Pros Love to Short SPACs. With This ETF, You Can Too March 16, 2021
Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) continue to rack up attention in the media. Short sellers are increasingly shorting SPACs themselves and the companies that emerge from deals with blank-check firms.
Investors may soon be able to tap into that trend with a new exchange traded fund courtesy of Tuttle Tactical Management.
“Tuttle is preparing to launch an ETF that bets against ‘de-SPAC’ stocks of companies that have merged with a SPAC like electric-truck manufacturer Nikola Corp. and baked-goods maker Hostess Brands Inc. and a separate fund that invests in the stocks,” reports the
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Matthew Tuttle is the chief executive and chief investment officer of Tuttle Tactical Management.
He manages the $147.2 million SPAC and New Issue ETF, which has returned 12.94% this year.
Tuttle shares his three-part SPAC picking strategy and three of his favorite blank-check companies.
Just like the newly filed Do It Again Corp., SPACs are doing it again breaking the record month after month.
According to Goldman Sachs, 90 Special Purpose Acquisition Companies raised $32 billion in IPO capital in February, the largest issuance month on record. Year-to-date, 204 blank-check companies have raised $65.4 billion compared to the $83.4 billion raised by the 248 SPACs last year, according to SPAC Research.
Experience Investment Corp (NASDAQ: EXPC).
The company’s helicopters fly people in and out of U.S. city centers. The four key targets for Blade are short-distance flights of 60 to 100 miles, airport flights between New York airports, transporting human organs in the northeast U.S. and international joint ventures.
The company had revenue of $33 million in 2019 with 10 scheduled flight routes. The company expects revenue to hit $402 million in 2024 with 28 expected flight routes.
In 2025, the company plans to launch its eVTOL electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Revenue for 2025 is expected to hit $601 million and begin ramping up with the additional flying product.
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