Sentences with phrase «bet against a company»

Ackman said he has not yet made any money on his bet against the company and projected he will rake in more than $ 1 billion if the stock price drops to zero.

As a result, Maverick said most of its capital dedicated to the trade is betting against companies in the supply chain.

Short selling is a practice in which traders can bet against a company by selling shares they don't own and buying them back at a lower price.

Citron Research's Andrew Left, who's gained notoriety for successful bets against companies such as Valeant Pharmaceuticals, on Monday posted a new bearish report on Shopify.

Tesla Inc. exhorted its factory workers to prove wrong the «haters» betting against the company and is letting a small number of volunteers join the effort to ramp up output of the crucial Model 3 line.

The initial profit warning on July 10th 2017 saw the share price tumble and hedge funds double down on their bets against the company's survival.

Gotham hardly ever shorted or bet against companies.

The stock is heavily shorted with over 35 % of its available shares being borrowed and sold as a bet against the company.

By designing its own processors, Apple has found a way for its mobile devices to take a pretty big lead on the competition in terms or raw power, and at this point it would be hard to bet against the company.

It's hard to bet against a company with the recent track record that Apple has.

Not exact matches

It amounts to a counterintuitive bet: a passive music service delivered by cable firms and operated with financial discipline can win against flashy VC - backed on - demand streaming companies.

Icahn also told CNBC on Thursday that he has made $ 1 billion on paper on his long bet on Herbalife, a company that fellow hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman bet against and recently closed his disastrous position entirely.

Palihapitiya put Gurley through what he called a «lightning round,» naming a list of companies and demanding the VC say whether he'd go «long» (buy) or «short» (bet against) each one.

While this decision by shareholders seems to affirm their confidence in Musk and his vision, Vilas Capital is betting against Tesla, with Thompson predicting the company will crash in the next three - to - six months due to problems delivering on the Model 3 and falling demand for the Model S and X.

Druckenmiller, who has been betting against IBM since 2013, cited the buybacks (rather than investment in the business) as a factor when he first made his case publicly against the company.

NEW YORK, April 23 - Billionaire investor Jeffrey Gundlach on Monday said investors should consider betting against Facebook Inc because the prospect of regulation still hangs over the social media company's stock.

Left, who has gained notoriety for successful bets against stocks such as Valeant Pharmaceuticals, explained that his rapid change of view on Twitter came as a result of the growing scrutiny surrounding social media and how companies handle users» personal information.

«Mr. Ackman has a $ 1 billion bet against Herbalife and a direct financial interest in hurting our company,» said Alan Hoffman, an executive vice president at Herbalife.

Rather than resist Ackman, a brash, aggressively charming billionaire who likes to make huge bets on big companies and doesn't hesitate to wage proxy battles against those that rebuff him, Penney invited Ackman and Roth to join the board.

Ackman, who runs hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP, has been betting against Herbalife shares since 2012, claiming the company is a pyramid scheme — where new investors unwittingly fund the profits of older investors.

The head of a small company that has attracted controversy over its ties to cryptocurrency said that he is not going to sell his shares while he is fighting $ 1.4 billion in bets against the stock.

Ackman's $ 20 billion Pershing Square Capital Management made a $ 1 billion short bet against Herbalife in 2012 and has seen the stock price fluctuate as other prominent investors got in and the government began investigating the company.

With the start of a 12 - year NHL broadcast deal, the launch of streaming Netflix competitor Shomi and the announcement of a $ 100 million partnership with Vice Media to launch a TV channel in 2015, the company has made a range of bets to try to protect against the turbulence of the media market.

Caterpillar isn't the only company Chanos is betting against.

NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters)- Billionaire investor Jeffrey Gundlach said investors should consider betting against Facebook Inc, saying the prospect of regulation still hangs over the social media company's stock.

Among the others who could be out big bucks are the funds of John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market, and activist investor Jeff Ubben, whose ValueAct fund had been selling shares of Valeant this year but still owned nearly 15 million shares of the company as of the middle of 2015.

Ackman, who has been betting against Herbalife stock for the past four years, made the allegations during a presentation to his investors Wednesday about why he was still shorting the nutrition products company even after Herbalife's settlement with the Federal Trade Commission last week.

«These hedge funds are putting on what we call paired trades,... betting against one company with huge Chinese exposure and going long a similar company with little to no Chinese business,» he said on Friday.

«These 3G guys are really about how can we extract more out of the business, and long term, that tends to not work out well for a brand,» says Horan, who is considering «shorting,» or betting against, the shares of the holding company if and when the deal closes and it hits the market.

Click here to listen to an interview with Marc Cohodes on the social benefit of short sellers, and why Canadians can't stand it when someone bets against a domestic company.

So attired, the short seller proceeded to launch into his bearish theses for the collection of Canadian companies he's betting against.

The market doesn't seem to have much interest in betting against such a profitable and fast - growing company.

Buyers of put options are making bearish bets against the underlying company.

And a vocal investment research firm that had bet against Valeant's shares published a report criticizing the company's accounting.

Ackman had bet that he would make $ 1 billion in his short against the nutrition - selling company, accusing it of being a pyramid scheme.

Herbalife released a statement to CNBC Thursday night: «Mr. Ackman has a $ 1 billion bet against Herbalife and a direct financial interest in hurting our company.

Since our company preaches betting against the public, you always want at least one square book.

The club, which has informed the relevant authorities, believe accepting sponsorship from betting companies is incompatible with taking a strong stance against match fixing and gambling addiction.

Shaw had little option but to leave the club after the UK's Gambling Commission, the regulatory body that oversees British gambling, and the Football Association announced investigations into his actions when it emerged that a betting company had offered odds against any Sutton player tucking into a pie during the televised game.

New Yorkers, especially those laid off at companies like Sikorsky and Welch Allyn, deserve to know if their Senator is getting richer at their expense by betting against their future and profiting from her support of disastrous economic policies.»

William Ackman bet against Herbalife by shorting the company.

New state lobbying filings raise questions about the level of coordination between a powerful state lawmaker, his influential political consultant and a billionaire who has placed a $ 1 billion bet against the stock price of Herbalife, a multinational nutritional sales company.

New state lobbying filings raise questions about the level of coordination between a powerful state lawmaker — IDC Leader Jeff Klein — his influential political consultant (Luis Miranda) and a billionaire who has placed a $ 1 billion bet against the stock price of Herbalife, a multinational nutritional sales company.

But despite the picture's scant running time of mere 69 minutes, only a fool would bet against Pooh and company.

Yes, betting against Apple is foolhardy: the company has a track record of producing magnificent devices.

The company is obviously betting that a relatively basic reading device can hold its own against the more expansive — and expensive — multitasking e-readers and tablets such as the $ 249 Nook Color and, of course, Apple's iPad, which starts at $ 499.

Maybe the fund floating rate, but then the whole company would rather be a bet against rising interest rates than anything else.

I'm trying to find the final way to get these off my reports... Do you think my best bet is to send all exchanged letters between myself & midland to the 3 reporting companies, or should I start a lawsuit against Midland?

While shorting a company via credit default swaps isn't betting directly that the stock price will go down, it is still betting against the success of the company and thus is a form of short sale.

The only thing they all have in common is that the investor intends to make money by betting against the underlying company, typically by anticipating a decrease in the price of the company's common stock.