MP1 is one of the shorts which keeps on giving to the traders having fallen another -22% already in 2023. This week we’ve seen the CEO Vincent English abruptly resign while the short position remains elevated at 9.4% although it is down from ~12% where it has been over recent months. Also, Chairman and Founder Bevan Slattery might continually lament the “shorters” but he’s been an active seller himself having sold ~$200mn worth of stock since 2018 including the last $6.15mn clip in October.
- We see no reason to catch this particular falling knife with alarm bells still ringing i.e. we want to hear some concrete reasons why the CEO departed.