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callout process diagram

"Tax-free spin-off of an active business that ground leases the land back to the Retailer"

Target Corporation · TGT Pershing Square · p. 19
callout sop buildup

"TIP REIT’s land development opportunity can be valued based on its growth platform value"

Target Corporation · TGT Pershing Square · p. 75
callout villain critique

"Announcing a 66% jump in payload capacity is not a trivial matter in rocket development."

Astra Space, Inc. · ASTR Kerrisdale Capital · p. 13
callout villain critique

"They said thirty, so maybe they only grew 25%, which would be about 9,200 new providers."

AerCap Holdings · AER Greenlight Capital · p. 73
callout sop buildup

"The Company needs to achieve higher revenue growth based on its R&D and M&A investments."

Pfizer Inc. · PFE Starboard Value · p. 69
callout transition

"Many commentators think that these high rates of return suggest the market is overvalued"

Pershing Square Holdings · PSH Pershing Square · p. 41
callout ceo quote

"We believe Lacuna Diagnostics is an insignificant player in the digital cytology market."

Heska Corporation · HSKA Spruce Point Capital · p. 78
callout villain critique

"Competitor color on Omnia’s lack of traction was consistent around the country: “a dud.”"

Nevro Corp. · NVRO Scorpion Capital · p. 143
callout executive summary

"ONP was not forthright with investors for over 16 months about not actually owning HBOP."

Orient Paper, Inc. · ONP Muddy Waters · p. 1
callout villain critique

"Spruce Point Believes Limbach Has Too Many Financial And Operational Red Flags To Ignore"

Limbach Holdings, Inc. · LMB Spruce Point Capital · p. 19
callout villain critique

"This ongoing pattern raises questions: what exactly is being restructured at this point?"

Limbach Holdings, Inc. · LMB Spruce Point Capital · p. 62
callout other

"There are four patterns of user joining that we believe show the user is actually a bot."

GSX Techedu Inc. · GSX Muddy Waters · p. 4
callout valuation reveal

"Based on the above, the Company’s Restaurants business is being ascribed negative value."

callout villain critique

"A shift to shorter useful lives would eviscerate CoreWeave's unit economics and margins."

CoreWeave, Inc. · CRWV Kerrisdale Capital · p. 11
callout villain critique

"Despite significant investment, we believe Patch has minimal revenue and massive losses."

AOL, Inc. · AOL Starboard Value · p. 28
callout other

"Does any of the foregoing sound like a truly penetrable market for space-based roaming??"

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. · ASTS Kerrisdale Capital · p. 14
callout villain critique

"Thus, it appears the forecasts produced in the 2011 report have proven overly optimistic"

iRobot Corp · IRBT Spruce Point Capital · p. 31
callout villain critique

"Upserve was a net loser with GTV falling to just $6bn by the time of LSPD's acquisition."

Lightspeed Commerce, Inc. · LSPD Spruce Point Capital · p. 86
callout sop buildup

"TIP REIT’s land development opportunity can be valued based on its growth platform value"

Target Corporation · TGT Pershing Square · p. 55
callout other

"Distributors are incentivized to recruit new participants rather than make retail sales:"

Herbalife Ltd. · HLF Pershing Square · p. 51
callout villain critique

"Only uses it because “it’s better than nothing” and is “absolutely not” a “wonder drug.”"

Harmony Biosciences Holdings · HRMY Scorpion Capital · p. 287
callout villain critique

"Note the last line which makes clear that "CoreCard Software is a client of UTS-Global"."

Intelligent Systems Corp · INS Grizzly Research · p. 18
callout cover

"In short, we believe NBEV got duped by buying a dying business with inflated financials."

New Age Beverage Corp. · NBEV Grizzly Research · p. 1
callout villain critique

"Obviously, there were multiple strong conflicts of interest that were blatantly ignored."

Trulieve Cannabis Corp · TRUL Grizzly Research · p. 8
callout cover

"In short, we believe NBEV got duped by buying a dying business with inflated financials."

New Age Beverage Corp. · NBEV Grizzly Research · p. 1
callout villain critique

"NBEV's CBD related licensing deal with the Marley brand has terribly economics for NBEV."

New Age Beverage Corp. · NBEV Grizzly Research · p. 20
callout villain critique

"Looking to the right of the chairs are school buses. Notice there’s no machinery at all."

GreenPower Motor Company · GP White Diamond Research · p. 10
callout villain critique

"PIONEERING THE ART OF RESPONSIBLE HOSPITALITY, CONNECTING CULTURES, WITH HEARTFELT CARE."

Accor SA · AC Grizzly Research · p. 216
callout peer gap

"CTO’s refusal to factor in recurring capex is highly unusual for a shopping center REIT."

CTO Realty Growth, Inc. · CTO Wolfpack Research · p. 15
callout villain critique

"Despite all of these grand claims, as of February 2021, the Hezhou E-Port doesn’t exist."

EHang Holdings, Ltd. · EH Wolfpack Research · p. 23
callout peer gap

"We discovered that GSX had significantly lower number of visits per year per enrollment."

GSX Techedu Inc. · GSX Grizzly Research · p. 35
callout other

"KLA is developing a competing tool that will launch in 2025 – "of course it's happening""

Lasertec Corporation · 6920 Scorpion Capital · p. 272
callout villain critique

"You seem repeatedly surprised by adverse events, and are exhibiting knee jerk reactions."

TeliaSonera AB · TLSN Muddy Waters · p. 12
quote villain critique

""Getting listed will allow the Company to develop at rocket-like speed." — Liu Zhen Yong"

Orient Paper, Inc. · ONP Muddy Waters · p. 2
quote appendix data

"the most direct impact on coverage and interference parameters — JDSU Product Literature"

American Tower Corp · AMT Muddy Waters · p. 54
quote villain critique

"Poyry states that, “Trees are typically felled by axe or handsaw, cut to length” — Poyry"

Sino-Forest Corporation · TRE Muddy Waters · p. 16
quote villain critique

""Insiders Attest That GeneDx Is Actively Committing Widespread Fraud" — Grizzly Research"

Tempus AI, Inc. · TEM Spruce Point Capital · p. 8
quote ceo quote

"Arconic management defines “historic high” based on three-year rolling average EBITDA/MT"

Arconic Inc. · ARNC Elliott Management · p. 110
quote kpi overview

"Focused on the "middle and upper echelons of the auction market" according to management"

Sotheby's · BID Third Point · p. 9
quote ceo quote

"“there’s no reason that it should not be a 60-plus precent gross margin business.” — CFO"

Twist Bioscience · TWST Scorpion Capital · p. 110
quote villain critique

"Page 26 of Twist’s Aug 2020 corporate presentation – second pic shows no laboratory pp&e"

Twist Bioscience · TWST Scorpion Capital · p. 132
quote villain critique

""[RINO’s] technology has no advantage beside not producing wastewater." — Contact at Lai"

quote ceo quote

"Growing and Sustaining Royalties — Herbalife Independent Distributor Presentation (2006)"

Herbalife Ltd. · HLF Pershing Square · p. 58
quote section divider

"Management has recognized that Platts is “an underappreciated gem”(1) within the company"

The McGraw-Hill Companies · MHP JANA Partners · p. 33
quote villain critique

"The Sartorius site explains the fermenters are simply bioreactors used to culture yeast."

Ginkgo Bioworks · DNA Scorpion Capital · p. 142
quote villain critique

"REPORT: The FTC has decided that Herbalife is not a pyramid scheme — BUSINESSINSIDER.COM"

Unknown · p. 39
quote villain critique

""These new regulations will fundamentally change the way we get around them." — P.C. Vey"

AerCap Holdings · AER Greenlight Capital · p. 27
quote villain critique

"Eli Lilly and Pfizer Put Osteoarthritis Pain Drug Tanezumab Out of its Misery — Biospace"

Pfizer Inc. · PFE Starboard Value · p. 29
quote ceo quote

"This is a shitty place - I always have to swivel my chair back and forth here. — C. Sch."

Ströer SE & Co. KGaA · SAX Muddy Waters · p. 50