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callout villain critique

"It is misleading to combine M&S with refining results when convenient to show higher EBITDA/bbl, but then exclude M&S when including it would show that opex/bbl is significantly higher than peers"

Phillips 66 · PSX Carl Icahn · p. 18
callout valuation reveal

"Globant’s lack of cash flow generation from its core operations, decelerating organic growth, and potentially misleading claims by management are all reflected in our choice of its multiple range"

Globant SA · GLOB Spruce Point Capital · p. 37
callout villain critique

"It is misleading to combine M&S with refining results when convenient to show higher EBITDA/bbl, but then exclude M&S when including it would show that opex/bbl is significantly higher than peers"

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 17
callout villain critique

"The proxy advisors highlight troubling governance practices at Phillips 66, including selective or misleading communications and a leadership structure that prevents proper Board oversight."

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 20
callout villain critique

"We believe TFS intentionally uses misleading statements, biased research and seriously questionable accounting practices to inflate the value of both the sandalwood and the company itself."

Quintis Limited · QIN Viceroy Research · p. 4
quote villain critique

"In conversations with investors, Dr. Kleinfeld insisted that Arconic/Alcoa had never shared its utilization figures and, further that utilization was an unimportant and misleading metric."

Arconic Inc. · ARNC Elliott Management · p. 150
callout villain critique

"We believe that in recent years, Nidec misleadingly and artificially boosted its reported profitability and growth in profits through highly questionable write-offs it took in FY 2012."

Nidec Corp. · 6594 JP Muddy Waters · p. 9
callout villain critique

"AtriCure's contentions regarding the addressable patient population and penetration rates are so inflated, it's hard to believe the company is not intentionally misleading investors."

AtriCure, Inc. · ATRC Kerrisdale Capital · p. 5
callout villain critique

"We believe that XL’s high customer attrition rate stems from XL’s lack of engineering edge, its misleading efficiency claims, and its substantial issues with regulatory approval."

XL Fleet Corp · XL Muddy Waters · p. 11
callout villain critique

"IonQ’s trapped-ion technology is doomed by “pernicious” error rates, a key performance metric and fatal flaw in contrast to misleading benchmarks that portray errors as low."

IonQ Inc. · IONQ Scorpion Capital · p. 99
callout timeline

"attempt to do so, in our view, is because we caught management red-handed and they are sophisticated enough to know that misleading us further could increase their exposure."

SoFi Technologies · SOFI Muddy Waters · p. 2
callout villain critique

"The insinuation that Elliott attempted to have multiple conversations with Mr. Pease to coerce him into carrying out an Elliott agenda is false and deliberately misleading."

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 19
callout villain critique

"Norfolk Southern's April 2, 2024, statement to shareholders that "John [Orr] shaped and guided PSR initiatives at KCS" is a brazenly misleading interpretation of the facts."

callout villain critique

"This creates the misleading impression that the cycle life trend is flat – that is, battery life is stable and barely degrades over time, under low temperature conditions"

QuantumScape · QS Scorpion Capital · p. 24
callout villain critique

"This creates the misleading impression that the cycle life trend is flat – that is, battery life is stable and barely degrades over time, under low temperature conditions"

QuantumScape · QS Scorpion Capital · p. 109
callout villain critique

"Nidec's auditor probably offers little safeguard against misleading accounts - in our opinion, Nidec's auditor is to audit failures what Michael Jordan was to basketball."

Nidec Corp. · 6594 JP Muddy Waters · p. 3
callout executive summary

"Burford's 2019 financials use reclassification, redefinition to inflate cash receipts, operating profit, and to otherwise present a misleading picture of the business."

Burford Capital · BUR Muddy Waters · p. 2
callout kpi overview

"Although CoreWeave’s reported revenue concentration from Microsoft will decline once newly signed agreements with OpenAI begin contributing, this shift is misleading."

CoreWeave, Inc. · CRWV Kerrisdale Capital · p. 13
callout villain critique

"Adding multiple different demos together to create the impression the design can accomplish all capabilities simultaneously is both misleading and disingenuous."

Archer Aviation Inc · ACHR Grizzly Research · p. 25
quote villain critique

"Defendant Victor Lee (“V. Lee”) is Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Leadis. V. Lee signed the false and misleading Registration Statement. — Litigation"

Monolithic Power Systems · MPWR Spruce Point Capital · p. 83
callout villain critique

"The substantial revision of the Compensation Statement constitutes an admission that the 2004-2012 versions of the Compensation Statement were misleading."

Herbalife Ltd. · HLF Pershing Square · p. 13
callout villain critique

"In our view, BUR investors are effectively paying a roughly 9% fund expense ratio. We believe that return metrics excluding these expenses are misleading."

Burford Capital Ltd. · BUR LN Muddy Waters · p. 14
callout ceo quote

"Phillips 66's misleading claims of success on its 2022 targets echo the Board's and previous CEO's failure to hit the AdvantEdge66 cost savings target."

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 50
callout ceo quote

"Uses a misleading start point for TSR which is flattered by >50% of relative TSR underperformance driven by poor operations while Lashier’s was COO"

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 94
callout ceo quote

"Uses a misleading start point for TSR which is flattered by >50% of relative TSR underperformance driven by poor operations while Lashier’s was COO"

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 27
callout ceo quote

"Fiction: Management Has Been Telling Potentially Misleading Information About The SD&A Business, Claiming Everything Is Ahead of Plan And On Target"

Leidos Holdings, Inc. · LDOS Spruce Point Capital · p. 15
callout villain critique

"This gives the misleading appearance of a capital liteness to FTAI's AP's business. In fact, the company has simply allocated the costs to Leasing."

FTAI Aviation Ltd. · FTAI Muddy Waters · p. 36
callout other

"The NEOD001 “Best Response Analysis” is misleading in our view as to efficacy, and we further believe it has led to undue optimism about the drug."

Prothena Corp PLC · PRTA Muddy Waters · p. 3
callout other

"The NEO001 “Best Response Analysis” is misleading in our view as to efficacy, and we further believe it has led to undue optimism about the drug."

Prothena Corp PLC · PRTA Muddy Waters · p. 8
callout villain critique

"Herbalife’s restatement of “Active New Members” calls into question the company’s veracity and highlights its misleading statements to investors"

callout ceo quote

"In our opinion, Ströer not disclosing the failure of this pillar of its digital strategy, and not impairing Ballroom is egregiously misleading."

Ströer SE & Co. KGaA · SAX Muddy Waters · p. 35
callout villain critique

"Meanwhile, HLF senior distributors continue to peddle false and misleading income representations in violation of the FTC Settlement Agreement"

Unknown · p. 32
callout villain critique

"Meanwhile, HLF senior distributors continue to peddle false and misleading income representations in violation of the FTC Settlement Agreement"

Unknown · p. 33
callout villain critique

"Meanwhile, HLF senior distributors continue to peddle false and misleading income representations in violation of the FTC Settlement Agreement"

Unknown · p. 34
callout villain critique

"Meanwhile, HLF senior distributors continue to peddle false and misleading income representations in violation of the FTC Settlement Agreement"

Herbalife · HLF Pershing Square · p. 32
callout villain critique

"Meanwhile, HLF senior distributors continue to peddle false and misleading income representations in violation of the FTC Settlement Agreement"

Herbalife · HLF Pershing Square · p. 34
callout villain critique

"Meanwhile, HLF senior distributors continue to peddle false and misleading income representations in violation of the FTC Settlement Agreement"

Herbalife · HLF Pershing Square · p. 33
quote thesis headline

"enforce sanctions to deter businesses that try to benefit from fake reviews and sanction those that write fake or misleading reviews. — Google"

Trustpilot Group PLC · TRST Grizzly Research · p. 4
callout section divider

"Fairfax Spent Cash for Accounting Gimmicks on Disposal of a Loss-Making Subsidiary that Misleadingly Preserved Book Value of $105.5 Million."

callout villain critique

"We've reported GreenPower to the SEC for making this statement. It is a false and misleading statement, which is a securities law violation."

GreenPower Motor Company · GP White Diamond Research · p. 3
callout villain critique

"In 2023, the Berlin Regional Court ruled against HelloFresh following complaints about misleading marketing of "climate-neutral" meal kits."

HelloFresh SE · HFG Grizzly Research · p. 19
callout villain critique

"Is Casino unaware of these errors; or, is Casino so intent on misleading investors that it failed to adequately caveat its defense of S&P?"

Groupe Casino · CO Muddy Waters · p. 8
callout other

"Limiting a study to n=3 such participants suggests an attempt to cherry-pick and present misleading data that understates the variability."

Harmony Biosciences Holdings · HRMY Scorpion Capital · p. 144
callout timeline

"We believe that Kao is either misleading shareholders today, or it misled Oasis in November. Either way, this is clearly poor governance."

Kao Corporation · 4452 Oasis Management · p. 3
callout other

"Vivion's specific rebuttal to rent24's significance at Fürst illustrates how misleading Vivion's responses about rent24's occupancy are."

Vivion Investments Muddy Waters · p. 6
callout villain critique

"Regularly put forward misleading statements which disingenuously claim that performance has been excellent and goals have been achieved"

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 17
quote cover

"We are concerned the Company is perpetuating a misleading narrative that “all is well” at Autodesk in order to maintain the status quo."

Autodesk, Inc. · ADSK Starboard Value · p. 1
callout villain critique

"DNMR presents Novomer as not just being a low-CapEx project but one with low production costs as well, which we believe is misleading."

Danimer Scientific · DNMR Muddy Waters · p. 16
callout villain critique

"These statements are materially false and misleading. The vast majority of Herbalife distributors make far less than the minimum wage."

Herbalife Ltd. · HLF Pershing Square · p. 15
callout villain critique

"We think it is misleading for RILY not to write down the intangible assets of these companies as they become more and more obsolete."

B. Riley Financial, Inc. · RILY Wolfpack Research · p. 13
callout villain critique

"In order to manufacture outperformance, the Company needs to assume both 1) an incorrect peer group and 2) a misleading timeframe"

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 95
callout ceo quote

"In order to manufacture outperformance, the Company needs to assume both 1) an incorrect peer group and 2) a misleading timeframe"

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 28
callout ceo quote

"In order to manufacture outperformance, the Company needs to assume both 1) an incorrect peer group and 2) a misleading timeframe"

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 96
callout ceo quote

"In order to manufacture outperformance, the Company needs to assume both 1) an incorrect peer group and 2) a misleading timeframe"

Phillips 66 · PSX Elliott Management · p. 27
callout villain critique

"Solid state battery experts and former employees call the data fake, misleading, or a “shell game,” and outline 4 red flags."

QuantumScape · QS Scorpion Capital · p. 89