Month: May 2015

Stock manipulation: Galada Power & Telecommunication

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Stock manipulation: Galada Power & Telecommunication

14 May 2015

Moneylife

In less than a year, the stock price of Galada Power & Telecommunication shot up by 813%. Astonishing for a company which has been declared sick

Galada Power & Telecommunication (GPT) manufactures electrical conductors and related products. In 2001, Galada’s bankers initiated legal proceedings for recovery of debts. GPT had defaulted in the payment of dues to its lenders and was declared a sick company by the Board for Industrial & Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) in September 2007. The order for winding up the company was stayed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court. Over the past year, a couple of lenders agreed to a one-time settlement of dues. GPT has generated revenue of just about Rs2 crore-Rs3 crore in each of the past five quarters with a net loss in a couple of quarters. Yet, the stock price shot up by 813%, to a high of Rs30.85 as on 27 February 2015 from Rs3.38 as on 26 March 2014, i.e., an investment of Rs1 lakh would have grown to Rs9 lakh in less than a year. From the peak, the price has fallen by nearly 25% to Rs23 on 5 May 2015. Despite the steep fall, it is still nearly 580% up compared to a year ago. The regulators, as usual, do not find this suspicious.

Vipshop – Gross Vs. Net

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Paul Gillis

Professor, long/short equity, foreign companies

Vipshop – Gross Vs. Net

May. 17, 2015 5:33 AM ET  |  About: Vipshop Holdings (VIPS)

Two research reports came out recently against Vipshop Holdings (NYSE:VIPS), a Chinese e-commerce company listed on NASDAQ. One report, from Beijing based J Capital, apparently focuses on differences between US regulatory filings and Chinese statutory filings. The J Capital report has not been made public, and my observations are based on the press reports. The company has pushed back on this report saying J Capital read the wrong statutory filings. I don’t put much faith in these types of analyses, since there are many reasons why those filings might be different that don’t point to fraud in the US filings.

The other report, from heretofore unknown research firm Mithra Forensic Research (Mithra). Mithra has taken the more traditional short selling research methodology so effectively used by the likes of Muddy Waters that involves throwing the kitchen sink at the company. At the heart of Mithra’s allegations is that VIPS is improperly recording revenue. Continue reading →

Hertz Accounting Fix Keeps CFO in Financial No-Man’s Land

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May 15, 2015

Hertz Accounting Fix Keeps CFO in Financial No-Man’s Land

MAXWELL MURPHY

Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn in 2014. Mr. Icahn controlss three board seets and owns 11% of Hertz, which still hasn’t finalized a financial restatement it disclosed over a year ago. Thomas Kennedy’s move from hotels to rental cars in December 2013 came with an unexpected twist. Continue reading →

Electrical and mechanical solutions provider YFG Bhd has been slapped with sanctions by the Securities Commission (SC) for knowingly authorising the furnishing of false statements on Nov 5, 2014 in its amended audited financial statements to Bursa Malaysia.

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SC imposes sanctions on YFG

Friday, 15 May 2015

PETALING JAYA: YFG Bhd has been slapped with sanctions by the Securities Commission (SC) for knowingly authorising the furnishing of false statements on Nov 5, 2014 in its amended audited financial statements to Bursa Malaysia. Continue reading →

Toshiba puts downward profit revision at over ¥50 billion ($412 million) for the three years through March 2014 because of an in-house investigation into improper accounting at its infrastructure-related businesses

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Toshiba puts downward profit revision at over ¥50 billion

KYODO, BLOOMBERG

MAY 14, 2015

Toshiba Corp. has announced it might have to revise operating profit downward by just over ¥50 billion ($412 million) for the three years through March 2014 because of an in-house investigation into improper accounting at its infrastructure-related businesses. Continue reading →

Corporate Japan Answers to Nobody: How could the massive accounting irregularities at Toshiba still happen four years after the $1.7 billion Olympus fraud scandal?

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Corporate Japan Answers to Nobody

MAY 14, 2015 6:00 PM EDT

By William Pesek

It’s been a dreadful week for Japanese corporations. Toshiba is facing questions about its accounting practices, Sharp is asking lenders for another bailout and Takata can’t escape bad news about its airbags. Continue reading →

Don’t write off write-offs: Bad news often reflects past overoptimism

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Don’t write off write-offs: Bad news often reflects past overoptimism

May 16th 2015

| From the print edition

WHEN big companies announce write-offs, they tend not to do things by halves. Back in 2008 AIG, an insurance group rescued by the American government, reported an annual loss of $99 billion, with almost $62 billion of that occurring in a single quarter. In 2001 JDS Uniphase, an optical-equipment maker, chalked up a deficit of $56 billion.

Such losses are so big they can seem almost unreal. That can serve a dual purpose. First, the deficit can be dismissed as the product of “mere accounting”, the result of pedantic number-crunching. Assets have been written down in value, but that is not the same as a cash loss. Second, when new managers are appointed, a huge loss can be blamed on the previous regime. All the bad news can be revealed at once, a phenomenon known as “kitchen-sinking”. From that point on, the only direction for profits must be up. Continue reading →

The football club, the chemicals maker and the newspaper group. Or, Hong Kong’s $12bn of trapped capital in prolonged suspended stocks

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The football club, the chemicals maker and the newspaper group. Or, Hong Kong’s $12bn of trapped capital

FT Alphaville | May 14 07:18 | 1 comment | Share

By Jennifer Hughes in Hong Kong

Seven weeks of silence. That’s what investors in Tianhe Chemicals have had since the short target said it needed to give its auditors more information and would delay publishing its 2014 results. Thursday marks exactly seven weeks since it made the announcement and suspended its shares at the same time, highlighting one of the less fun aspects of the Hong Kong market – the risk of getting trapped.

A recap:The Chinese speciality chemicals group became a Hong Kong market darling after it listed last June, gaining more than a third between the float and the moment it was attacked by Anonymous Analytics just over two months later. The now standard attack- denial-more attack-lengthy rebuttal process followed. Tianhe vigorously rejected AA’s claims that it had generated a fraction of the sales and profits it had reported. Continue reading →

Wesley Clark: The Penny-Stock General; As long as there have been fraudulent stocks to tout, promoters have used the names of prominent people to gain the confidence of the public

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Wesley Clark: The Penny-Stock General

The retired four-star general lends his name to some sketchy companies

byZachary MiderZeke Faux

May 14, 2015

Sixteen years ago, Wesley Clark was the four-star U.S. Army general running the Kosovo war. These days, he’s been pitching food-truck franchises to military veterans and helping a convicted felon raise money to grow hydroponic lettuce. “We’d love it if you joined with us in an investment,” the silver-haired Clark, 70, says in a promotional video for a company called the Grilled Cheese Truck. He’s pictured standing in front of a statue of a bald eagle in a replica of the Oval Office. “We’re going to be one of the fastest-growing young companies in America.”

The grilled cheese venture is losing money and hasn’t signed any veterans as franchisees, and the lettuce operation is being sued for failing to pay its bills. They’re just two of a dozen precarious ventures with which Clark has been associated since he retired from the Army with the self-proclaimed goal—a joke, he says now—of making $40 million.

Clark is one of many former governors, generals, and congressmen who’ve found second careers lending their name to tiny companies that are willing to pay for prestige. Since he ran for president in 2004, Clark has joined the boards of at least 18 public companies, 10 of them penny-stock outfits, whose shares trade in the “over the counter” markets, a corner of Wall Street where fraud and manipulation are common. Continue reading →

Share price manipulation in property and clean energy firm Sinjia Land (SES: 5HH, Bloomberg: SINJ SP)? 63.2 per cent plunge in its share prices between May 7 and 11.

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Sinjia requests trading halt after SGX advisory

13 May 2015

The Straits Times

PROPERTY and clean energy firm Sinjia Land requested a trading halt yesterday after the Singapore Exchange (SGX) issued a trade with caution advisory following a 63.2 per cent plunge in its share prices between May 7 and 11. Continue reading →