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Short seller

Part 2.

Brief

  • Plug needs the DOE loan as a financial lifeline. It’s racing to finish the approval process before Inauguration Day, fearing the Trump administration may cancel it.
  • A Hunterbrook investigation finds potential major roadblocks to getting the loan approved: Plug may not be able to secure enough water for planned hydrogen plants and may not have a credible plan for paying the loan back.
  • Plug’s plant in Georgia uses at least seven times more water than the company publicly claimed. While Plug’s website says that the facility would use a maximum of 74,300 gallons of water per day, the company already has access to 587,520 gallons daily and stated in a groundwater withdrawal application that it will need up to a million gallons daily to operate the plant. Overall, Plug is aiming to secure a total of up to 1.7 million gallons per day for the Georgia facility.
  • This threatens Plug’s planned expansion in Texas because the company only secured 500,000 gallons of water per day for hydrogen production at its new plant outside Dallas-Forth Worth, where it aims to produce three times more liquid hydrogen than it does in Georgia.
  • Plug has consistently overpromised and underdelivered, according to a Hunterbrook analysis. Plug targeted producing 500 metric tons of liquid hydrogen per day by the end of 2025, but to date has managed only 25 daily metric tons and appears likely only to add up to 15 metric tons per day next year. That’s less than 10% of Plug’s goal.
  • Part II of this investigation, an accounting analysis that will be published later today, reveals Plug is running out of cash. The company could go bankrupt within a year if the DOE loan doesn’t come through, and may not last much longer even if it does, according to Hunterbrook Advisor and NYU Accounting Professor Nick Gibbons — creating the risk that Plug could default on the loan and become the next Solyndra.
  • Neither Plug nor the DOE responded to repeated requests for comment on what, if any, water use statistics the company shared with the agency as part of its LPO application process.
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Short Seller News outlet.

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Key Points

  • The stock prices for H&R Block and Intuit fell after a report said Trump’s government efficiency team is considering creating a free tax-filing app.
  • Intuit, which makes the TurboTax tax-filing software, closed down 5%, while H&R Block closed down 8%.
  • A tax-filing app created by Trump’s planned “Department of Government Efficiency,” headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, would be a competitor to both H&R Block and TurboTax.
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Short seller news outlet.

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Not talking about touching the little guys. Talking about something like limiting sales or buys to $1M per day to curb the leverage these big corps have on the market.

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Big guys like Berkshire have so much leverage in the market. They can sell a huge chunk of stocks causing chaos and a huge drop in price, then buy low and profit. The stock market isn’t fair to regular investors. You’re at the mercy of these big firms.

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I always wondered why did some startup get what seems like a specials symbol, just the letter S.

How is that decision made and why was the symbol S free? Is it really special or was it just some coincidence?

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Info: I'm European and wish to put most of my savings from my full-time job into stocks similar to S&P 500 and VanEck Semiconductor. I'm also a total newbie in this area, so some beginner tips would be greatly appreciated. :3

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přeposláno z: https://lemmings.world/post/10202534

Do i get it right on the attached image? IMO it shows US bond yield inverted curve and the subsequent economic recessions (which follows this market indicator) on all time chart. sources:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NASDAQCOM

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/y/yieldcurve.asp

According to https://www.currentmarketvaluation.com/ the market is overvalued to strongly overvalued, so i am wondering if this crisis, that started in 2021/2022 is a longer crisis, which not yet ended and the overvalued stock price will fall down again? But more importantly, if I have misunderstood something wrong, please explain why.

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I am interested in what this group thinks will happen

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/9773444

ASML is the only company that produces equipment needed to make the most sophisticated semiconductors, and demand for its products is a bellwether for the industry’s health.

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I was holding RCL long-term during the pandemic and sold off after their last earnings report (at several points higher). Regretting that now as it keeps going up up and up.

Bought CCL for cheap before earnings and it's looking good.

Oil is down, record bookings. Really the only negative is the debt the industry acquired and high interest rates. But they're paying down the debt, profitable again, interest rates will go down.

The whole industry is poised well.

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With the GTA 6 announcement coming in December, I imagine now's a great time to invest in TTWO. However, instead of risking my savings, I just want to invest the tiny amount of crypto I get from mining.

I looked into Exness, but that unfortunately requires a photo of my ID and proof of my address, neither of which is something I feel comfortable giving to a company.

Are there any stock exchanges that could work for me?

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Damn, so no more novelty Hess trucks for sale around the holidays. I'm gonna miss those. https://youtu.be/iUCm2KHN_Ds?t=15

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With SPY's average ~5% return rate, does it make sense to invest in companies like SJT, MPW, PXD, etc that have over 10% dividends? Companies like ORC which have like 18% dividend, but the underlying stock price continues to fall more that 18% are traps sure, but SJT, MPW, PXD and others that have a decent track record of not losing much (or even gaining) value seem like good investments.

Am I missing something?

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