Why Hindenburg Research Is Shorting Twitter: ‘Musk Holds All the Cards’

Why Hindenburg Research Is Shorting Twitter: ‘Musk Holds All the Cards’
Twitter logo and a rising stock graph in this illustration taken on April 25, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
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Twitter Inc shares traded lower by 4 percent on Monday, well off the $54.20 per-share buyout price Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk has agreed to pay to take Twitter private.

In a new report, short-seller Hindenburg Research said there’s plenty of reason for investors to be skeptical of the Musk buyout.

Changing Circumstances

Hindenburg said there are several factors that suggest Musk is not getting the value for Twitter that he was on April 14 when he announced his offer.