
Block on CNBC’s Squawk Box Discussing Latest Short, eHealth Inc.
Block on CNBC’s Squawk Box discussing MW's latest short, eHealth Inc. Watch the full interview here… more
Block on CNBC’s Squawk Box discussing MW's latest short, eHealth Inc. Watch the full interview here… more
Muddy Waters is short XL Fleet Corp. (NYSE: XL) because it strikes us as middle of the fairway SPAC garbage. We conclude that the real green technology at XL is duping investors into throwing money at this company through a collection of exaggerations, half-truths, and mistruths. XL’s previous equit… more
While trawling the sewers of the world’s capital markets over the past 10 years, irony has never been in short supply. And yet, nothing could prepare us for the surreality of Baidu announcing its intention to buy YY Live from JOYY, which happened just as we were preparing to reveal that our year-lon… more
In the great present-day money grab known as SPAC promotion, egregious mistakes will be made – such as missing an impending customer defection that could cost ~35% of revenue within two years. A business model that incentivizes promoters to do something – anything – with other people’s money is boun… more
We are short NNOX because we think it is a much bigger piece of garbage than Nikola will ever be. There are important similarities, though. Nikola rolled a truck down the hill to try to prove it’s real. NNOX almost certainly used somebody else’s chest images to try to make its ARC machine look re… more
We estimate that – prior to any tail revenue adjustment – it takes EHTH nine years to fully collect each dollar of Medicare Advantage revenue it books. With tail revenue adjustments, EHTH’s collection period seemingly extends to 20 years. EHTH’s future cash flows are therefore highly speculative.… more
On May 18th, we published our research on GSX in which we concluded that at least 70% of GSX’s purported users are fraudulent, and quite likely the real percentage of fake users is over 80%. We detailed three behaviors we were highly confident evidenced widespread bot usage: “Precise Joiners”, “GSX… more
We are short GSX because we conclude that it is a near-total fraud. We conclude that at least ~70% of its users are fake, and we think it’s quite likely that at least ~80% of its users are fake. Our conclusions are based on GSX’s own user and attendance data files (i.e., this is n… more
Burford’s 2019 financials use reclassification, redefinition to inflate cash receipts, operating profit, and to otherwise present a misleading picture of the business. Cutting through the new bullshit, we adjust Burford’s cash receipts to show a YoY decline of -11.8%. We also adjust reported 2019 op… more
Block on CNBC’s Squawk Box discussing MW's latest short, eHealth Inc. Watch the full interview here… more
Block on Bloomberg discussing MW's latest short, Burford Capital. Watch the full interview here… more
Block on CNBC Squawk Box discussing a new kind of activism - morality shorts. Watch the full interview here.… more
Block on Yahoo Finance Video discussing morality shorts. Watch the full interview here.… more