DWAC’s Difficulties

Just one week after Digital World Acquisition Corp. announced that it was under investigation by the SEC and FINRA for possible insider trading, the SPAC got hit with a fraud lawsuit… ๐Ÿ˜ณ

Private equity investor Brian Shevland is suing the CEO of the blank check firm partnered with President Trump’s social media site, Truth Social. Shevland claims that Patrick Orlando, the CEO of $DWAC, committed a “brazen act of fraud” by denying Shevland access to thousands of shares and the opportunity to acquire more stock at low rates.

Shevland suggests that he should be able to purchase shares for $0.003 each as a remedy, much lower than the SPAC IPO price of $10 and the current price of $50.03. Whether or not Mr. Shevland will be granted his wish of shares for pennies on the dollar is a mystery. ๐Ÿ’ญ

But we do know one thing. ๐Ÿ’ก And that’s the fact that $DWAC is strong as h*ll despite its slew of bad news. $DWAC has drifted 404% higher since Oct 21, the day it announced news of its merger with Trump’s social media platform. Here’s the daily chart:

FanDuel Parent Lists On NYSE

The U.S. “degenerate economy” is getting its latest entrant, with FanDuel parent company Flutter Entertainment making its debut on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) today. ๐Ÿคฉ

With that said, the company did not receive the traditional fanfare it would in a standard initial public offering (IPO). That’s because it was listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in May 2019, and its American depository receipts (ADR) have traded over the counter under the ticker $PDYPY for years.

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Investors Are Losing Trust

It’s been a rough eighteen months or so for real estate investment trusts (REITs), with higher interest rates giving investors alternative sources of yield and pressuring commercial real estate’s asset values. Unfortunately for Medical Properties Trust (MPT), that pain continuesย today, with its shares falling back to their Great-Financial-Crisis lows. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

The medical-related real estate property operator revealed to investors that one of its tenants, Steward Health Care System, is roughly $50 million behind in rent payments. As a result, MPT will take a $225 million noncash charge to write off rent receivables and other items.ย 

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PayPal Pops Ahead Of Key Event

It’s been a rough few years for payment giant PayPal, with shares falling 85% peak-to-trough. Recently, the stock has begun to rebound with other beaten-down tech names but remains about 80% below all-time highs. In other words, it would need to nearly 5x its share price to reach those levels again. ๐Ÿ“ˆ

While that may seem a ways off, investors have recently pushed shares to their best three-day run since the end of 2022. That’s because the company promised to roll out new “customer-backed innovation” at an event next Thursday, with its new CEO Alex Chriss saying, “It is very clear what we need to do.”

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Boeing Loses Altitude (Again)

If you’re an investor in airlines or airplane manufacturers, this is not the type of headline you want to wake up to. Unfortunately for Boeing and several others, the news is not great. So let’s dig into it. ๐Ÿ‘‡

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