Fairfax gets a short selling hit piece

Muddy Waters put out an interesting hit piece on Fairfax, accusing the corporation of using accounting tricks to overstate its true book value by about USD$4.5 billion. FFH’s stated equity in September 2023 was USD$21.6 billion. This accused mark-down isn’t gigantic, but considering that Fairfax is trading at a healthy valuation over book (about 1.5x … Continue reading Fairfax gets a short selling hit piece