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ZOOM还是ZM?投资者闹乌龙,致ZOOM股票停牌

ZOOM还是ZM?投资者闹乌龙,致ZOOM股票停牌

Jen wiczner 2020-03-28
有些投资者居然将Zoom Video和ZOOM搞混了。

2019年4月18日,Zoom Video Communications在纳斯达克上市。图片来源:Kena Betancur-Getty Images.
 
名称意味着什么?事实证明,若涉及到股票市场,或者更确切地说涉及到股票行情,它意味着很多很多。

美国证券交易委员会(SEC)周四停止了Zoom Technologies(股票代码:ZOOM)的股票交易,理由是“担心投资者”在新冠疫情期间“将这家公司与在纳斯达克上市的另一家名称相似的公司混为一谈”。那家公司就是Zoom Video Communications(股票代码:ZM)。近来,为了减缓新冠病毒的传播,大批员工开始在家办公,这家提供远程会议服务的公司的股价随之飙升。

自上个月大盘见顶以来,Zoom Video的股价已上涨了50%,而同期标普500指数的跌幅则超过20%。

同一期间,一只柜台交易的低价股Zoom Technologies在被SEC停牌前涨幅超过了240%。截至上周末达到高点时,ZOOM的股价在一个月的时间内涨了近7倍,从每股约3美元升至20多美元。然而据SEC称,Zoom Technologies自2015年以来从未“公开披露”包括财务报告或“运营情况(如果的确在运营的话)”在内的任何信息。该公司最近的报告显示,其总部设在北京。

这已经不是投资者第一次因混淆股票代码、将某家公司误认为另一个更知名的公司而买错股票了,尤其若遇到首次公开募股等容易引发股市动荡的情况,此类事件更易发生。2017年,备受期待的Snap Inc.(社交媒体应用Snapchat的制造商)上市前夕,Snap Interactive的股票就遭到了投资者的哄抬。(Snapchat的制造商上市一年后,Snap Interactive最终更名为PeerStream。)

2015年,一家原本名为Isis Pharmaceuticals的生物科技公司更名为Ionis Pharmaceuticals,同时将股票代码由ISIS改为IONS,原因是担心人们将其与伊斯兰国恐怖组织联想到一起,从而影响公司的股价。

2013年Twitter宣布公开募股时,当时处于破产状态的零售商Tweeter Home Entertainment的股价在几天内飙升2200%,随后被停牌。

其他张冠李戴的例子还有:Nest Labs和Nestor(后者的股票代码为NEST,其股价于2014年Google收购Nest Labs期间大涨);Facebook和Physicians Formula Holdings(后者在被收购前的股票代码是FACE);以及Monster Beverage Corp.和网上招聘公司Monster Worldwide,据说2011年时,有名经纪人弄混了这两家公司,在市场监管人员发现之前错买了价值1.44亿美元的股票。

有鉴于此,投资者在买股票时或许应在注意事项里加上一条:仔细检查股票代码。(财富中文网)

译者:胡萌琦

名称意味着什么?事实证明,若涉及到股票市场,或者更确切地说涉及到股票行情,它意味着很多很多。

美国证券交易委员会(SEC)周四停止了Zoom Technologies(股票代码:ZOOM)的股票交易,理由是“担心投资者”在新冠疫情期间“将这家公司与在纳斯达克上市的另一家名称相似的公司混为一谈”。那家公司就是Zoom Video Communications(股票代码:ZM)。近来,为了减缓新冠病毒的传播,大批员工开始在家办公,这家提供远程会议服务的公司的股价随之飙升。

自上个月大盘见顶以来,Zoom Video的股价已上涨了50%,而同期标普500指数的跌幅则超过20%。

同一期间,一只柜台交易的低价股Zoom Technologies在被SEC停牌前涨幅超过了240%。截至上周末达到高点时,ZOOM的股价在一个月的时间内涨了近7倍,从每股约3美元升至20多美元。然而据SEC称,Zoom Technologies自2015年以来从未“公开披露”包括财务报告或“运营情况(如果的确在运营的话)”在内的任何信息。该公司最近的报告显示,其总部设在北京。

这已经不是投资者第一次因混淆股票代码、将某家公司误认为另一个更知名的公司而买错股票了,尤其若遇到首次公开募股等容易引发股市动荡的情况,此类事件更易发生。2017年,备受期待的Snap Inc.(社交媒体应用Snapchat的制造商)上市前夕,Snap Interactive的股票就遭到了投资者的哄抬。(Snapchat的制造商上市一年后,Snap Interactive最终更名为PeerStream。)

2015年,一家原本名为Isis Pharmaceuticals的生物科技公司更名为Ionis Pharmaceuticals,同时将股票代码由ISIS改为IONS,原因是担心人们将其与伊斯兰国恐怖组织联想到一起,从而影响公司的股价。

2013年Twitter宣布公开募股时,当时处于破产状态的零售商Tweeter Home Entertainment的股价在几天内飙升2200%,随后被停牌。

其他张冠李戴的例子还有:Nest Labs和Nestor(后者的股票代码为NEST,其股价于2014年Google收购Nest Labs期间大涨);Facebook和Physicians Formula Holdings(后者在被收购前的股票代码是FACE);以及Monster Beverage Corp.和网上招聘公司Monster Worldwide,据说2011年时,有名经纪人弄混了这两家公司,在市场监管人员发现之前错买了价值1.44亿美元的股票。

有鉴于此,投资者在买股票时或许应在注意事项里加上一条:仔细检查股票代码。(财富中文网)

译者:胡萌琦

What’s in a name? A lot, it turns out, when it comes to the stock market—or rather, a stock ticker.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday halted trading in the shares of Zoom Technologies (ticker symbol: ZOOM), citing “concerns about investors confusing this issuer with a similarly named Nasdaq-listed issuer” during the coronavirus pandemic. That other issuer is Zoom Video Communications (ticker symbol: ZM), whose stock price has, well, zoomed in recent days as droves of workers, confined to their homes to reduce the spread of COVID-19, have turned to its remote meeting services.

Zoom Video’s stock has surged 50% since the broader market’s peak last month, a period in which the S&P 500 has fallen more than 20%.

Meanwhile, Zoom Technologies, a so-called penny stock traded over the counter, had risen more than 240% over the same time frame before the SEC suspended it. At its high at the end of last week, the “ZOOM” stock had increased nearly sevenfold—from around $3 a share to more than $20—in the span of a month. That’s in spite of the fact that Zoom Technologies, according to the SEC, has not made “any public disclosure” whatsoever—including reporting on its finances or “its operations, if any”—since 2015. The company most recently reported that it was headquartered in Beijing.

It’s not the first time investors have bought the wrong stock after mixing up its ticker symbol with that of a more high-profile company, particularly during volatile market events, such as initial public offerings. In 2017, during the run-up to the highly anticipated IPO of Snap Inc. (maker of social media app Snapchat), investors bid up shares of Snap Interactive—before Snap Inc. even went public. (Snap Interactive ultimately changed its name to PeerStream a year after the Snapchat maker’s IPO.)

And in 2015, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company originally named Isis Pharmaceuticals, changed its name, along with its ticker symbol, from “ISIS” to “IONS,” over concern that association with the Islamic State terrorist group was hurting its stock price.

When Twitter announced it would go public in 2013, the stock of Tweeter Home Entertainment, a retailer which was then in bankruptcy, soared as much as 2,200% over the following days before being halted.

Other cases of mistaken stock identity include Nest Labs and Nestor (whose stock, with ticker symbol “NEST,” shot up when Google acquired Nest Labs in 2014); Facebook and Physicians Formula Holdings (which traded under the ticker “FACE” before it was acquired); and Monster Beverage Corp. and Monster Worldwide, an online job-posting company which a broker reportedlyconfused for the other in 2011, placing an erroneous order for $144 million worth of its shares before market officials caught the mix-up.

When buying stocks, investors may want to add one more item to their due diligence list: double-check the ticker symbol.

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