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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR) and Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ: RKLB) are both tiny aerospace companies that went public by merging with special purpose acquisition companies ( SPACs ) in 2021. Both stocks initially soared, but they crashed after the companies missed their pre-merger estimates and racked up steep losses.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) , a provider of online financial services, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) on June 1, 2021. Like many other SPAC-backed start-ups, SoFi lost its luster after it missed its own ambitious pre-merger forecasts. million at the end of 2020 to 8.77

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

First, prior to this decline, the company's ratio of enterprise value (EV) to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) was at an all-time high of 24. MTYFF Free Cash Flow data by YCharts Making 27 acquisitions worth more than $1.7 Not so much. However, its 2.9% Currently, the company's 2.3%

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in December 2020 and reached its record high of $35.88 But in 2023, the company's revenue plunged, its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margin declined, and it stayed unprofitable.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The maker of electric semi-trucks was a red-hot stock during the buying frenzy in speculative stocks in 2020, but it ran out of juice after it missed its production forecasts. Nikola 's (NASDAQ: NKLA) stock has plunged nearly 99% over the past three years. After that steep decline, Nikola's stock now trades at just 2 times this year's sales.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

21, 2020, many investors hailed it as the " Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) of real estate" because its online marketplace streamlined the home buying process by making instant cash offers for homes, repairing the properties, and relisting them for sale. Opendoor's business thrives when the housing market is hot and interest rates are low.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Unlike AT&T and Verizon , which expanded their wireless networks to reduce their dependence on wireline connections, Lumen shunned the wireless market and expanded its wireline business through a series of mergers and acquisitions. Lumen expected to generate slow but steady growth as economies of scale kicked in.

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MAY 22, 2024

The enterprise AI software company went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ), and its stock opened at $9.84 In a pre-merger presentation, BigBear.ai In a pre-merger presentation, BigBear.ai from 2020 to 2023, its gross margin dropped to 26%, and its adjusted EBITDA turned negative.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN) seemed like a promising growth stock when it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in Dec. In 2020, the pandemic caused its home sales to grind to a halt. Metric 2020 2021 2022 9M 2023 Revenue $2.6 billion $8.0 billion $15.6 billion $6.1 YOY = year over year.

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MAY 20, 2024

SoundHound went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) two years ago. In a pre-merger presentation, SoundHound claimed it could grow its revenue at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 104% from $13 million in 2020 to $110 million in 2023 as it expanded its gross margin from 55% to 77%.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

A lot of that has been through acquisitions, with Builders FirstSource doing a massive deal in 2020 and completing 14 smaller purchases in the last two years alone to rapidly expand both its product portfolio and its geographic reach. billion in cash between 2024 and 2026 on share repurchases and continued acquisitions.

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AUGUST 18, 2024

Despite this track record of success -- along with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) and FCF growth of 81% and 73% over the last five years -- the share price for MTY stock trading over the counter in the U.S. is down 40% from its high. percentage points.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Wesco earned $3.71 The sales figure was up 5% year over year, but adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) was flat compared to a year prior and gross margin fell by 10 basis points to 21.6%. per share on revenue of $5.75

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In early 2020, people around the world experienced a life-changing event as the COVID-19 pandemic struck. With many in the general population adopting this new way of working, it wasn't long before other aspects of everyday life followed suit. You may be wondering how Hims & Hers differentiates itself from other online pharmacies.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) went public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on April 28, 2022. During its pre-merger presentation, SoundHound predicted that its revenue would rise from $13 million in 2020 to $20 million in 2021, and then grow to $28 million in 2022.

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JUNE 16, 2023

Energy Transfer, on the other hand, cut its distribution in half in 2020 as the energy industry faced difficult times during the early days of the pandemic. For example, its ratio of debt to EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ) is generally among the lowest of its closest peer group.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) disappointed a lot of investors after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in September 2021. The company's revenue only rose 15% in 2020 as the closures of schools and testing centers during the pandemic lockdowns curbed its growth. on the first day. Image source: Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

It has also declined more than 97% from its all-time high in December 2020. The company went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in February 2021. It actually exceeded its pre-merger estimates by growing revenue by 65% in fiscal 2022 and 94% in fiscal 2023. million to $68.9 million, or $0.16

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

SoFi stock: Down 61% from its high Jennifer Saibil : I was wary of the hype surrounding SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) when it went public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in June of 2021. It was untested, with an astronomical valuation and no profits. Revenue grew 18% year over year to reach $3.4

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MARCH 4, 2024

SoundHound narrowed its loss according to adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) from $18.8 SoundHound AI went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in April 2022. It narrowed its net loss from $30.9 million to $18.0 million, or $0.07

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AUGUST 13, 2023

Understanding Magnite's growth strategies Magnite was created via the merger of two smaller ad tech companies, The Rubicon Project and Telaria, in 2020. All of those mergers and acquisitions turned Magnite into the world's largest independent sell-side platform (SSP) for digital ads.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Magnite Magnite is an ad tech company created by the merger of The Rubicon Project and Telaria in 2020. In 2023, its revenue rose only 7% as its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) dipped 4%. Image source: Getty Images.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) , a maker of electric semi-trucks, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in June 2020. In its pre-merger presentation, it told investors it could deliver 600 BEVs in 2021, 1,200 BEVs in 2022, and 3,500 BEVs in 2023. Its shares opened at $37.55 a week later.

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MARCH 11, 2024

2020, and its stock skyrocketed to a record high of $177.47 BigBear went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in Dec. That was well below its pre-merger target of $388 million for the year. Both stocks have gone on wild rides since their market debuts. C3 listed its IPO at $42 in Dec. last April.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Microsoft is starting to separate itself because it's tied to so many things and we saw what it is now trying to do in the gaming business with its Activision Blizzard acquisition of almost $70 billion. Andy Cross: It'll be very interesting to see how this all works out with Microsoft as they continue to push more aggressively at the cloud.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

It had made more than a dozen acquisitions and was sitting on properties with the ability to eventually produce north of 600,000 kilograms (1,322,773 pounds) of cannabis annually. In March 2022, it completed its acquisition of Alcanna and became the largest private-sector liquor retailer in our neighbor to the north.

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