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What is a Special Situation? A special situation is a scenario where buyers for a security increase not because of the the company’s fundamentals, but due to perceived opportunity from other circumstances. These can include events such as a forthcoming spinoff, merger, tender offer, a competitor’s impending bankruptcy, litigation, or other outside the norm instance.

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Finance allah shmoop what is a special situation Lebron michael

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Either one tiger at least back in the day when

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he had hair All special situations Not normal Well investing

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has the same anomalies crazy events that aren't predictable in

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which offer investors the allure of outsized gains if they're

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smart and lucky and analyzing and taking advantage of the

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situation Special situations arise when business events hit a company

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which carry enormous weight in the press but really don't

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matter to the business itself like you have a headline

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of someone finding a fly in their bottle of catch

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up The notion is who were the so tons of

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bloggers and journalists and tweeters all discuss it Show pictures

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of it Talk about the horror the horror And then

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there's a vaguely hinted that investigation that a congressman in

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a city you've never heard of mumbles to get the

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press to notice her And for about twelve hours ketchup

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sales of that brand and maybe others dropped by five

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percent And that's about it The ketchup company that was

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supposed to have a billion dollars in sales this year

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will now have only nine hundred ninety nine million nine

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hundred eighty two thousand in sales this year Yeah the

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flight cost them eighteen grand but their stock Whoa look

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what happened It dropped from eighty two dollars a shared

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a sixty two dollars a share Almost overnight the crisis

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in the press crushed popular sentiment for a few days

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and investors in the heat of things like when the

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stock was plummeting Would have to figure out if this

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fly in the ointment was a one in a million

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event or something systemic where we'd find a new fly

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in the catch up every other week Or was it

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put there by an angry u S Citizen who simply

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had something against baseball ketchup apple pie and chevrolet like

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Was it sabotage All right well the time to invest

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would have been when this situation was special and everyone

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was panicking And you kept your head about you while

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others were losing theirs Yeah being a smart investor And

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you didn't pay attention to any of the noise or

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uh

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