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(Bloomberg) The disarray at Solutions 30 SE deepened as the European technology-services company, first targeted in 2019 by activist short seller Muddy Waters Capital LLC, said its auditor couldnât sign off on its 2020 accounts.
(Bloomberg) The disarray at Solutions 30 SE deepened as the European technology-services company, first targeted in 2019 by activist short seller Muddy Waters Capital LLC, said its auditor couldnât sign off on its 2020 accounts.
The company, which counts Telecom Italia SpA among its customers, saw much of its 1.1 billion-euro ($1.4 billion) market value wiped out Monday as the shares began trading again following a two-week halt. Luxembourg-based Solutions 30 published its own unaudited accounts over the weekend after Ernst & Young LLP said it hadnât been given the information necessary to perform the audit itself.
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Fellow short sellers are quietly cheering.
Activist short-seller Hindenburg Research, which became famous last year for its work uncovering an alleged fraud at electric truck maker Nikola, claimed that Clover Health, a Medicare advantage plan, is under investigation by the Department of Justice. It showed a screenshot of the civil investigative demand to Clover that lists 12 specific areas of that investigation.
The stock fell 12.5 percent on the report, though Hindenburg said it had not taken a short position and was publishing to show the value of short sellers and their research in the market.
Hindenburg became the first of the activists to put out short research following the attack last week by the Reddit forum WallStreetBets on the short sellers of GameStop that led one of them, Melvin Capital, to lose about $6 billion and get a $2.75 billion bailout from Citadel and Point72 Capital.