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Remark Holdings May be the Most Brazen Promote of the Year
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Terminal Patient
Management seems to have given away Cynviloq (a generic Abraxane candidate), the only promising drug the company ever looked like it might commercialize, for a pittance. Sorrento not only sold the drug to its chief competitor but then turned around and gave the cash payment back to that competitor and, seven months later, BOUGHT back 40% of the drug! We calculate that Sorrento actually paid the Nant network of biotech companies about $6 mln in the complicated set of transactions. We have identified a pattern of circular transactions and capital-intensive joint ventures that never show results. Many joint ventures have no clear purpose and have created no advancement in product development to date. JVs with the Nant network of biotech companies to which Sorrento contributed $60 mln are examples of such dubious spending. |
Disaster in waiting
IP Group has hurried to diversify risk from its biggest asset, Oxford Nanopore, a company that cannot make its technology work but whose valuation has been bloated by successive rounds of investment. Now, facing cash shortages, the company looks to be on the precipice of a major devaluation if not failure. That single company could drag down IPO’s price by 20%. |
No “there” there
Wherever we look, we cannot find a real business behind Remark Holdings. The company changes its business description so quickly that even management struggles to explain. That does not stop them from pushing out press releases that make wild claims for fantastic new technologies to come.
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Australia's Circuit City
We estimate that Harvey Norman (HVN) is overstating revenue from franchisees by about AUD 150 mln per year, or 8% of consolidated revenue. That money comes straight off the bottom line and would mean a 30% overstatement of profit. In poor years, the overstatement may have reached 50% of profit.
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