A Wave of Earnings Restatements Slams a Hot Market

The Wall Street Journal2021-07-02

Accounting guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission has led to a big slowdown in SPACs. More than 540 companies have restated their financial accounts in the past three months, higher ...

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SPACs raised $3.9 billion in May and $3.2 billion in 2021 through June 24, the data show.\n“The SEC statement had the impact of immediately stopping the SPAC market—it shut everything down,” said David Larsen, a managing director at valuation firm Duff & Phelps LLC. “We’re still dealing with the aftermath.”\nDeals are still getting done, with a steady stream of SPACs taking companies public in recent weeks. The slowdown may have helped take some of the speculative froth out of the market, according to analysts. “It allowed people to take their breath in a superheated market,” Mr. Larsen said.\nMore than 540, or almost three-quarters, of active SPACs and companies taken public by SPACs have restated their financials to comply with the SEC rules. Of those, more than 200 have made a less serious type of restatement that doesn’t require alerting investors, according to an analysis by data provider Audit Analytics.\nA further 330 SPACs and SPAC targets have done the most serious type of correction—the kind for which a company has to alert investors and reissue its financial statements. That is more such restatements, in less than three months, than the annual total for all companies in every year since 2010, the analysis found.\nSeveral companies taken public by SPACs also have restated other more serious aspects of their financial statements. Electric-truck startupLordstown MotorsCorp.disclosed in June “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a going concern through the end of this year. The company’s two top leaders later resigned over inaccuracies in the way it recorded preorders for its truck. 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