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callout villain critique

"We have already shared evidence indicating that Cambium is an undisclosed related party in which Ginkgo is an investor."

Ginkgo Bioworks · DNA Scorpion Capital · p. 111
callout villain critique

"Spruce Point finds this maneuver particularly aggressive and gives the Company no credit for its “revenue adjustments.”"

Verint Systems, Inc. · VRNT Spruce Point Capital · p. 81
callout demand list

"New leadership to be laser-focused on executing against plan targets, with a refreshed Board providing strong oversight"

Southwest Airlines · LUV Elliott Management · p. 45
callout before after

"The Stronger Southwest plan ambitiously addresses the Company’s key issues and delivers a brighter future for Southwest"

Southwest Airlines · LUV Elliott Management · p. 49
callout villain critique

"The question is who benefits from the harm to savers? Of course, it is governments who are able to borrow more cheaply."

AerCap Holdings · AER Greenlight Capital · p. 15
callout peer gap

"Commvault is not executing against this paradigm and is delivering both exceedingly low margins and low revenue growth."

Commvault Systems, Inc. · CVLT Elliott Management · p. 7
callout villain critique

"We believe investors fail to appreciate the full range of potential competitors and competitive threats faced by Heska."

Heska Corporation · HSKA Spruce Point Capital · p. 33
callout section divider

"2022年までの10年間、モルトンブラウンの世界収益は6.2%の年平均成長率を達成しました。しかし、花王は2030年までのモルトンブラウンの年平均成長率は5.2%を目指すとしており、この10年よりも遅いペースの成長目標が掲げられています。"

Kao Corporation · 4452.JP Oasis Management · p. 60
callout sop buildup

"Other companies with brands like these, such as Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive, trade at low 20s P/E multiples."

Bayer AG · BAYN Greenlight Capital · p. 26
callout villain critique

"This "coincidence" calls into question whether there was any commercial rationale at all for CPI PG to acquire Polma 1."

callout other

"After subtracting 10,342 duplicates, this resulted in 28,545 total users (52.8%) that we are highly confident are fake."

GSX Techedu Inc. · GSX Muddy Waters · p. 6
callout villain critique

"Revenue is the only metric difficult to manipulate, and would reflect USCR's negative true organic volume growth rates."

U.S. Concrete Inc · USCR Spruce Point Capital · p. 21
callout villain critique

"Stepping outside of a pre-arranged plan is highly unusual and aggressive, especially when the options are not expiring."

TransMedics Group Inc · TMDX Scorpion Capital · p. 14
callout villain critique

"That something “big” may drop seems to be an open secret - transplant surgery is a small field where word travels fast."

TransMedics Group Inc · TMDX Scorpion Capital · p. 111
callout villain critique

"TransMedics surgeons viewed as a “nightmare to work with”; centers don’t trust organs are handled by qualified surgeons"

TransMedics Group Inc · TMDX Scorpion Capital · p. 203
callout villain critique

"Device technicians are unqualified and “unprepared”; require help; “not qualified to be pulling or pushing medications”"

TransMedics Group Inc · TMDX Scorpion Capital · p. 242
callout demand list

"The Board must provide shareholders additional information regarding the process and value of concessions made to CPKC."

callout villain critique

"If he plans to keep the c-suite under a Rossy dynasty, the family’s personal stake in the business should reflect that."

Dollarama Inc. · DOL Spruce Point Capital · p. 45
callout villain critique

"In our opinion, these product hypes are used by management and Street analysts as a carrot to keep investors interested"

iRobot Corp · IRBT Spruce Point Capital · p. 28
callout ceo quote

"Yet again, this data point calls into question why Leidos implied that ~90% of the deal revenue would be international."

Leidos Holdings, Inc. · LDOS Spruce Point Capital · p. 28
callout section divider

"Key trial investigators broadly rebuke VYKAT XR as a failure and looming safety disaster – summaries of each interview."

Soleno Therapeutics · SLNO Scorpion Capital · p. 53
callout villain critique

"Not surprisingly, posts are already piling up with parents indicating they have discontinued the drug or considering it"

Soleno Therapeutics · SLNO Scorpion Capital · p. 177
callout villain critique

"As we shall show, the claim that the PK profiles are different is , making the two formulations freely interchangeable."

Soleno Therapeutics · SLNO Scorpion Capital · p. 199
callout villain critique

"I can't think of any reason why the substitution couldn't achieve the same result...yeah, I agree with your assessment."

Soleno Therapeutics · SLNO Scorpion Capital · p. 219
callout villain critique

"“Hourly Consulting Pay” is unrelated to “hours” or “consulting.” It is merely a deceptive label for recruiting rewards."

Herbalife Ltd. · HLF Pershing Square · p. 24
callout ceo quote

"We had much better compounds based on physical property and drug-like properties than pitolisant. So, we pursued those."

Harmony Biosciences Holdings · HRMY Scorpion Capital · p. 97
callout other

"Whale prescribers cutting prescriptions as they run out of patients or have no clinical results or “heat” from insurers"

Harmony Biosciences Holdings · HRMY Scorpion Capital · p. 359
callout villain critique

"In our opinion, Prestige shares many of the same accounting and financial strains that foreshadowed Boulder's collapse."

Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. · PBH Spruce Point Capital · p. 13
callout peer gap

"Non-memory (memory is more commoditized) semiconductor bellwethers largely trade in a range of 10-16x forward year EBIT"

Sony Corporation · 6758.T Third Point · p. 34
callout villain critique

"The fact that they don’t have a commercial office in North America suggests that they have little to no business there."

ZJK Industrial · ZJK White Diamond Research · p. 4
callout appendix methodology

"We believe the previous purchase price of $1.92M better reflects the value of the property at the time of the purchase."

callout demand list

"New leadership to be laser-focused on executing against plan targets, with a refreshed Board providing strong oversight"

Southwest Airlines · LUV Elliott Management · p. 56
callout before after

"The Stronger Southwest plan ambitiously addresses the Company’s key issues and delivers a brighter future for Southwest"

Southwest Airlines · LUV Elliott Management · p. 60
callout ceo quote

"We think that within 6 months AXDX management will be forced to revise down reagent revenue expectations a second time."

Accelerate Diagnostics · AXDX White Diamond Research · p. 16
callout villain critique

"We estimate pro forma net leverage would be at ~5x today, reflecting Disney’s lower run-rate EBITDA compared to FY 2018"

The Walt Disney Company · DIS Trian Partners · p. 23
callout villain critique

"There is no proof that any optimization problem is solved faster using [D-Wave's] system compared to classical solvers."

D-Wave Quantum Inc · QBTS Kerrisdale Capital · p. 9
callout villain critique

"Misclassifying finished goods as work-in-process inventory are "tricks any supplier can play"; many ways to call it WIP"

Lasertec Corporation · 6920 Scorpion Capital · p. 241
callout sop buildup

"These businesses are not as profitable as either Soda Ash or Peroxides, but they provide stability and diversification."

Solvay SA · SOLB BB Greenlight Capital · p. 36
callout villain critique

"Deceptive persons often respond with moral outrage and bewilderment when confronted with an accusation of wrong-doing."

Stroer SE & Co. KGaA · SAX Muddy Waters · p. 11
callout other

"We believe that calculating ITCs in a recursive manner contradicts the intent of the legislation that created the ITC."

Sunrun Inc. · RUN Muddy Waters · p. 12
callout process diagram

"Henry Schein’s relationships and integrity with vets worldwide will “turbo charge” Vets First Choice’s growth profile."

Henry Schein, Inc. · HSIC Spruce Point Capital · p. 13
callout process diagram

"Vets First Choice will likely have grown its U.S. market share to 36% by the end of 2018 from ~20% at the end of 2017."

Henry Schein, Inc. · HSIC Spruce Point Capital · p. 23
callout other

"HLF's share price has increased 18% including dividends from our average cost at announcement date to January 20, 2017"

Unknown · p. 67
callout sop buildup

"In effect, Valeant is three diverse businesses, with unique opportunities and challenges and divergent growth profiles"

Unknown · p. 74
callout villain critique

"Spruce Point believes this news came at an opportune time for the Company, days ahead of the beginning of its lock-up."

Genius Sports Limited · GENI Spruce Point Capital · p. 9
callout ceo quote

"While we acknowledge FIGS has strong brand awareness, we believe the Company understates its reliance on social media."

FIGS, Inc. · FIGS Spruce Point Capital · p. 71
callout villain critique

"Shareholders are picking up the tab for CEO Dovigi to purchase a new car annually and personal use of the Company jet."

GFL Environmental Inc. · GFL Spruce Point Capital · p. 40
callout kpi overview

"Restaurant Brands International’s share price increased 175% including dividends since it merged with Justice Holdings"

Unknown · p. 49
callout villain critique

"Generac's acquisition of Enbala Power Networks in Oct 2020 has the flavor of a failed, but highly promoted investment."

Generac Holdings, Inc. · GNRC Spruce Point Capital · p. 93
callout villain critique

"Four months later, on March 28, 2012, Stable Energy Resources assigned mineral rights to SandRidge in adjacent acreage"

SandRidge Energy · SD TPG-Axon · p. 30
callout peer gap

"Many companies took advantage of the digital shift to drive improved growth during the pandemic, while Box decelerated"

Box, Inc. · BOX Starboard Value · p. 55
callout ceo quote

"The EBITDA AMT was implying for Site Sharing at that time was at least 53.5% higher than Site Sharing's actual EBITDA."

American Tower Corp · AMT Muddy Waters · p. 11
callout other

"Moreover, there are a wide variety of urologist-specific issues that present strong headwinds to Aquablation adoption."

PROCEPT BioRobotics Corporation · PRCT Spruce Point Capital · p. 61
callout transition

"One would think Riot has its hands full trying to develop East Texas rather than pursuing hostile takeovers in Quebec."

Riot Platforms, Inc. · RIOT Kerrisdale Capital · p. 17