PR

Electrical_Ad_828

PR news would be excellent news today

GeoLogic23

**The Herald Group** is a PR firm that was part of picking Trump's first cabinet with his transition team. One of The Herald Group's members stayed on with his Sec. of State Rex Tillerson (Exxon Mobil / **American Petroleum Institute**). * Trump's transition team also included Peter Thiel, who was very active in cannabis at that time w/ Privateer Holdings. The Herald Group's webpage has a scrolling list of select clients. They deal with mostly very major companies, including several in oil: * Bayer (Monsanto), Eli Lilly, Gilead, Toshiba, Qualcomm, Bank of America * Marathon Petroleum, Chevron, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers * [Trulieve?](https://theheraldgroup.com/) The Herald Group discusses what they did for a "[cannabis distributor and manufacturer](https://theheraldgroup.com/case-studies/marijuana-distributor)": >**Problem**: Marijuana businesses cannot access traditional banking services >**Solution**: THG worked to change the narrative. We executed a coordinated, audience-tested campaign to reframe cannabis rescheduling as a bipartisan, economic, medical, and public-safety issue—leveraging targeted media, influencers, and stakeholder engagement to reach federal decision-makers. >**Results**: Our campaign successfully put marijuana rescheduling on the president's policy agenda. Through surrounding senior administration officials and multiple campaign refinements, we were able to reach the president himself. At a donor meeting, he said he was seeing the issue everywhere.   >Reached senior administration officials, including the President Trulieve has been in the news more than others, regarding their closeness with Trump. How much of this is paid PR from this firm? **Trulieve's lobbying dollars increased dramatically in Q2 of 2025.** * One of the lobbying firms Trulieve added right before 2025Q2 was a group formed in 2024 called **Advocus Partners.** * Advocus Partners is a collaboration between multiple lobbying and PR firms, [one of which was The Herald Group](https://bgrdc.com/leading-government-and-public-affairs-firms-join-together-to-establish-advocus-partners/) Advocus Partners themselves only have 3 federal lobbying clients, who all registered in 2025Q1. * The first client was Trulieve * Another was Blockratize (aka Polymarket) which has **Peter Thiel** as an investor and **Donald Trump Jr.** as an advisor. Advocus Partners specifically includes **Taylor Gross from The Herald Group.** Way back in early 2018, Taylor Gross specifically was part of a small group of people having discussions that led to the creation of the **National Cannabis Roundtable (later led by Cresco/Trulieve)**. This was well before Trulieve joined them though. Back then some key people in this small group discussing the National Cannabis Roundtable were **The Herald Group, John Boehner and Privateer Holdings (Peter Thiel)**. Advocus Partners is primarily made up of lobbyists from the firm **BGR Government Affairs**, including the guy who's worked with Brady Cobb in cannabis for years (Landrum). BGR/Advocus lobbyists have recently or currently work for the following relevant companies: * Cresco - Used BGR until late 2024. Cresco joined the National Cannabis Roundtable and acquired Brady Cobb's company after registering with BGR. * Verano - Registered BGR on 2/25/2025. Note that BGR was already part of Advocus Partners. * Trulieve - Registered Advocus Partners on 3/7/2025 * BAT - Used BGR since 2017 * Miracle Gro - Used BGR since 2017 for cannabis * Monsanto (Bayer) - Used BGR since 2019 Monsanto and Miracle Gro have been longtime partners, which is one reason I follow Miracle Gro so closely in relation to cannabis. **Monsanto is currently with both BGR and The Herald Group, which to me implies they have some influence over Advocus Partners.** The Herald Group was helping to form The National Cannabis Roundtable in early 2018. At this time they were strongly connected to John Boehner, Peter Thiel, and also **The American Petroleum Institute** through their work with Rex Tillerson. The National Cannabis Roundtable discussions included John Boehner's ex-chief of staff. He was actually the one who was **first contacted** about forming the National Cannabis Roundtable. In the middle of the National Cannabis Roundtable discussions in 2018, he was chosen to **lead the American Petroleum Institute.** He still leads them to this day. The American Petroleum Institute is the one oil organization that has actually lobbied for cannabis, for one single quarter in 2023. * The American Petroleum Institute specifically lobbied the [Senate for SAFER Banking Section 10. ](https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/00d8c66d-01db-4647-8fe6-b70db7041a64/print/) * Section 10 of SAFER Banking was the specific section that Senators had an issue with at that time. Today, another firm with ties to Trump Jr. (Checkmate) is also lobbying with a coalition called America First Agriculture for hemp and cannabis to be re-introduced as a key part of our economy, but with it connected to oil. This includes: >By modernizing policy, AFA envisions Cannabis as a sustainable feedstock that can compliment petroleum in industrial applications from bioplastics to renewable energy, all while fostering environmental responsibility and leveraging the latest fintech solutions.

SignificanceLate7002

That spike on ELAB last night makes me think they might drop a PR today. They usually issue them during PM so keep an eye out. They'll probably want to capitalize on the drone hype going on. Just be aware that they often follow up with dilution when it goes on a run.

Provolone-Jones

The fact that oil went to $87 while I was asleep is insane. Bessent and 🥭 want to kill the economy in the name of extremely short term good PR.

SherbertMindless8205

That’s their entire PR strategy though. It achieves a couple of things. Essentially they’re saying ”our models are so good it’s scary (therefore you should invest in us)” also ”since it’s so scary, we should only let the good and responsible company develop them” (regulatory capture).

Spez_is-a-nazi

Claude was the one that recommended bombing that school. Not exactly defending Altman here but it's an amazing PR coup to be the one literally involved in a war crime who comes out looking like the "moral" actor.....

ga643953

Their PR sucks. Look how much of the population hates AI because of their fearmongering. But the fact is with LLM hallucination, companies now need coders more than ever to keep the LLM from making more and more mistakes in the age of productivity boom. SaaS are also being supercharged by AI because they can now launch products way faster in the hands of people who have been coding for their entire career. SaaS ain't going anywhere. Anthropic also didn't raise the price on their new 4.8 model, so they know their pricing power has diminished.

SherbertMindless8205

Cringe. Anthropic are sucking up to the pentagon for government contracts and stuff too, they just seem have a better PR team

ChirrBirry

You have to watch the buy signals he sends, but also be aware of the sell vibes. If a company gets bad PR and he doesn’t ride to the rescue then it’s a sell.

ISniffFeet1

[PR0H181D0](https://www.reddit.com/user/PR0H181D0/), The Highly Regarded

Busy_Radio6183

In 1k in MDCX really good PR, might fly with volume.

Commercial_Ease8053

As if any of us knew this would happen today? Check the year to date chart and go through the last year of news and PR and acquisitions. What happened today was not at all planned or part of any investment thesis a year ago. The stock reached higher numbers without any White House news. It’s a good company and good stock completely regardless of drones pumping today.

Standard_Eggplant_64

ADS is def number 1 and is unique to other platforms as people come here as their last stop and for trust before a purchase . Then they can do private channels which they will do . Even instagram has private channels and Reddit is made for it . Why they don’t do it yet is mind boggling , the PR will be fine

BeginningRoad1661

If I’d known there was an unrelated PR at 8:19 I prob would’ve sold that 2.25 pop. Fidelity hasn’t published this news yet

Icy_Jelly_315

If Cuba why not Haiti and lump them all in with PR?

griff_16

Also, because these systems assume a single, permanent ID number for life, updating a passport number in some apps is impossible. I had to delete my JD account and create a new one because there is no way to update my passport number. I couldn’t not add my new bank card because the passport number held by the bank no longer matched the one registered with JD. The 12306 railway app has similar issues. When my friend obtained permanent residency, he had to create a new account and forfeit all of his accrued points if he wanted to use his new PR card.

taffy_laffy

that's because your mind is weak - you should be hitting new PR's as you feel the mind/muscle connection more and your pain tolerance goes higher, while perceived exertion goes lower - allowing you to push harder.

AffectionateAd7980

WTF? Yes, it is Science Fiction. First you mean ***if*** starship is ever operational. So far it isn't even close. Second, exactly what "resource mining" is more economical on to Moon or Mars that will be the source of this "trade".  Helium-3 to use in reactors we can't yet build? I would love to have moonbases and a more active space program. However, it will never happen if we depend on musk. Smoke and mirrors, hype and PR aren't science and engineering. 

Guilty_Rooster_6708

Google tried that with TurboQuant implementation and I was shitting bricks then, turn out it was more of a PR stunt and not much better the current existing strategy of rotating experts attn. Seems like we are stuck on this memory bottleneck for now unless something fundamentally changed in LLM architecture and make compaction less costly. Basically it’s not simple for Anthropic to randomly announce this sort of breakthrough. If there is it will probably publish a paper at least a year beforehand just like Google did with TurboQuant

SignificanceLate7002

Posted about VIDA last night. Some of you might not have seen it. I wouldn't go rushing in yet but it's a good one to add to your watchlist for news. VIDA Insiders reported large post IPO purchase bringing total insider ownership to 78% of the 8.8M outstanding shares with 180 day lock up period in effect until mid-November. https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/VIDA/schedule-13d-vida-global-inc-major-shareholder-acquisition-5-a2f122b91354.html There's not much info about this one yet as it's a recent IPO. Some kind of AI enterprise software developer. This only began trading on the 15th with the initial IPO price of $4. They have not issued any PR or news releases since the listing date and SEC filings are mainly insider purchases. US based company with no ties to China and the investor group, TVP Bitcoin Venture Funds, has ties to SpaceX infrastructure investments so there's a possible link here.

SignificanceLate7002

No problem. There's not much info about this one yet as it's a recent IPO. Some kind of AI enterprise software developer. This only began trading on the 15th with the initial IPO price of $4. They have not issued any PR or news releases since the listing date. All indications are that it is a US based venture backed listing.

bitofftoomuch

The run up from the FDA approval already happened, I had it on my list this morning to see if there would be a continuation from friday, but it obviously didnt happen. If you buy it now, it is because you believe they are going to have significant sales and announce some contracts. Dont think it goes anywhere without some PR news.

SueNYC1966

Well maybe this guy didn’t pay his legal bill - neither he it his attorney gave made a statement as to why they broke up a week before the trial. . All we know is unless he finds a new attorney by next week - he is going to represent himself in court. It’s a bad idea but it will be fun to watch. He also lost the suit to be a John Doe because he hired PR firm and put his name out there and the judge said “you can’t put the genie back in the bottle” and her lawyer said if he remained anonymous it was going to hurt the defamation suit they just filed this week. Weird his lawyer bailed out on him since he said he had an airtight case.

Zenin

Anthropic is moving away from flat-rate subscriptions; $200/seat/month doesn't get you very far. They, like all the AI vendors, are quickly pivoting to consumption rate plans rather than subscriptions. They have to...as those subsidies are burning too much capital. Around here, if manager approves, we have a hard cap of $2k/month/user for Claude. What all this really means is that if you're using the likes of Claude as an actual coding assistant (read: You aren't hitting "trust all" and letting Claude fully code your tickets into PRs, or other wasteful "agent based workflows" that are optimized to waste tokens) your usage will be very low. But that's very, *very* different than how most are pushing to use AI: Fully autonomous coding agents where the "developer" prompts once and walks away until the PR is ready to review...maybe gives it some feedback...let it go through another giant stack of tokens refactoring everything again to align with the review prompts, etc. For those who are going all in with agents and fully automated coding workflows, yes they're absolutely spending tokens at an incredible rate. And guess what; ALL AI stock valuations are currently pricing in the idea that such token yse rates are how everyone will actually use AI. If everyone just used these agents as coding *assistants* rather than human *replacements* the entire AI bubble would pop overnight.

_hiddenscout

I can tell you that DDOG switching is probably not going to happen for most companies and AI is a real benefit for them. The company I am looking at is starting to explore bits, their AI product, so when we have an issue and we page out the person on call, bits will already some investigation done and in some cases have a PR in with the fix for the problem. They offer a really great product.

curious_Jo

Can OP just to PR for a year, how long to get the benefit?

BeginningRoad1661

Are they waiting til 8am to release the PR and run MDAI?

throwaway9gk0k4k569

The PR is to justify the price action, not the other way around.

BostonbRamen

I can see how this can be confusing. That is when the FDA stamped it. Doesn't mean Spectral got word yet. Additionally none of us caught it around Thursday or Friday, from the data we have it was publicly sent out on the system's Saturday refresh. We picked it up from closely watching the FDA De Novo database, which is publicly accessible. If Spectral did get notice, it was a holiday weekend in the US. Management very likely would have held the press release as it wouldn't be good to release on a Friday when headed into a holiday weekend as the markets were closed on Monday for the holiday. Releasing the PR notice during premarket or at open on Tuesday is likely what we'll see. Should be an exciting day for MDAI! 😄

ch33ky_n1nj4

It sold off on legitimately bad news. Failed launch. Missed timetables. Radio silence PR. Not just red because of macro. Also it capitulated multiple times at 100. It was a smart decision to sell and move on to other space stocks like PL and RKLB at the time. At least RKLB was transparent about Neutron. And PL demonstrated profitability. The mob will keep glazing ASTS regardless

Kye7

I think it's a PR stunt

Pale-Silver-8178

ASTS had a breakout and they have upcoming PR and Launches. It's your money gang I cant tell you how to spend it just manage your risk dont blow 80k 🙏

ch33ky_n1nj4

Don't care. By the time that happened, RKLB PL FLY and LUNR already doubled. I rather place my bets on stocks with a chart that consistently goes up every quarter instead of a stock that's been flat until the CEO decided to get his shit together after radio silence PR. You aren't reaping the benefits of having gigantic balls. Sounds more like coping while others are already ahead

derprondo

Claude: Please put the fries in the bag, ensure you update the release notes, commit and push, then open a PR and slack the team to get it approved.

DrSeuss1020

I’m VERY bullish on PCT. And honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they become my largest holding one day. The NJ regulation approval was massive, the company looks to be increasing PR announcements as well and the other new plants look to be on track. I also think the cospatox testing is one of the other extremely bullish data points recently. Lots of exciting things for them in the works and I’m not touching that position

Acrobatic-Judge-1190

I just saw that in the May 14th PR. Looks like this will take a little longer for things to play out than I was expecting.

Savage_Amusement

Even better: you wake up down 50% because of a good read out that was already expected or maybe didn’t say the magic words in the PR or just fuck you it’s biotech we’ll tank it when we want to.

squeagy

If my dad was a hedge fund owning Congressman, I think I could make money too and have my PR people make some of these zingers for the peons.

SPAC_Time

Interesting pivot by deSPAC Allied Gaming ( AGAE ), which has recently brought on new management and changed their name to "All In FutureTech Alliance Inc" with an upcoming ticker change to AIFA to follow. Today's PR: [Major Announcement: US$4.0 Billion Valuation and a US$10.00 Per Share Reference Price, AGAE to Issue Shares to Acquire HyalRoute, a Scarce Southeast Asian Fiber-Optic Infrastructure Leader, Transforming into a Global AI Optical Network Platform Combining “Optical Compute + Optical Transmission”](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/05/22/3300129/0/en/major-announcement-us-4-0-billion-valuation-and-a-us-10-00-per-share-reference-price-agae-to-issue-shares-to-acquire-hyalroute-a-scarce-southeast-asian-fiber-optic-infrastructure-l.html) AGAE will be issuing new shares, valued at $10 each, to buy a controlling interest in an pan-ASEAN undersea fiber cable company that is also developing a compute center in ASEAN. AGAE has [scheduled a shareholder vote to approve a reverse split](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1708341/000121390026059680/ea0290065-02.htm) for June 1. Hard to tell if the "$10 per share" will be pre-split or post split. AGAE up about 25% to 75 cents on heavy trading.

SoloOutdoor

I hope everyone at work realizes its a holiday weekend and just shuts the fuck up. Also, do not create any new PR's rat beard.

nlomb

PR team probably saw the "peace prize" nonsense and thought they'd be better off.

MaximusMeridiusD

Here is my read on this, and I've spent some time digging in. Kopin already has this underlying tech. They’ve been building Neural microdisplays for the military for years, literally sending high-density light to a screen. The pivot here is using that exact same light generation as a pure information conduit. The upside? You get the speed of light data transfer without the massive heat, power drain, and packaging complexity of traditional laser photonics. It completely bypasses the copper bottleneck that is currently choking AI data centers. As for why FABC makes sense, it is a deliberate bear trap engineered by Silverman: * **The Micro-Float:** The actual tradable float is sitting at roughly 1.46 million shares. Sell-side liquidity is practically non-existent. * **The CUSIP Trap:** They took over a heavily shorted legacy shell (SBLX), executed a reverse split, and changed the ticker. This forced a CUSIP change, trapping legacy naked shorts who physically cannot borrow enough shares to short it down to cover their FTDs. * **The Capital Validation:** Kopin didn't just sign a generic PR. They took a 19.9% equity stake in FABC and committed a $15 million development order. That is hard capital backing the tech. Bottom line: Kopin and FABC have a bench prototype and NDAs with two major chip makers. If this pans out… you need to buckle up.

MaximusMeridiusD

Here is my read on this, and I've spent some time digging in. Kopin already has this underlying tech. They’ve been building Neural microdisplays for the military for years, literally sending high-density light to a screen. The pivot here is using that exact same light generation as a pure information conduit. The upside? You get the speed of light data transfer without the massive heat, power drain, and packaging complexity of traditional laser photonics. It completely bypasses the copper bottleneck that is currently choking AI data centers. See image with a model. As for why FABC makes sense, I think it is a deliberate bear trap engineered by Silverman: The actual tradable float for FABC is sitting at roughly 1.46 million shares. Sell-side liquidity is practically non-existent. They took over a heavily shorted legacy shell (SBLX), executed a reverse split, and changed the ticker. This forced a CUSIP change, trapping legacy naked shorts who physically cannot borrow enough shares to short it down to cover their FTDs. https://preview.redd.it/q0vgy8k2wj2h1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5e14e1ba615c75f58f0de1b3bc1c343465f0092 Kopin didn’t just sign a generic PR. They took a 19.9% equity stake in FABC and committed a $15 million development order. That is hard capital backing the tech. Bottom line if Kopin and FABC have a bench prototype and NDAs with two major chip makers. If this pans out… you need to buckle up.

throwawayforreps

This was my job. I basically only trade pharma companies. This drug is dumb as shit and will not show benefit, this same management team has been responsible for 1:30000 reverse splits before. Anavex and Galena aren't in retail traders minds but the sharp ones who have been doing this for years know the team associated with this company well. Will be picking up puts whenever company PR's 80/80 events. PT \~0.5$

Relative-Wealth-3335

Feels like we’re in a global casino. Arm’s revenue is growing however the P/E ratio is outrages (ultra overvalued). Many companies are heavily branding themselves around AI, and investors are buying into the future narrative. Don’t blindly trust the news or PR. Invest objectively. Softbank still owns about 90% of, and they need to push Arm stock price as high as possible to help offset the investment of OpenAI.

SPAC_Time

[Eric Swider Addresses Trump Media Board Departure, Turns Full Attention to New Venture, Rubidex, a Secure Distributed Intelligence Platform](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/05/21/3299258/0/en/eric-swider-addresses-trump-media-board-departure-turns-full-attention-to-new-venture-rubidex-a-secure-distributed-intelligence-platform.html) Swider is also CEO of RTAC, but that SPAC is not mentioned in the PR.

you_are_temporary

I mean they’ve hit the apex of what they can achieve at this point, right? From a parks and experiences standpoint they’re already priced at the absolute maximum they can be. The brand has already taken a PR hit from being so notoriously and unbelievably expensive.

ptexpat

There was a time a few years back when every public company CEO was clamoring to have a press release highlighting a partnership with NVDA. The exact nature of the partnership who cared. Just needed a PR with NVDA. I feel we are now in the "get me whatever PR you can highlighting a partnership with Anthropic" mode.

Ok-Standard-4296

Nothing burger. Its PR to help them stop a post earnings slide. Same with raising dividends.

flatfisher

This, software development job postings are actually starting to increase again. AI models that can replace workers without oversight are not on the horizon with current architectures. It’s a huge productivity multiplier though. So once we are out of the recession that must not be named AI might actually cause an employment boom. I own a small agency, and already my employees are more productive, we can take more work, so I’m hiring. Don’t fall for big tech PR.

RedditTechAnon

Did anything constructive come out of this visit besides it being a taxpayer-funded vacation for every high net worth CEO in the United States? All I saw out of this was China getting a PR win while accurately diagnosing the decline of the U.S. empire in their messaging while all the U.S. "delegation" had was a propaganda failure and no meaningful results.

GrandAd5014

They are being used by Google i think. A Google PR could send it flying

Rehcraeser

Probably because the price tanked after the horrible PR they got, and the company was undervalued. Isn’t this a stocks sub? This is basic shit. T he person managing his money made a pretty decent trade.

doctorsidehustle

Cheers! I like exhibit 5. Take a gander through the list. Identify what did not pop during this last up-swing and invest in that. For example, I’m not going to buy the star equities in the semiconductor (think AMD), cloud services (think NBIS) or space right now (think RKLB). It’s just too hot even with a little bit of steam blowing off over the last two trading days. Digitization has had major corrections and is starting to make a limited comeback but the critique about their moats in the face of AI is still out there. The areas of growth that are nearing support are nuclear (OKLO, SMR, etc), battery, robotics (eg SYM), and future air mobility (ACHR, JOBY). My favorite with short term catalysts is ACHR. Major PR moves tied to World Cup. It’s not as good a company as JOBY (which I’d choose if I had to pick one of these for a long term hold), but it’s a nice short play.

EmbarrassedPart1256

Get ready for $CAPS to run tomorrow with [their ER](https://capstoneholdingcorp.com/capstone-holding-corp-provides-filing-timeline-for-q1-2026-results/) 🤙 Why would they PR a late filing & do it on a Wednesday if it were going to be bad? Debt's been largely converted, the business is thriving ([not considering bankruptcy](https://capstoneholdingcorp.com/capstone-faq-may-2026/)), & the stock is majorly oversold (overbought? The float doesn't exist). Be greedy when others are fearful...

JeffTheOmega1

We got the 1.45 gap filled on that daily. Lets see WRAP grind up for the $2+ move Could use some more PR too

EmbarrassedPart1256

I may just take the morning off, not lose a ton of money just to motivate myself to make it back like yesterday (still netted gains). [$CAPS earnings should come tomorrow](https://capstoneholdingcorp.com/capstone-holding-corp-provides-filing-timeline-for-q1-2026-results/). The stocks looking pretty funny; it’s stopped going down. Why would they PR a late ER if it weren’t going to be good? I’m telling you, business is booming… 🤙

Africool

Those projects are subsidized by tax payer money. Whatever science and political power it generates goes into Gates’ other projects. The Gates Foundation is very actively engaged in helping the rich and and advancing corporate interests like exporting Pfizer or Monsanto (now Bayer). Don’t think of multi billionaires charities as actual charities. It’s PR-spin and a clever way of allocating resources. Do you think Mark Zuckerberg’s charity is a force of good too? I can recommend the book The Bill Gates Problem.

MrPresident2424

Been digging deep into $GDC the last few days and honestly this is one of the strangest microcap setups I’ve seen in a long time. Not saying it’s risk free at all because the dilution fears are very real, but I also think the market may be pricing in a complete worst-case scenario right now. • SEC-linked filings tied to a 7,500 BTC treasury through the Pallas transaction • 39,189,344 shares issued in the deal and a large portion appears to be restricted/affiliate-held, not just instantly dumped retail shares • Same parties tied to the Pallas structure later showed up in the $10.75 consortium proposal • Company formed a special committee instead of instantly rejecting the offer • Massive ATM + reverse split fears caused a 90%+ collapse and completely nuked trust • Despite that, this thing STILL trades insane volume relative to its market cap and float and keeps finding buyers around the .13-.14 range • Borrow rates, short volume, and social engagement are all still elevated • Company has stayed unusually silent instead of doing the typical penny stock nonstop PR pump campaign The whole trade basically comes down to this: is this a dilution death spiral the market correctly sniffed out, or did the market massively overreact and completely misprice the treasury/control structure? That’s why this thing keeps getting so much attention even after getting destroyed. NFA. Yes, I have a position and yes, I'll show it shamelessly because I know it's a hell of a gamble. I know the risk.

CroissantEtrange

> You guys know two things can be true at once, right? Like the fact that he's both donating AND spending that money. Instead of paying his fair share of taxes, he's donating the money to his own foundation and decides what it's going to be spent on. Yes, it's spent on good causes, but it's still up to him to decide which problems he wants to solve. When I pay my taxes, it's mostly spent on national programs (universal healthcare, pensions, infrastructure, ...) contributing to the property of my own country. As citizens, we can influence these spendings by voting for specific political parties. Whereas he's basically doing whatever is relevant to him with his taxes, and getting a lot of PR and credit for it. It's better than no philanthropy at all, but it's still a very beneficial system for billionaires.

tommyohohoh

Adobe products are shit. Zero innovation, and the people who are forced to use their products are in the industries most targeted by AI (illustration, photography, compositions, print). Even if their products were good and up-to-date with modern workflows I'd be bearish, but they're not. When you use any of their big products PS, AI, ID, AE, PR they feel old as shit, clunky, all them work differently (different keyboard shortcuts, etc). I just paid money to get out of my Adobe contract. First time in 20 years I'm not giving Adobe hundreds of dollars per year. Couldn't be happier.

AusDaes

Sometimes it's not about the legal victory but about the PR, and any sane person should see how badly Elon was lied to

Prudent-Corgi3793

It's not about rooting for one side or another. It was about the legal merits (or lack thereof) of the case. This was a completely frivolous suit: part PR stunt, part attempt to stifle a competitor.

Boymom1505

i saw it but no PR or anything to push it up!! i am already down 30%.

J_Tumes

Appreciate the honesty. All good , I was just curious what your thoughts were. I’ve been playing the dips. Had a great dip buy on Friday and missed my exit today. Now hoping for a little momentum squeeze for NVDA earnings and will probably settle off and see where it’s going to next. Agreed the macro looks quite bleak but there’s always a chance things backfire on the bears. One good PR and sentiment rockets. AMC Trained me for diamond hand days like these. Good luck man!

JBurton90

Been in MVIS years. Deep. Really hoping for a turnaround soon. Can only take so many more "today is a great day for some PR" posts over on /r/MVIS lol.

EmbarrassedPart1256

$CTM PR: remember to vote yes to authorize awarding us more shares for not growing the business please & thank you!

BIGPOTHEAD

Release the PR about dilution

West_Lavishness6689

damn, COO is down 30%, might be a good time to get better PR manager and fix this tanking bird

melvinzee

IREN management have been running the stock up on rumours of a deal for 7 months now, pretty great PR work, but seriously, wen deal?

hayl4bulb

We might get PR in 90mins as they usually release stuff at 6:30 EDT

EmbarrassedPart1256

$CAPS has always been like that, with an order book that’s virtually nonexistent; the SP can jump with almost no buying because there aren’t sellers. The float’s just under 10M on paper but clearly it’s a lot less judging by the average volume (especially excluding the recent 100M day); mathematically there can’t be too many shareholders here (literally 100 people with my position size, that’s it), as this isn’t a pump & dump that everyone gets a piece of, but rather an accumulate & hold stock. Any sort of buying pressure would send it, any lack of buying pressure & it’ll dip just as easily. These tickers are volatile until there’s sustained demand. I don’t even care about the price anymore; I know the equity has value & al happy to hold it. $QXO & $CAT are great examples of quiet compounders, not flashy tech (although Capstone is literally revolutionizing their industry with a tech-first approach); infrastructure will always be relevant. QoQ, the investment thesis will become harder & harder to ignore. If you go on LinkedIn ([Instone](https://www.linkedin.com/company/instone-co-/) & [CSI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/csi-aninstonecompany/), Capstone’s operating subsidiaries), business is booming. I hadn’t realized until yesterday that [they put out a PR regarding their late ER filing](https://capstoneholdingcorp.com/capstone-holding-corp-provides-filing-timeline-for-q1-2026-results/). Now why would they do that if it were going to be bad? [$6 has always been my low-ball, starting price target](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KJNrdkTTJBX2dqwBlRSR6dgyTy6YWybm/view?usp=drivesdk). Joseph Gunnar & CO’s analysis (before Capstone acquired Canadian Stone Industries, before [all the bullish developments from this year](https://capstoneholdingcorp.com/news/), too many to recount here) is sound, not just a random number coming out of nowhere. It’s playing out in real-time if you cross-reference their business developments. This stock just doesn’t have eyes yet; when the thesis catches on, a re-rate can be violent. I experienced it first-hand with $KULR & $CTM, & $OPEN was a more recent example, a mix more sustained re-rate. The more that the ticker is mentioned, the more it will catch on. Thanks for the shoutout, & thanks for letting me share 🤙

TomorrowPlenty9205

The average PR ratio for the S&P500 is about 30. To match this a $1.5T evaluation should be earning of $50B per year. There is also a question of profitable and growth. Spacex has $18.7B in revenue, ran a $5 billion loss and has a growth of 43% YoY. To realistically be worth $1.5T, it would need to keep the 43% growth for the next 3 years in a row, while changing that $5B in losses to $20B profit. This would put it close to broadcom, with it's $1.7T market cap, $68.28 Billion in revenue and $24.97 Billion in profit.

TexasMortgageBroker1

DEAR CEO, It's us. The Reddit traders. The people who stare at AUUD's chart like it's a Magic Eye puzzle and we're waiting for a spaceship to appear. We're not asking for a PR. We're not asking for a catalyst. We're just trying to understand why the borrow rate is 586%, which is the kind of number you see right before a villain monologue. Meanwhile: • Short interest is doing Olympic gymnastics • Shares available are hiding in the Upside Down • The float is so tiny it could fit inside a Funko Pop box If you accidentally drop news someday, cool. If not, we'll just be here, refreshing Level 2 like it's a personality trait and arguing with strangers who have anime profile pictures. Sincerely, Retail (We bought the dip... then the dip dipped... then the dip sent us a breakup text)

TexasMortgageBroker1

DEAR CEO, It's us. The Reddit traders. The people who stare at AUUD's chart like it's a Magic Eye puzzle and we're waiting for a spaceship to appear. We're not asking for a PR. We're not asking for a catalyst. We're just trying to understand why the borrow rate is 586%, which is the kind of number you see right before a villain monologue. Meanwhile: • Short interest is doing Olympic gymnastics • Shares available are hiding in the Upside Down • The float is so tiny it could fit inside a Funko Pop box If you accidentally drop news someday, cool. If not, we'll just be here, refreshing Level 2 like it's a personality trait and arguing with strangers who have anime profile pictures. Sincerely, Retail (We bought the dip... then the dip dipped... then the dip sent us a breakup text)

Master_Bayters

Of course he has. He doesn't do any of these posts. It's the weirdest PR ever, to make him look a demented old fella while he steals all the money possible from the Americans in what, 2 years?   I'm tired of hearing people calling him demented while he does every single thing with purpose. He his pure evil, but he isn't demented, I just wants you to think that so he can get away with your money.  Sincerely,  a non American watching the circus from outside 

EmbarrassedPart1256

AND [$CAPS PR’ed the late ER filing](https://capstoneholdingcorp.com/capstone-holding-corp-provides-filing-timeline-for-q1-2026-results/) & put a positive spin on it, saying they’ll file Wednesday? Why would they do that if it were gonna be bad y’all? Be greedy when others are fearful 🤙

Loose_Hornet4126

Now THIS is the Wallstreet I stand behind. Some trash fake PR event with the words AI printed. Bullish until the money stops. As Truman said "the buck stops here". It's when AI slop tries to hype up their own hype and inflation

Fluffy-Structure-368

That was the original PR spin, since then other employees have come forward with some petty damning accusations that aren't as bad as the original dude but still really bad.

Vegetable_Review4967

Is that so, or is that a PR firm astroturfing things? Remember the McDonalds coffee too hot case, where the same thing happened and everyone was misinformed through a McDonald's led PR campaign?

InsanityCore

Birds aren't real it's just a PR move by the Dinosaurs after the fucked up the planet and blamed it on a space rock.

lionlxh

I am not an expert in software stocks, but let me give it a try. \------ Even if there's no AI, Adobe is in a severe business **crisis**: **Canva** almost killed InDesign and Illustrator, 4B ARR, **+46%** YoY. Blackmagic Design (**DaVinci Resolve** \+ Hardwares) took away a portion of PR/AE's professional user share, 0.6B Sales, **\~+15%** YoY. **Figma** completely killed XD, 1.4B Sales, **+35%** YoY. **CapCut** (ByteDance) took away PR/AE's low-to-mid-end user share, 0.8B Sales, **+31%** YoY. (BTW, Bytedance has 30B CapEx + R&D, Adobe has 4.5B.) **Affinity** took away a portion of Photoshop's share, 100M Sales, one-time purchase. **CSP** took away a portion of Photoshop's share, 40M ARR, **+26%** YoY. BTW, there is **Krita** which is FOSS. (Think about what Blender and Godot did to the industry.) **Procreate** almost killed Fresco, 30M Sales, **\~+12%** YoY. Lightroom has no obvious single competitor, but in reality, it's being carved up, and it's basically non-existent on mobile. \------ If we talk about AI: Firstly, all of Adobe's tools are **NOT agent-friendly**. Figma and Krita are the best interm of agent-friendly. Canva is a disaster. Express is better than Canva and has the potential. But the problem is, Adobe was afraid that Express would hurt their traditional tools. So they deliberately withholded core functions. The Firefly image model has been destroyed by **GPT Image, Google Nano Banana, Bytedance Seedream, Alibaba Wan/Qwen-Image/Z-Image/Ovis-Image, Flux**... **Copyright compliance** (which is firefly's only advantage) looks like a moat, but it's **not**. **R&D capability** is the real key. If a model provider can make a good copyright non-compliant, they can make a copyright compliance one too, the reverse is not true. The video model (Rephrase.ai) has been destroyed by **Google Veo, ByteDance Seedance, Kuaishou Kling, Alibaba Wan**. The key here is, who has the **DATA**. (Alibaba might look weird, but they have Youku and Alibaba Pictures.) In principle, Meta, Sony, Tencent, Netflix also have high-quality video data, and might also enter the game. Adobe obviously has **NOTHING**, and it's physically impossible to compete. Firefly now had no choice but to integrates most of the US models above, but first, **the model providers siphon off the core profits**, and second, Canva integrates the **exact SAME models,** so Firefly has no moat. \------ Talking about Adobe: **Creative Cloud**, 14.2B, +12% The total revenue of the competitors mentioned above exceeds 7B, and creative tools have had a massive amount of **market share taken away**. Note a very serious thing: Creative overall is constantly **raising prices**, roughly estimated to have increased by 8%\~14% in '25, which means Creative Cloud's **organic growth is between -3.7%\~1.8%**. >e.g. Creative Cloud All Apps ($59.99) -> Creative Cloud Pro ($69.99) Document Cloud, 3.5B, **+15%** This is good news, Adobe PDF is eating away DocuSign's (NASDAQ: DOCU) share, which only has an +8% growth rate. Experience Cloud, 5.8B, +9.3% Competing heavily with Salesforce and Google. CRM is also considered the SaaS industry most easily replaced by AI. \------ Then again, as long as the price is right, even if growth is 0%, it can be considered. At this price, there are two ways we can bet on this: 1. **Kill itself**: Develop modern web-based applications from scratch—agent-friendly, high performance, modern features that meet current needs, completely backward incompatible, with a user experience no worse than Canva and CapCut—and compete directly with its own old products, including Pr and AE. If so, there might be a **massive valuation repair**. Because growth fixes DCFs. 2. Accept reality and **give up the struggle**. As long as management gives up the struggle, cuts expansionary spending (half of R&D, half of marketing, a quarter of G&A), and starts epic buybacks + dividend payouts, you will not only get these **shareholder returns** but also a **valuation boost**. To give two examples: **Philip Morris (MO)** and **Sage Group (LON:SGE)**. After the former started with 0% growth in 2018, its dividend-adjusted CAGR is 18%, and the latter is 16%. But the premise here is proving that it is truly **NOT IN DECLINE** but zero-growth (so that the DCF model will not give a result of **ZERO** ). Although the latter is a "tech stock," its **business model** is very solid. But this is not 100% guaranteed. For **Check Point (CHKP)**, the company's net profit growth from 2014 to 2024 was 4.5%, the share cancellation rate was 4.25%, and the company's dividend-adjusted stock price CAGR was indeed roughly 10% — meaning almost no valuation expansion. If counted from 2014 to present, the CAGR is 5.4%. The worst examples are the vast majority of SaaS stocks that dropped 80%, because hardly any SaaS companies that failed to compete can manage to stay flat without declining; 99% of the time, a **sudden death** would happen. Personally, I don't think it's worth it. **High growth + low valuation** = a lot of margin for error. **Low growth + low valuation** = opening a mystery box. Unless the business model is so solid that it doesn't even look like SaaS (like Sage Group/RELX Plc, but they're not cheap at all).

Dihydrogen-monoxyde

Very simple: Buy 10K of $NVDIA back in 1999, move to PR before July 1st to avoid fed tax on capital gains, and you should be able to afford all 3 easily. /S

Lower_Skin_3683

I stayed in shared housing in PR where one of the 1950's bathrooms had a pretty pink bidet. No one used it because of water and power shortages.

Cedar_Wood_State

That’s how many of these penny stocks ‘partnerships’ PR are. ‘Strategic partnership’ but in reality is just they are the client

Icy-Emergency-1152

he could have bought Nvidia bonds. He’s talked about buying corporate bonds in the past. Or… hear me out… he knows thousands of investors are scrutinizing his transactions and his PR or investment team chooses each of them for a very specific reason. It may keep pumping higher. But for all we know, he could have sold it yesterday or the day before.

TexasMortgageBroker1

AUUD's setup is fully loaded: 433,654 shares short on NASDAQ, a 0.03 days-to-cover ratio, and an insane 24.4M off-exchange short volume (57.67% dark-pool shorting). Borrow cost is over 500%, and shares available to borrow are basically zero. This is a classic microfloat pressure-cooker — the only missing piece is a catalyst. It doesn't need to be the S-4 or the merger; any spark (Nasdaq compliance PR, patent news, Al announcement, partnership update) can force shorts to unwind in a crowded, illiquid setup like this.

TexasMortgageBroker1

AUUD's setup is fully loaded: 433,654 shares short on NASDAQ, a 0.03 days-to-cover ratio, and an insane 24.4M off-exchange short volume (57.67% dark-pool shorting). Borrow cost is over 500%, and shares available to borrow are basically zero. This is a classic microfloat pressure-cooker — the only missing piece is a catalyst. It doesn't need to be the S-4 or the merger; any spark (Nasdaq compliance PR, patent news, Al announcement, partnership update) can force shorts to unwind in a crowded, illiquid setup like this.

VenomBite214

Give the PR department like 3 weeks to frame it nicely. And Barron needs few more days to place his bets. Patience please

value1024

You have some reading comprehension issues if that is only the point you are taking from the entire post. The management issued a wire saying they would go live on the 15h. Then, they said to some idiots on stocktwits that they would issue financials for Q1 today, which was never verified but people expected the numbers today. The company never issued a single wire today about the platform or the financials. they stayed mum all day. They fumbled a major event from a PR perspective, and given their unprofessionalism, I think they will run this into the ground.

Biostatistix

Incredible how he fumbled such an easy PR win.

Ok_Ground9015

We really need some volume. TTF Gas on the steady rise. The whole oil and gas sector is up. Those earnings are top notch. Some of the best earnings and PR I've seen in a while. I'm hoping we can get a analyst price increase.

SPAC_Time

[Eight Directions Technology Limited Announces Entering into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with Quartzsea Acquisition Corporation](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/05/14/3294586/0/en/eight-directions-technology-limited-announces-entering-into-an-agreement-and-plan-of-merger-with-quartzsea-acquisition-corporation.html) \- QSEA QSEAR "Eight Directions, through its subsidiary in Los Angeles, is a solution provider of premium customized disposable products, specializing in PET cups, lids, and related packaging solutions for a wide range of end markets." Missed this PR from last night. QSEA had a definitive agreement with Broadway Technology Inc, but terminated that in March. QSEAR = Rights, each right entitling the holder to receive one-fifth of one ordinary share

MrUsername0

It's all exactly true. 2024 Annual Report (They did plant to move their main office to the US based on a recent short report) "D. Property, Plants and Equipment. The Company’s head Canadian office is located in a 400 sq. ft. leased office space in Toronto, Ontario, Canada" May 14 PR: "Engineering samples from this joint development program are expected in late 2026, with production ramp aligned to hyperscaler customer deployments in 2027."

EmbarrassedPart1256

Nope just that it's somewhat undervalued if you take out bankruptcy risk, & earnings are due anytime (they're late & facing delisting); I did some DD on it & was in & out a few weeks ago. I didn't like it too much... [$GMEX just published a fresh PR today](https://biznewsdaily.com/technology/gmex-robotics-receives-first-deployment-order-for-bon-vivant-3-0-cooking-robot-machines/), has a suer low float, & is still flying under the radar...

EmbarrassedPart1256

Nope it's pretty dead (can't find much about the company online because it's Chinese) & headed for delisting if they don't publish their earnings. The books are interesting though, making it seem pretty undervalued... I'm much more interested in $GMEX; [they just published a PR today](https://biznewsdaily.com/technology/gmex-robotics-receives-first-deployment-order-for-bon-vivant-3-0-cooking-robot-machines/) & are active on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gmex-robotics/posts/?feedView=all)...

igotitithink

Looks like a possible squeeze on $AIIO. Couple halts this morning on the run up. Product capabilities in compression is awesome, lots of savings to offer to clients; as of recent PR release. 52 week high of $69 Share lock-down.

ClearlyCylindrical

Always funny watching stock people with no industry experience trying to interpret company PR

3brcuse

posted PR with AT&T Verizon TMobile with CEO backing it up. could be nothing but i think something's coming, maybe shipment news

Star_Lord924

Ive done them on either days. But that depends on how my block is set up and that usually would he my heavier compound movement during that block. I have such a love hate relationship with dead lifts. Its my strongest lift by far. 545lb PR but I hate how sore I am 2 days later and my golf swing gets fucked up because I have to use more arms lol