Imploded stocks

Kind of a Funny Week for Stocks, Lots of Drama, Little Change: But Tesla & Nvidia Ended Deeper in the Hole

by Wolf Richter • Aug 10, 2024 • 106 Comments

Our pantheon of Imploded Stocks is weighing down the Russell 2000 index.

PE Firm Blackstone’s Epic Pump-n-Dump with Bumble now down to just a Mop-up Operation: Shares -94% since IPO Pop

by Wolf Richter • Aug 8, 2024 • 70 Comments

Blackstone made over $2 billion (as the public got wiped out), taking advantage of Consensual Hallucination.

Without Share Buybacks, Subprime-Focused Retailer-Lender Conn’s Wouldn’t Have Had to File for Bankruptcy

by Wolf Richter • Jul 29, 2024 • 70 Comments

A basket case for years. Acquiring W.S. Badcock was another great idea; 7 months later, both are bankrupt and liquidating.

Winemaker SPAC with Dozens of Brands, Result of PE-Firm Backed Rollup, Files for Bankruptcy 3 Years after SPAC Merger

by Wolf Richter • Jul 25, 2024 • 53 Comments

Everyone was happy, sort of, except the public that bought the misbegotten shares and got wiped out?

Another of Our Imploded Stocks Ends in Bankruptcy: Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, 2 Years after its Infamous Redbox Acquisition

by Wolf Richter • Jul 1, 2024 • 62 Comments

Don’t buy anything from a PE firm after Consensual Hallucination runs out?

The Collapse of the EV SPACs: Fisker Joins the Bankruptcy Party, Others on the Verge

by Wolf Richter • Jun 19, 2024 • 107 Comments

Consensual Hallucination drove that SPAC boom during the free-money era.

Software Stocks Got Massacred, after Salesforce & UiPath Bloodbath. Bad Breath of AI?

by Wolf Richter • May 30, 2024 • 66 Comments

UiPath -85% from peak just three years after IPO amid CEO chaos. When consensual hallucination fades…

Vacation-Rental SPAC Vacasa Restructures. Shares -97% in 2.5 Years as Public Company

by Wolf Richter • May 10, 2024 • 59 Comments

Consensual Hallucination wiped out investors, but Wall Street got the fees.

Ad-Tech Outfit DoubleVerify Plunges 40% Today, -62% from Peak, 3 Years after IPO. Nabs WOLF STREET Downgrade to “Should Have Never Bought”

by Wolf Richter • May 8, 2024 • 78 Comments

We have a special place in our heart for DoubleVerify because it blacklists WOLF STREET in the “brand safety” services it touts to advertisers.

Sagging Used-Car Prices, Spiking Maintenance & Repair Costs, and a Post-Bankruptcy Propaganda Coup Turn Toxic for Hertz

by Wolf Richter • Apr 29, 2024 • 146 Comments

Americans need lower car prices. But not Hertz. “The residual decline … was relative to both ICE vehicles and EVs”: Hertz

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