch its commercial operations and issues …

Read More2023-11-03

Activist Shorts Weekly W43

This week, we have registered two new major short calls. Ragnarok seems to be settling in the activist space and continues to target small caps which are trying to use the AI hype …

Read More2023-10-27
Activist Shorts Weekly W39

Activist Shorts Weekly W39

This week, we have registered four new major short calls. GlassHouse hit us with another report featuring accounting allegations. This time it is a construction company with history of troubles with its shareholders and …

Read More2023-09-28
Activist Shorts Weekly W38

Activist Shorts Weekly W38

This week, we have registered three new major short calls. Perhaps most importantly we noticed Kerrisdale Capital with their new retail investors short. They targeted Tilray (TLRY) due to allegations of a weak business …

Read More2023-09-21
Activist Shorts Weekly W37

Activist Shorts Weekly W37

This week, we have registered one new major short call. We saw a newcomer release a report on ETSY, an e-commerce platform, apparently in deep trouble with the competition and other key business fundamentals. …

Read More2023-09-14
Activist Shorts Weekly W31

Activist Shorts Weekly W31

This week we have not registered any new major short calls. While there are no new reports, we have seen many updates to ongoing campaigns. We focus on Fuzzy's campaign against …

Read More2023-08-03