PR

phatelectribe

It’s actually mainly nickel according the makeup of the nodules collected so far, and which 85% of the worlds nickel supply goes to stainless steel manufacturing. The whole “TMC is going to save the world by making ev batteries!1!!” Is just more bullshit from Barron. It’s pure greenwashing PR spin. It’s just a way to mine nickel, which the vast majority goes in to unsexy, un ecological manufacturing processes. In fact EV batteries count for about 3% of nickel consumption. The rest of the 15% that isn’t used for stainless goes in to other things like normal battery products and other industrial processes which are pretty terrible for the planet. And you shouldn’t be cheering Hess and Spiro lol. Hess is a hedge fund oil guy and Spiro was hired to help them fight the various lawsuits for misrepresentation lololol.

UsedMusicia

Shorts used up a lot of shares trying to keep this down, This week week it ran to .64 and reached around 12M volume, Think shorts r trapped and haven't covered yet and we can squeeze them. Also its a crypto related ticker, imagine a Crypto PR.

lenzflare

It's a fake promise for stupid people. He's doing PR, all the time

No_Leek_1398

Meanwhile $ESMC isn’t PR’ing shot and getting things done, *actually* profitable…

jasta85

A major firm does not want to deal with the penalties/fines/lawsuits involved in fraud/stealing, not to mention the damage it could do to their reputation with other high profile clients (the wealthy have plenty of options where to put their money, if a company has a track record of fraud and stealing from its clients, at least some of them are going to move their money somewhere else). If a rogue employee is stealing client money, a major company will want to resolve the situation as quickly and quietly as possible to minimize the bad PR which usually means settling with the person affected by the crime.

SunlitShadows466

This is a PR piece, "Issued on behalf of Scope Technologies Corp."

Far-Nefariousness485

This post is full of half-baked takes dressed up like analysis. Tariffs were never meant to magically rebuild Detroit in four years. That’s not how global supply chains or labor economics work. But pretending they accomplished nothing is either dishonest or incredibly naive. We’ve already seen production shift to Vietnam, Mexico, and yes—even parts of the U.S. This is a long game, not a PR stunt. And let’s be clear: our trade relationships were deteriorating well before Trump. China has been eating our lunch on IP theft, forced tech transfers, and dumping for decades. Tariffs finally forced that conversation into the open. You think the EU isn’t watching closely? They’re implementing their own version of economic nationalism now too. As for the “tariffs were supposed to replace income tax” line—that’s just fantasyland Reddit logic. That was never a real policy proposal. It was an idea tossed around by internet echo chambers, not actual fiscal planning. If you want to criticize execution, fine. But calling the entire strategy a failure ignores everything happening beneath the surface. It reeks of wanting it to fail just like most liberals viciously ‘celebrated’ in unison that the stock market had “crashed” not objectively looking at what it did.

Worldly_Scarcity2179

You could use that same logic about Bernie Madoff. The signs where pretty clear his operation was a fraud people still piled money into it because they believed in his PR image as a genius investor. That doesn't make the fraud any less illegal. 

cookiekid6

Yeah it’s a really interesting concept I think the thinking is to utilize hydrogen as a battery while having another power source. It’s very clear that the only realistic way for the U.S. to bring back manufacturing along with AI is nuclear and in the next two decades to bring fusion. Hydrogen would hypothetically be used like a battery because it’s a lot easier than lithium. I think in the next 30 years it will be fusion but SMRs are the most likely power source until then. Nuclear has had the worst PR campaign and is the best power source. Not an expert but a layman’s opinion so this could be completely wrong.

No_Leek_1398

You can say $CTM is the next $PLTR all you want - the most recent PR makes me think $CTM’s gearing up to be an offshoot of $CACI 🤙

LAnormal

Reads like it was written by the Vietnamese PR team

KillerBurger69

The dude literally didn’t look at data… he just stating the reddit take of “oh foreigners not coming to US, fear monger blah blah.” > I think the perception now is that America hates foreigners and does not adhere to its own laws or constitution, not great PR for the tourist industry He has no idea about that, because he doesn’t live in America lol. HELL Reddit doesn’t know. Half the world is semi poor and isn’t traveling. Weirdly it should start increasing more as US dollar value decrease and foreign currency can be spent more here.

dan_pitt

At this point, anyone who says "Trump is never going to do X, Y, or Z," just looks ridiculous. These are the people in utter denial, or else they work for MAGA-hired PR firms. More likely, he'll just create another fake crisis, and do an end-run around the Fed altogether. His cult will follow him off any cliff he chooses.

melvincaneatmyshorts

Bull just needs some good PR to drop and this thing will run even harder

ReclusiveReviews

I think the perception now is that America hates foreigners and does not adhere to its own laws or constitution, not great PR for the tourist industry

Thraex_Exile

I’d assume they’re also significantly less affected by tariff supply issues, meaning they can invest more on sales/PR and less on import taxes. Their “From America, for America” campaign was probably an easy win.

byggusdikkus

I have a decent chunk of land, no neighborhood doggos to worry about. Animals down here are pretty used to it in general as well, every holiday sounds like ww3 breaking out in PR. If you live in the mountains or get up high enough you can see the entire island shooting off fireworks, it’s actually pretty cool.

Environmental-Meal14

I thanked you for the catch, but appreciate the name-calling. As for Tekne, they can't afford it without diluting more. It's still a PR hype.

SamsUserProfile

Why sell off a company that had literally all sell-off events possible to a cunt company with high profits already happen? Lawsuits Bad PR Failed restructuring (and now slowly positive) Money loss (and now being recouped) You're gambling on a "not-today" chance it won't have an ounce of positive news. Any worse is hard to accomplish, except for their Q being poor due to latedragged results from the abovementioned.

BeneficialCapital108

Totally fair if you’re analyzing it as a long-term investment but that’s not the angle here. The downside is kind of limited in the short term, making it an asymmetric setup for a trade. This isn’t a 5 year hold. It’s a high risk, high-reward trade. Beaten down small caps like this with real revenue and low floats can rip 100–300%+ off oversold bottoms. It only takes a volume surge, a PR, or momentum shift not long term profitability. This setup is about asymmetric upside, not patience. Different playbook entirely.

iD-10T_usererror

If people missed the very public, and very obvious salutes, let's not forget the social media post he reposted that said: "Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did." I mean... If this guy can run a PR campaign to help clear Hitler's bad name, what could go wrong with him picking up the sales effort in Europe? Seriously... We all know what he is.

Jaded-Influence6184

We don't want shit hormone enriched dairy in Canada. And we don't want our farms driven out of business by American farms that can't make money without feeding their animals shit. Never mind the MASSIVE subsidies the US farmers get. You may not want to understand, but US farmers are probably the most heavily subsidized in the western world. It is all just PR sham by US politicians that farmers are so hard done by in America. Tell them to farm without subsidies, and your argument might have a leg to stand on.

ConvertedGuy

May average down on SKYX today. Their product is great and really changes the game for how lighting is installed. Their PR team is mega doodoo lately but I believe as more contracts come this will be an easy 10x bagger.

HumbleFigure1118

Yup, very true. They wouldn't sign anything. Its all gonna be a PR show.

Ok_Ground9015

Oh, it definitely is. Things will start getting interesting tomorrow. The shorts don't even want to touch this one. Also 6:30am on Tuesdays is when they like to drop PR and they have plenty of rocket fuel PR to keep this thing flying for the whole month of July.

ConvertedGuy

I'm having trouble finding out if it was a new investment, or just a re-report of their existing holding that triggered some of the auto updating websites. I'm also having trouble finding anything that implies that they made it to the Russell 2000 in writing officially. I'm bullish, but their PR team can eat a fart. Asleep at the wheel big time.

JustLurkCarryOn

Way to be. It’s funny to me how people cannot see the parallels between this and ASTS. Unproven tech that gets shorted into the dirt over years until a PR changes the game. Will be $20 this year IMO.

cagey_tiger

It wasn't that they were diluting, but how they were doing it. e.g. they announced a $100m dollar deal with Google in early Jan last year after hours, then diluted a few days later. The stock never had a chance to run at any point. From the outside it looked like they either didn't know what they were doing business wise or in a reaaaally bad way cash wise. The first thing I saw was a video of AST doing a facetime call over satellite in the middle of nowhere in Hawaii which freaked me out really - they were literally years ahead of the competition. I read the KOOK Report (excellent DD, if you're thinking of going in just skim it). I did a load of research on Abel and it was what flipped my thinking. He's a sat engineer that started a small company called Emerging Market Comms and sold it for $500m to fund AST in the US. He can build these sats AST are building by himself, given enough time, the initial tech/idea is from him. He's not a CEO looking to build and run - he's an engineer who really believes this shit will change/help the world (and make him a fuck ton of money obviously). I think looking back their strategy was to keep everything quiet as possible not to force Starlink, Lynk etc into moving sooner on D2C. We've known they've been involved with Fairwinds for like 3 years, but only last week they put out some PR that they've successfully tested with all of the US defence arms, Navy, Army etc.

cagey_tiger

There's loads of good tips here if you do you're own DD. I saw a comment here that gave me a chubby back in January last year - was something like 'How the fuck can ASTS have such good tech and be such complete regards. ROPE EMOJI' (I owe that guy a pint) They were a SPAC and had dipped from $10 to $2 - they kept diluting on good news and seemed to be the worst run company in existence. No PR, delays, no money, flat out lying etc. There was even a investor lawsuit at one point. I did a load of DD (like weeks, going back through twitter history etc), read the whole of the KOOK report and was pretty blown away. At $2 it was the craziest stock I'd ever found, their TAM is pretty much every human on the planet. I got 1000 shares at $2.54 in March last year. Now at 1500 at $9.

raylan_givens6

75% VTI and chill 25% in FDLXX and use it when opportunity strikes . Like when Crowdstrike tumbled. Their fundamentals were still good, they just had bad PR.

Traditional_Ad_2348

I still don’t see a quick turnaround. UNH is subject to headwinds from a few different angles. 1. Justice department probes 2. White collar recession. Many UNH members likely get their healthcare plans paid by their corporate employers. Less employment = less enrollment. 3. Spending cuts to Medicare/Medicaid. What was once a reliable revenue source is in jeopardy or at least not as lucrative as before. 4. Payouts to an aging population of enrolled members seeking medical services is likely to increase. Coupling that with less overall revenue means the firm could experience substantially lower margins. 5. There’s much more demand for stocks of high growth tech companies and even consumer discretionary and other sectors that have been beaten up. 6. It’s just a downright hated company at this point and could very well become a value trap. Think Disney, Target, and Pfizer. Eventually, there will be a turnaround but you risk holding onto dead money for possibly years. What used to be a sure bet is now not so guaranteed. If UNH were to address their awful PR and malpractices then maybe they could experience a turnaround. Executives need to be fired, heads need to be rolled, and the board needs to get off their high horse and start doing some damage control. They are instead quite tone deaf. I am still steering clear and see better undervalued growth opportunities like GOOGL. If UNH were truly oversold, I would have expected a better bounce by now.

Professional-Dog9174

I think we’re watching a PR firefight unfold. Timeline Week 0 – Wall Street Journal Anonymous OpenAI insiders tell the WSJ that leadership is considering a “nuclear option” against Microsoft, including a public pressure campaign. Week 1 – Bloomberg A follow-up piece quotes unnamed enterprise employees who prefer ChatGPT to Microsoft Copilot, undermining Microsoft’s claim to “own” enterprise AI and positioning OpenAI as the superior choice—exactly the story OpenAI would want circulating. Week 2 – New article (today) Now we see a piece giving evidence that Microsoft is the clear enterprise AI leader, with analysts boosting their outlook. Precisely the counter-narrative Microsoft wants. Maybe I’m being a little conspiratorial, but given the sequence I'd take all of this with a grain of salt.

nhh

Under investigation? So they get more PR? Calls it is. 

Foreign-Coconut3500

The cuts aren’t always spelled out line-by-line—they’re *structural.* By tightening eligibility and increasing red tape, they effectively throttle access for long-term welfare leeches. It’s not “we’re slashing Medicaid,” it’s “we’re raising the bar so fewer people qualify.” Same outcome, different PR. Net result? Welfare economy shrinks. Good.

Walking72

1. Break it 2. Fix it badly 3. PR blitz saying you did great

MillionBEAR_

Trump has again said Canada should be the 51st state. They are not worthy. They should be a territory like PR.

Ok_Ground9015

There are some spicy rumors swirling about an $IXHL buyout or partnership. From what I've gathered, it looks like Resmed $RMD. IXHL will be getting PR this week of the change over to NASDAQ Capital Market. Phase 2 Topline results are expected to follow shortly. https://preview.redd.it/49kvoorstt9f1.png?width=958&format=png&auto=webp&s=09d1ac27606d9dbb684b779df15344a216aa62b2

Longjumping-Eye-5480

PRZO go brrr with a PR

Ok_Telephone_9395

Here are some stock I own that have some stuff coming up. Honesty they have all consistently disappointed me and will probably be bad buys. But I'm just looking for others (suckers) to join me in my suffering. 1. Ocugen (OCGN ≈ $1.08) – Monday, June 30 What’s coming: The Phase 3 OCU400 gene-therapy trial (NCT 06388200) reaches its primary completion date on June 30. Sponsors usually issue a status or “last-patient-last-visit” update within a few days of the milestone. fdaaa.trialstracker.net Bonus pressure: June 30 is also the end of Ocugen’s 180-day Nasdaq grace period to get its bid back above $1. Management can either announce compliance (if the Friday/Monday closes average ≥ $1) or say they’ll seek a second 180-day extension or a reverse split. Ocugen was removed from the Russell 1000/3000 on June 27th. ir.ocugen.com 2. Adial Pharmaceuticals (ADIL ≈ $0.46) – Tuesday, July 29 What’s coming: FDA End-of-Phase-2 meeting for AD04, its oral therapy for alcohol-use disorder. The company has already filed the briefing package; the agency meeting is locked in for July 29. Expect a same-day or next-day press release summarizing FDA feedback. adial.com nasdaq.com 3. Cellectar Biosciences (CLRB ≈ $0.88) – “Late July” What’s coming: The EMA has said it will give formal guidance in late July on whether Cellectar’s iopofosine-I-131 Phase 2 data are strong enough for a conditional marketing authorization filing in Waldenström macroglobulinemia. A positive read-through would de-risk the European strategy and usually sparks volume. cellectar.com stocktitan.net 4. AgEagle Aerial Systems (UAVS ≈ $1.08) – Early July watchlist What’s coming: Policy catalyst: AgEagle has now been invited twice to White House roundtables on the forthcoming FAA Part 108 BVLOS rule. Industry lobbyists expect the draft rule to be published “early summer,” and trade press keeps pointing to early-to-mid July for release. If the NPRM drops, every BVLOS-exposed drone stock (UAVS, DPRO, ONDS) tends to pop. globenewswire.com barchart.com Hard date: Q2 earnings are projected for Tuesday, Aug 12; the company’s last two calls went live pre-market. marketbeat.com Near-term PR cadence: AgEagle has been issuing weekly international-sales updates (100th drone in South Korea last week). More “small but frequent” contract PRs are likely. nasdaq.com 5. Kopin (KOPN ≈ $1.61) – Next week What’s coming: Kopin just wrapped its booth at Laser World of Photonics (Munich, Jun 24-27) and historically issues a post-show release within a few trading days highlighting new design wins. Watch Monday/Tuesday for that follow-up. businesswire.com Ongoing driver: The company’s AI-enabled NeuralDisplay™ prototype hit key milestones on June 25—any customer-name drop or defense design-win PR could land during its current road-show circuit. finance.yahoo.com Quick takeaways Most time-certain catalyst: OCGN’s June 30 trial milestone (and separate listing-compliance deadline) is the one you flagged—expect some form of 8-K or press release within 24-48 h. Highest binary risk/reward: ADIL and CLRB events both hinge on regulatory feedback; sparks can cut both ways, so size positions accordingly. Momentum plays: UAVS and KOPN rely more on policy or partner news than single FDA-style binary events, so moves may be smaller but can trend on successive headlines. As always, catalysts ≠ guarantees!

sockalicious

SMR was going to sell Utah a gigawatt of SMRs for $3B (2015.) In 2023, when cost overruns and regulatory burdens similar to those Westinghouse experiences with its old school LNMRs drove the price to $9.3B for a 462MW install, and the forecasted operating electricity prices weren't competitive with fossil even after subsidies were factored in, Utah cancelled the project. Tim Cook knows nothing about how to operate a nuke plant and certainly doesn't want the PR fallout from putting nuclear reactors in anyone's backyard. And these SMRs are designed to be put in your backyard. For that matter, Tim Cook doesn't seem to think AI matters yet. So everything in this pitch is wrong - and yet I'm strangely compelled by it. Long SMR

GeoLogic23

Kevin Durant is an investor in one of the largest cannabis companies that is never talked about. [Dutchie](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dutchie-worlds-largest--fastest-growing-e-commerce-solution-for-cannabis-announces-35-million-series-b-301113490.html). Dutchie has investment from some serious political players, including [Trump's own family](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dutchie-announces-350-million-financing-round-to-power-cannabis-commerce-now-valued-at-3-75-billion-301399983.html) (Thrive Capital = Josh Kushner). If Kevin Durant wanted to try to influence Trump, I'm sure he has much better ways to send him a message than writing letters. Trump is famous for being a voracious reader though, so obviously this method will be successful, and it definitely isn't just a PR stunt.

Disastrous_Soil3793

Yes I read your comment and it doesn't make any sense. The PR about the deficiencies was like 3 weeks ago. You're saying they the company already responded? OK even if that is the case it wasn't fast enough. Like I said in another comment, Ive been trading these plays for over a decade. People always read into scenarios like this way too much. It's as simple as it looks. When a PR a few weeks out from PDUFA mentions deficiencies and precluding labeling discussions it is a guaranteed CRL. Best case it would have been a PDUFA delay but that would have been announced already. This WILL be a CRL. I'll be happy to follow up on Monday after it drops.

SPAC_Time

[Welsbach Technology Metals Acquisition Corp Announces Successful Approval for its Business Combination with Evolution Metals LLC from the Extraordinary General Meeting of Stockholders on June 26, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1866226/000121390025058483/ea024719601ex99-1_welsbach.htm) \- OTC: WTMA WTMAR WTMA issued that PR yesterday. Today, they filed an 8-K with the SEC, which sounds a bit pessimistic: "In connection with the Business Combination Special Meeting and the Extension Special Meeting, the holders of 1,024,736 shares of the Company’s common stock and 518,102 shares of the Company’s common stock, respectively, properly exercised, and as of June 26, 2025 have not reversed, their right to redeem their shares for cash at a redemption price of approximately $11.31 per share. Accordingly, in connection with the Extension Special Meeting, the aggregate redemption amount was $5.86 million, leaving approximately $6.38 million in the trust account after giving effect to the redemptions in connection with the Extension Special Meeting, based on the approximately $12.24 million held in the trust account as of June 26, 2025 (less funds that may be withdrawn to pay taxes). Furthermore, in connection with the Business Combination Special Meeting, the aggregate redemption amount was $11.595.73 million, representing an additional $5.73 million aggregate redemption amount after taking into effect the redemption in connection with the Extension Special Meeting, **leaving approximately $0.66 million in the trust account after giving effect to the redemptions in connection with both the Extension Special Meeting and the Business Combination Special Meeting.** As previously disclosed, the Company extended the deadline for its stockholders to withdraw and reverse any previously delivered demand for redemption made in connection with the Business Combination Special Meeting until the Company determines not to accept reversals of redemption instructions. If a stockholder has previously submitted a request to redeem its shares in connection with the Business Combination Special Meeting and would like to reverse such request, such stockholder may contact the Company’s transfer agent, Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, at spacredemptions@continentalstock.com. The Company has determined that it will not utilize any funds from its trust account to pay any potential excise taxes that may become due upon a redemption of the Company’s public shares in connection with a liquidation of the Company if it does not effect a business combination prior to its termination date. The Company has also determined that it will not utilize any funds from its trust account to pay any dissolution expenses in connection with the liquidation of the trust account and of the Company if it does not effect a business combination prior to its termination date." Looks like about 58,000 public shares remaining after redemptions. WTMA has until September 30, 2025 to close the business combination.

ThatOneRedditBro

There's volume coming in right now. Could be people anticipating a big jump Monday. Whenever it happened to other companies they generally had a big day. If we hit $50 on Monday (Less than 10%), that could trigger the shorts to cover. My guess is some are exiting now before Monday. Mid year results should come very soon. If I were CRSP management, I would prepare the PR campaign Monday by announcing the Russell entry and share positive results so investors pile in. Combine that with a squeeze and they'll be on CNBC to get more name recognition.

Nusanss

This lines up EXACTLY with the financing structure I flagged in my DD yesterday. The 300k daily share limit creates a mathematical floor - they literally CAN'T dump without killing their own funding round. That dark pool unwind from 164M to 29M is the smoking gun. Smart money doesn't exit shorts this aggressively unless they know what's coming. HC Wainwright moving their PT to $3 right as the funding math requires $3.80? Chef's kiss timing. Been accumulating under $0.35 since I posted. The risk/reward here is stupid asymmetric when you understand the structural bid requirement. Good catch on the controlled PR cadence too - textbook price support strategy. See you at $3+

Sestos

So is there anything in his entire statement that touches upon a fact or just a mix of PR lies?

Bapu_

I think PLTR is fairly valued at 600 PR SPY is just undervalued and should be at least one thousand, maybe two or three thousand 

Advanced_Worry_5525

Conspiracy...this is just Trump & friends pumping before 4th of July for good PR then the great dump

Nusanss

[https://ir.unicycive.com/news](https://ir.unicycive.com/news) Check [FDA.gov](http://FDA.gov) press releases, company's investor relations page, or just watch your portfolio implode in real-time - that's usually faster than any official announcement 💀 Also check: * EDGAR (SEC filings) * Company Twitter/PR newswire * **Or just refresh this thread, some autist will post it within 0.3 seconds** If you're down 8% in 3 mins with no news, that's just UNCY being UNCY. High beta gonna high beta. Could be algos, could be paper hands, could be your wife's boyfriend taking profits.

TomorrowLow5092

Typical PR story. If only the story included facts about Tilray going bankrupt, or bankrupting the investors that bought Tilray since forever. My guess is they sell off everything and TLRY disappears with nothing but bad memories. Tilray, a Canadian based seller of THC beverages, vapes and flower is one of many sellers to capitalize on Italy's expansion of medical marijuana to patients.

anon999976

Last time FITY had PR it ran from 0.0008 to 0.0122. Settled at .003 definitely loading up for the next PR

Ok_Ground9015

Market Makers. The big boys holding lots of shares. Unless there is significant retail volume, the share price will hover in the same range. That's why it moves less then a cent everyday. Even on good PR days it may move 2 cents and then the MM bring it back where they want it. It's why you see this barcoding and stagnation. We don't have the volume to move it and won't have the volume to move it until the big catalyst. So I'm just sitting tight until the big announcement. When you see this thing go over .25-.30 then it will go clear to the moon with no problem. All of the shorts covering will just add fuel to the rocket.

Pristine_Hurry_4693

My best play is $DRTS. Usually the bigger the reward so it the risk, therefore many will miss real gains even when they hit. This stock is in a once in a lifetime position imho. With a market cap of only ~250M, the company has 90M+ cash, three factories, patented tech, FDA breakthrough device designation, FDA TAP program, FDA IDE’s, MDSAP certification and much more. One could argue the stock is fundamentally worth today more than the 3$ it’s trading at (even if no further approvals are granted). They have many FDA approved clinical trials going on, some in phase 2 and 3 already. They also past all the PMDA appliances and are expected approval in Japan this quarter. Their product is a new cancer treatment, with early clinical results showing 100% tumor response. The treatment (Alpha DaRT) can shrink tumors and make them disappear even in unmet needs cases. The treatment also showed a systemic immune response. I’d love to share more all about it if anyone would like to hear. The reason it isn’t trading around 10$ (already now, and could go much higher of course with the PMDA expected approval and then FDA and US commercialization in H1 2026) is because it has 0 PR and 0 retail exposure.

sunburn74

Would the US really go to war over that though? Not sure. Firstly we don't really need their oil and two it's a political and PR nightmare 

Tribaltech777

McKinsey, ATKearney, Deloitte and all these assholes along with every PR company turning corporate America into a gutted brands graveyard.

bfludz

classic PR spin. They just found a narrow angle to make a headline pop. Definitely not the “first” in any real sense.

Short_Psychology_164

they should sack their whole PR department /s

Competitive_Ride

Tired of pedro pascal. Can’t even visit the drama subs without being bombarded by his PR.

perceptive_AI

I just started eating beef liver and I realized I always break my previous PR the day after I eat it. There is something in beef liver that makes you go super saiyan and I'm only eating 150 grams.

MaximusSpider

any thoughts on $achr vs the competition -- joby, evtl, hovr? all have had sessions with 20%+ gains at points in the last two quarters. Archer, however seems to have much better PR, as they made a big splash securing rights to air taxi for the 2028 LA Olympics a few weeks ago. Jimmy Fallon did a hype piece on the tech after it was announced, and I have no doubt NBC will be parading around plenty of free PR in the lead up to 2028. Not really sure how to parse out to these companies for investing based on the quality of a tech, leadership, partnerships and scalability? I would think first mover Advantage would be pretty huge here, but I also see plenty of downside to making a big promises and then coming up short in the quality of the final product or not meeting the deadlines, IE not making enough of these air attacks and time for 2028 after all the hype.

SPAC_Time

<meta property="article:published\_time" content="2025-06-24T09:00:30+00:00" /> <meta property="article:modified\_time" content="2025-06-24T16:15:49+00:00" /> That's from the webpage code for the blog post, so yes, Tuesday. Also: "[That blog post from Nvidia on Tuesday](https://sherwood.news/markets/a-tiny-robotics-company-is-more-than-tripling-after-drawing-attention-to-its/#:~:text=That%20blog%20post%20from%20Nvidia%20on%20Tuesday) shouted out Cyngn as one of many robotics “leaders” deploying its technology. It was the first time the firm had been mentioned on Nvidia’s website, but the ramp in Cyngn didn’t really start until Wednesday’s session was nearly over." A couple of other items about CYN: CYN completed a 1 for 150 reverse split in February 2025. The max chart is ugly. CYN management apparently had no idea this NVIDIA pop would happen, because they immediately followed it up with this PR: [Cyngn Inc. Announces $15 Million Registered Direct Offering](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cyngn-inc-announces-15-million-registered-direct-offering-302492475.html) "The offering consisted of the sale of 2,994,012 shares of Common Stock (or Pre-Funded Warrants. The **public offering price per share of Common Stock is $5.01** (or $5.00999 for each Pre-Funded Warrant, which is equal to the public offering price per share of Common Stock to be sold in the offering minus an exercise price of $0.00001 per Pre-Funded Warrant)."

ImAShaaaark

> The Agency problem; internal management will always try to paint a rosy picture of their work and their departments, but that means the executives have bad information most of the time. The agency problem is just a PR friendly way of rephrasing "managerial incompetence". If you can't trust any of your subordinates to not blow smoke up your ass it's because you hired poorly and cultivated corporate culture that rewarded that type of behavior. >Consultants are sent to go fetch information from the frontline teams and piece together an **accurate** picture of the current state of the company on short notice, and to present it without judgment. The bolded part is where we disagree. They may *try* to do that, but more often than not they just yolo together some metrics without any understanding of the underlying business and roles (often with the intent of 'justifying' what executive leadership wants to do anyway) and then present it to leadership as some sort of accurate assessment. This is how you get idiotic shit like developers being measured based upon the lines of code they output. > Missing expertise; it could be a specialty in industry forecasting, depth of knowledge around a new software suite, really any skillset that's not currently used at the company. Consultants are basically borrowed employees to help fill that gap when it's too slow or not worth investing in permanent employees. I'd argue this is the only legitimately constructive contribution from MBB. > MBB have also made executive PR insurance a key part of their business model, so they set themselves up as a lightning rod for complaints or any PR fallout the executive team might experience for making significant changes in their companies. Notice how we're here blaming McKinsey, and not the CEO/Board who made the series of bad decisions? That's the PR insurance at work. Right, again the role is "act as cover for inept leadership". I don't disagree with that at all, but I am not sure that MBB are quite as much of a unwitting patsy with no hand in influencing decision making as you are making out. That all the companies they work with end up pursuing the same handful of remediation strategies seems mighty convenient. > There is, we have organizational modeling and other toolsets that handle that quite well. Of course, but that's on an one off basis, and I was talking on a national scale so that we could quantify and publish the waste and lost productivity driven by these type of recommendations. >However, modern corporations all face a fundamental tension between investor motivation for their equity/debt operations and market motivation for their revenue operations. While the two sides of the corporation benefit from each other, they don't have the same goals or incentives and often pull in opposing directions. > Most big blunders you hear about are because of that tension, and more often it's investor motivations that step in and interfere self-destructively in the revenue operations. If you ask what the market motivation was for those bad decisions, the answer is most often "just greed" but that's missing the fact that the literal job of the executive team is to monetize the business (i.e. use any invested money to make more). > As long as the current shareholders benefited from each move, long enough to leave and be replaced by other shareholders, then the long-term negative impacts on revenue operations were a fair tradeoff for meeting their equity/debt obligations. Having the company provide a good product/service, contribute to everyone's quality of living, and cultivate a happy fanbase have never been part of the executive job description. That simply isn't what they were hired to do at the company... which you'd be right to see as a flaw in the modern corporate approach. That internal disconnect is a massive, socially-corrosive problem that no one has figured out a solution to quite yet, other than confirming the other historical approaches are even more broken. A shorter way of saying this is that they are brought in by vultures seeking to extract as much short term wealth as possible from a company regardless of the long term impact. Is it really surprising that they are disliked? Just because they are just doing someone else's dirty work doesn't mean they should be absolved for their contribution.

MitchCurry

Red Lobster left Olo in 2023 after deciding to develop their own in-house online ordering infrastructure. PR was released today that not only has Red Lobster come back to Olo, they're doing so with a partnership that expands upon their original 2017 agreement. Press release: [https://investors.olo.com/news/news-details/2025/Red-Lobster-Returns-to-Olo-with-Expanded-Partnership-Launching-First-Party-Catering/default.aspx](https://investors.olo.com/news/news-details/2025/Red-Lobster-Returns-to-Olo-with-Expanded-Partnership-Launching-First-Party-Catering/default.aspx)

SPAC_Time

Off Topic, but is anyone else thinking about reading more of Nvidia's blog posts? Check Cyngn Inc, CYN stock today. Was $$4.10 - $4.20 Tuesday and Wednesday. Today, hit a high of $41.50, currently $22.30 and halted yet again after 97 million traded. Why? This PR from CYN ***today***: [Cyngn Highlights Next-Generation Robotics, Automation and AI Technologies at Automatica in Collaboration with NVIDIA](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cyngn-highlights-next-generation-robotics-automation-and-ai-technologies-at-automatica-in-collaboration-with-nvidia-302491644.html) The kicker? NVIDIA blog post was on ***Tuesday***. [NVIDIA and Partners Highlight Next-Generation Robotics, Automation and AI Technologies at Automatica](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/automatica-robotics-2025/) "**Cyngn**, a pioneer in autonomous mobile robotics, is integrating its DriveMod technology into Isaac Sim to enable large-scale, high fidelity virtual testing of advanced autonomous operation. Purpose-built for industrial applications, DriveMod is already deployed on vehicles such as the Motrec MT-160 Tugger and BYD Forklift, delivering sophisticated automation to material handling operations." That's twice in the past couple of months, this also happened with Navitas ( NVTS ).

No_Register_5841

> but that's missing the fact that the literal job of the executive team is to monetize the business (i.e. use any invested money to make more). It is the job of the company to deliver something of value in their mission. Money and growth comes from executing on the value delivered. That's it. Real, durable, sustainable growth doesn't come from "monetizing the business" and therefore ought not be the central purview of a competent executive. > The important piece is that consultants don't make the decisions for the executive team, they're really just acting like surveyors and presenting the relevant information to the executives to help with their strategic planning. This really depends. In some cases consultants are hired for cover to allow executives to do what they want to do and are directed (subtly) to create the justification for the action (the PR cover you are talking about). Other times executives have no fucking idea what they are doing and pay the kiddos to tell them what to do (no empty suit is going to go against the consultant recommendation because that would create direct liability). > As long as the current shareholders benefited from each move, long enough to leave and be replaced by other shareholders, then the long-term negative impacts on revenue operations were a fair tradeoff for meeting their equity/debt obligations. More brain rot. This is why the executive level are stocked full of dumb fucks. They hear this bullshit over and over and can't figure out how to touch grass.

Takkonbore

> So your point is that executives are so shit at their job that it could be done better by a few 20 something know-nothings with an MBA and a barely surface level understanding of the business? Typically, consultants are there tackle two specific things: * The [Agency problem](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/agencyproblem.asp); internal management will always try to paint a rosy picture of their work and their departments, but that means the executives have bad information most of the time. Consultants are sent to go fetch information from the frontline teams and piece together an *accurate* picture of the current state of the company on short notice. * Missing expertise; it could be a specialty in industry forecasting, depth of knowledge around a new software suite, really any skillset that's not currently used at the company. Consultants are basically borrowed employees to help fill that gap when it's too slow or not worth investing in permanent employees. The important piece is that *consultants don't make the decisions* for the executive team, they're really just acting like surveyors and presenting that key information to the executives to help with their planning process. MBB have also made *executive PR insurance* a key part of their business model, so they set themselves up as a lightning rod for complaints or any PR fallout the executive team might experience for making significant changes in their companies. Notice how we're here blaming McKinsey, and not the CEO/Board who made the series of bad decisions? That's the PR insurance at work. > I wish there was a way to quantify the money wasted with the "offshore to save a few dollars > everything fucking sucks > bring back onshore" cycle, or the massive hits to productivity and quality that follow. There is, we have organizational modeling and other toolsets that handle that quite well. However, modern corporations all face a fundamental tension between *investor motivation* for their equity/debt operations and *industry motivation* for their revenue operations. While the two sides of the corporation benefit from each other, they don't have the same goals or incentives and often pull in opposing directions. Most big blunders you hear about are because of that tension, and more often it's investor motivations that step in and interfere self-destructively in the revenue operations. If you ask what the industry motivation was for those bad decisions, the answer is most often "just greed" but that's missing the fact that the literal job of the executive team is to monetize the business (i.e. use any invested money to make more). As long as the *current shareholders* benefited from each move, long enough to leave and be replaced by *other shareholders*, then the long-term negative impacts on revenue operations were a fair tradeoff for meeting their equity/debt obligations. Having the company provide a good product/service, contribute to everyone's quality of living, and maintain a happy fanbase has never been part of the executive job description.

Zarktheshark1818

This is just typical Iranian bluster and Khamenei trying to save face. He's threatening against further aggression from the US. Even the attack on the Al-Udeid base he is trying to sell, Iran warned us and Qatar well in advance so there wouldn't be too much damage or lives lost to further inflame the situation, but he could save face and say they retaliated. This is just him trying to PR spin the situation, I wouldn't read too much into it (although Trump is a mad dog so who knows what the hell he'll think).

ericslayer67

Partnerships like this validate NVDA fullstack AI strategy Locking in industrial clients means more sticky revenue streams long term not just a PR headline.

NVDAismygod

Literally garbage of the ocean that somehow has great PR to make people eat them

broala

>be an eternal scapegoat/reputation fuse if anything bad happens. Except this will never happen... If this situation does arise, if the consultant's advice turns out to be toxic, then the consultant and consultee will just be in a perpetual smoke chamber, with the consultee insisting the consultant is to blame for giving bad advice, and the consultant insisting that the consultee didn't implement it properly, or something else. Consultants know that their business is dead in the water if word gets out that they give bad advice, so they need to constantly spin any negative outcome into some problem not related to anything they did. They might even need to bring on a PR consultant to help with that....

BigManDrew_BMD

Sounds like consulting firms are just there to take the hit for PR and to validated the per-made decisions already made by the company before hiring consulting, it's smart in a way in case something goes wrong as the company can just pass of blame and not take that big of a hit to their share price

PlaquePlague

Your country literally had to make a poo mascot and an entire PR campaign to get people to shit in the toilet instead of on the streets. 

woome

Well think of the reverse case, how easy is would it be to manipulate a stock price that way then? This is the kind of stuff that drowns out in the noise, unless they want to try to take it to a news outlet and have them report on it. So, then becomes how much is it worth their professional reputation to go through that, and even if it was entirely legitimate and important enough for investors to care, the CEO could probably just do some hand-waving PR magic.

wycia

Yeah they need better PR lol

AssociateLate1116

Mass tendies to be made, one of 2 conference calls they have a year is on Friday. Huge jumps pretty predictable if you look back on their chart. Also trading at all time low, extremely oversold, no debt, profitably company, market cap only $8 mil and they have a GMO certification last year that's worth at least $50 mil. Management is kind of ass and PR's suck so its a steady decline until there's volume and then it FLIES

Field_Sweeper

And if you think every single headline will cause any expected movement you'll be broke... Give it time. Not every even bad PR event is a disaster for a companies stock price lol. Especially something somewhat easily fixed via a firmware update lol.

Ctofaname

Everyone is sleeping on IBM as it quietly consolidates and builds up. It has very low retail interest and is primarily held by institutions. Once retail wakes up its going to melt up. IBM is far and above the leader in quantum and have a monopoly in mainframe that will never be toppled. Its looked at as an old legacy company rightfully so, but old and slow works and is more stable of an investment especially with quantum on the horizon. IBM does not push a ton of PR and is business to business which is why its primarily an, if you know you know.

heavyhitter5

It’s by design. Waymo has been at this for a long time, and they’re not about to blow their PR load (so to speak) to celebrate launch in a handful of cities with strict geofencing. They’re know what the true end goal is and will continue slowly improving until ready to become a true revenue stream for Google. And it’s not like they’re paying retail for the jaguars. It’s a partnership and Jaguar will sell many vehicles with this opportunity to get lots of butts in their seats. And on the other side of the coin, Waymo gets to offer a premium feeling service, further distancing themselves from the traditional rideshare experience.

Physical-Housing-447

We have a super power empire so stop taking every criticism of America as a person offense we are what we are. We took over the reigns of the European empires and changed from overt colonialism to subtle puppeteering and economic dominance that benefited us and the expense of the 3rd world. (Also if you know anything about the cold war the non aligned movement and the soviets forcing america to that by supporting anti-colonial movements you'd know america wasnt doing that for just kindness but for geopoliticaI PR) bet your the kinda of person that believes racism ended in America with the civil rights act in 1965 for you if its not overt its not real so if it's not overt colonialism it can't be colonialistic and if its not overt Jim crow then there's no systematic racism for the comparison.

Lyleadams

I was in Phoenix earlier this year and was shocked at how many Waymo cars were on the road. I had never even heard of Waymo and had no idea driverless taxis even existed. Their PR machine is lacking. I was also very surprised they were using Jaguars for self driving taxis. That seems like overkill in terms of upfront cost.

Izzy248

Everyone on that platform is literally dedicated to him, and even they know this post is just PR because they are barely reacting to it.

Ulysses1978ii

Political theatre and a general marketing / PR exercise.

Jaded_Aging_Raver

I think he is either a lot more intelligent than he lets on or has a soulless PR team that is very good at maintaining shock value. It's hard to believe someone as dumb and off putting as Trump could gain this much public control and boundless passion without some form of intelligence influencing his decisions. Everything he does or says is like something out of a TV show, and it drives engagement like crazy. He's either playing the main character or being used as one by people with years of successful media production experience.

Prize_Ostrich7605

There’s no evidence of an agreement. No independent confirmation from Israel, Iran, or any third party. No terms, no dates, no signatories. Just Trump claiming that two long-time enemies came to him "almost simultaneously" and begged for peace, off camera, undocumented, and timed perfectly with his election season narrative. This isn’t diplomacy. It’s PR.  It’s dangerous, because when someone with a history of lying about everything from crowd sizes to nuclear documents starts unilaterally declaring peace deals in all caps, it’s not meant to inform the public. It’s meant to shape headlines, sow confusion, and claim divine authority. Peace is a process which requires accountability, not just slogans. Anyone selling you peace without transparency is selling you a show, not a solution. 

Crazy_Donkies

I may be equally wrong. I bought 250 more shares and now have 2750. The initial person with the $1mm YOLO predicted the drop after the S4 was accepted. He went on to predict a rise until the shareholder vote and listing date as PEW, then a dip, then "hopefully" some sort of significant rise due to PR and greater awareness. My average cost is - bad.

JimFlo69

It was just a PR stunt. Iran has said they are willing to negotiate after punishing the US aggressor. They get to tell their people the US was hit back and backed down, the US knew it was coming and no one was hurt. It was oddly a move towards descalaton.

Brawmethius

100% is. But I have a feeling Novo knew this going into the partnership. Wonder if they ever were looking for an actual one or just wanted better PR cover and direct insight into their SC before going after HIMs and the illegal generic MFGs. Until 2026 there is no country that can legally manufacture generic sema. Novo knows this, novo knew they weren't supplying HIMS. Ergo novo new they weren't sourcing from legal sources prior.

lakimens

what in the... Hey bro, imma drop a missile on you, make sure to intercept it so we can both score PR with 0 damage to our military and country.

Sakrie

I don't have to show you my positions. But, I will just point out this cycle of PR bullshit was predictable. [You could be up >1,500%](https://i.imgur.com/kU3AgNn.png)

Historical-Egg3243

I admit I do not know where the war is going. But I don't see why Iran should trust us. We made a deal with them before and trump reneged on it. Then Israel sneak attacked them while they were trying to make another deal  Now trump is threatening to kill the ayatollah.  If I were in the ayatollahs spot, I would pretend to make a deal, then strike back through an intermediary that is hard to trace back to me. I would use the bad PR this is generating for trump to recruit and radicalize more Muslim terrorists. I'd fight in the shadows, not through conventional weaponry. 

YeezyThoughtMe

I got into some July calls but honestly HIMS needs to put out a PR letter asap and deny the allegations or show proof that they didn’t make fake products or just some positive news and we will go right back up.

am22fcw

Exactly. Would be surprised if Iranian officials gave US a heads up that the missiles were coming. Straight up PR stunt.

Historical-Egg3243

trump is gonna cut healthcare, the company has terrible PR, their earnings suck, they pulled guidance, should I go on?

dvdmovie1

I owned this and sold already. From the PR: "**The consummation of the tender offer is subject to customary closing conditions, including the tender of a number of shares of Blueprint common stock representing at least a majority of the outstanding shares of Blueprint common stock, the receipt of required regulatory approvals, and other customary conditions. If the tender offer is successfully completed, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sanofi will merge with and into Blueprint and all of the outstanding Blueprint shares that are not tendered in the tender offer will be converted into the right to receive the same $129.00 per share in cash and one CVR per share offered to Blueprint shareholders in the tender offer.** Sanofi plans to finance the transaction with a combination of cash on hand and proceeds from new debt. The tender offer is not subject to any financing condition. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of customary closing conditions, Sanofi currently expects to complete the acquisition in the third quarter of 2025. The acquisition will not have a significant impact on Sanofi’s financial guidance for 2025. It is immediately accretive to gross margin and accretive to business operating income and EPS after 2026." There have been some instances in the past where what is required to complete the deal is to get a great majority of the outstanding shares and then anything left trading is eventually illiquid. You don't want that. Thermo Fisher buying Patheon several years ago was an example of this. They got 95.3% of the Patheon shares and then said by x date that Patheon was delisting. "Following delisting from the NYSE, Patheon ordinary shares will not be listed or registered on another national securities exchange. **Delisting is likely to reduce significantly the liquidity and marketability of any Patheon ordinary shares that have not been tendered pursuant to the tender offer.**" If something you own is bought, then unless you think a better offer is likely it's sell it and on to the next investment idea.

SuitableInvestment2

Hey Ultimate, I've recently spent a lot of time trying to learn about valuation so I'm hoping to give some constructive criticism, and hopefully it helps. 90 minutes seems like a very short period of time, I would recommend look at the 10k, and the most recent 10q, as well as any investor presentations they may have put out recently on their investor relations page. There also seems to be a few points that are incorrect about M&A here, so when the offer was rejected it wasn't "Big Money" rejecting the offer, it was the board, who consulted with an "independent committee", think of the board like your congressmen, they are just elected representatives, and you can't just pass laws(Force a buyout), what you can do is start a proxy fight to get your own board member appointed, who will vote your way. The problem with that, is it's messy, bad PR, hostile, and a firm like Bain would almost certainly not want to do. Also I would look more into the financials, btw investments don't affect the earnings, investments aren't going to be on the income statement. Hopefully any of that was helpful, good luck in your journey, I would recommend going on VIC, Value Investors Club, they do really good write-ups, where you can just study how a good write-up looks like.

Candlelight_Fant4sia

The "PR crisis" is largely irrelevant and only temporary. AFAIK the bigger issues are the company is locked in some policies/products where they'll keep making significant losses for quite some time, and also the US admin is pretty hostile to the whole sector. Those are 2 issues that will negatively affect the company for the medium term. IMHO you should only buy in small amounts and only when the price dips well below $300, potentially $250 or less. In the long term I believe the business will do well, but we're potentially talking years, so it all depends on your investment strategy and time frame.

luv2block

This was a PR stunt. In a couple weeks none of these cars will be on the road. Musk will say the "beta" was a success and they are now tweaking a few things and will be launching thousands of taxis at some point in the "near" future.

Svenray

"Closing the Straight for Pride Month" - Iran Western Based PR.

AestheticNoAzteca

>or should we wait to see if the PR crisis goes deeper? I asked the fortune teller and said to buy We don't know the future lol For me it's a buy, and I'm waiting for my next paycheck to do it 😂

Independent-Day-9170

Up until now I'm guessing Iran hasn't wanted to give the US any reason to bomb Iran (they've carried out numerous attacks in Europe, mostly assassinations of expat iranians, but that's risk-free as Europe is harmless). I also suspect that this calculus still holds, even after Trump bombed some nuclear bunkers: the PR gain from killing civilians in the US just isn't worth the cost of getting full-scale bombed by the US.