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Yeah - I don’t see how SPACs are anything more than a way to dump a losing company on the public. Supposedly it’s about giving founders certainty, but if the i
by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah - I don’t see how SPACs are anything more than a way to dump a losing company on the public.
Supposedly it’s about giving founders certainty, but if the investors in the SPAC want to take the founder’s company public then they must think the price they’re giving them is under market.
Best interpretation of this is founders not wanting to deal with the hassle of an IPO (or preferably DPO) and are willing to take that lower price to avoid the logistics (which doesn’t inspire much confidence in the founders for me).
I suspect a lot these are just about grifting money from the public while passing off a dying company. Cashing out quickly for SPAC investors and founders.
Nikola in particular is basically fraud and going to zero, just hard to know when. I think it’s too difficult to make money with a short position, this biases the market to support this kind of failed company longer than it should.
- xiphias2 6y agoGalileo in HyperChange said that he called a broker just to know the price of borrowing Nikola shares, and they said that it's 200% APR if I recall correctly. It may have been direvtly after the merger though, I don't know the exact details.
- CGZp9X9k 6y agoYou can actually look this up! IBKR provides SLB (stock loan borrow) rates for users, and someone made a site to report this data. https://iborrowdesk.com/ https://iborrowdesk.com/
- gregshap 6y agoBriefly over 800%! [https://iborrowdesk.com/report/NKLA https://iborrowdesk.com/report/NKLA]