Friendly Bear Research is short B. Riley Financial, and says in a report that it believes B. Riley overstated its Q2 earnings by roughly $28M pre-tax due to an extremely inflated mark on an OTC holding, a publicly traded company that is “clearly impaired.” The firm’s analysis suggests that B. Riley’s accounting practices are consistently aggressive and that the company is at significant risk of regulatory intervention.
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