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After Jumia's IPO, some people have rushed to claim Jumia as African. However, others have argued that Jumia's non-African listing, ownership and, legal domicile and bulk of senior decision makers render it a non-african business operating in Africa. And now, THIS: https://seekingalpha.com...hares-tumble-13-percent
AND access to the Citron report: https://citronresearch.c...-equal-jumia-is-a-fraud/
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Rank: Elder Joined: 4/22/2010 Posts: 11,522 Location: Nairobi
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[quote=passiveinvestor]After Jumia's IPO, some people have rushed to claim Jumia as African. However, others have argued that Jumia's non-African listing, ownership and, legal domicile and bulk of senior decision makers render it a non-african business operating in Africa. And now, THIS: https://seekingalpha.com...hares-tumble-13-percent
AND access to the Citron report: https://citronresearch.c...equal-jumia-is-a-fraud/[/quote] Was just reading that same article this morning... Very interesting..."In 18 years of publishing Citron has never seen such an obvious fraud as Jumia," possunt quia posse videntur
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Rank: Member Joined: 12/8/2006 Posts: 104
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maka wrote:[quote=passiveinvestor]After Jumia's IPO, some people have rushed to claim Jumia as African. However, others have argued that Jumia's non-African listing, ownership and, legal domicile and bulk of senior decision makers render it a non-african business operating in Africa. And now, THIS: https://seekingalpha.com...hares-tumble-13-percent
AND access to the Citron report: https://citronresearch.c...equal-jumia-is-a-fraud/[/quote] Was just reading that same article this morning... Very interesting..."In 18 years of publishing Citron has never seen such an obvious fraud as Jumia," Naija, oh! Look at the section on Jforce Consultants providing sales services using their ID's on behalf of other sellers. Kenya, ah! Majority of EUR720M paid in cash after delivery so NO commissions paid to Jumia! I am abit miffed though about the generalization of Africa so terrible a market that Amazon and Naspers avoided / exited it. First not true. Naspers still operates in Africa and Amazon is making gradual acquisitions, notably Souq.com covering Middle East and some North African countries. I suspect this is the track / argument Jumia will take in their rebuttal conference call next week. But don't know how anyone took their ADR filing seriously, even their financials were in 2 different currencies for the past 2 comparable years. Totally sloppy filing!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 4/22/2010 Posts: 11,522 Location: Nairobi
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passiveinvestor wrote:maka wrote:[quote=passiveinvestor]After Jumia's IPO, some people have rushed to claim Jumia as African. However, others have argued that Jumia's non-African listing, ownership and, legal domicile and bulk of senior decision makers render it a non-african business operating in Africa. And now, THIS: https://seekingalpha.com...hares-tumble-13-percent
AND access to the Citron report: https://citronresearch.c...equal-jumia-is-a-fraud/[/quote] Was just reading that same article this morning... Very interesting..."In 18 years of publishing Citron has never seen such an obvious fraud as Jumia," Naija, oh! Look at the section on Jforce Consultants providing sales services using their ID's on behalf of other sellers. Kenya, ah! Majority of EUR720M paid in cash after delivery so NO commissions paid to Jumia! I am abit miffed though about the generalization of Africa so terrible a market that Amazon and Naspers avoided / exited it. First not true. Naspers still operates in Africa and Amazon is making gradual acquisitions, notably Souq.com covering Middle East and some North African countries. I suspect this is the track / argument Jumia will take in their rebuttal conference call next week. But don't know how anyone took their ADR filing seriously, even their financials were in 2 different currencies for the past 2 comparable years. Totally sloppy filing! possunt quia posse videntur
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/19/2015 Posts: 2,871 Location: hapo
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When you know you know. Jumia's game plan was there for all to see. Run loses for years then go the IPO route. After all suckers will call it the "Amazon" of Africa, and they did. Rocket Internet investing your business is the beginning of the end. But don't believe me. Last time I decided to get their weekly mobile deals. Or so they said. Only to realise that they had hiked the price of the phone and then discounted it to it's normal price. Thieves are not good people. Tumeelewana?
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/22/2015 Posts: 682
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Looks to me like an activist investor looking for a correction.
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Rank: Member Joined: 12/8/2006 Posts: 104
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alma1 wrote:When you know you know. Jumia's game plan was there for all to see. Run loses for years then go the IPO route. After all suckers will call it the "Amazon" of Africa, and they did. Rocket Internet investing your business is the beginning of the end. But don't believe me. Last time I decided to get their weekly mobile deals. Or so they said. Only to realise that they had hiked the price of the phone and then discounted it to it's normal price. ....and the slide continues. $19 now! https://www.google.com/s...LiXMGzFPKZlwSV1LDoBA2:0
Shameful call by management not to respond to Citron. https://finance.yahoo.co...uire-p-c-230000510.html
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Rank: Chief Joined: 1/3/2007 Posts: 18,346 Location: Nairobi
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Mike Ock wrote:Looks to me like an activist investor looking for a correction. Andrew Left of Citron isn't an activist but a short-seller. Activists usually want to see change and may hold their shares for long(er) periods. They want the stock to rise in price. Short Sellers want the price to fall. As @SuraMbaya said above, Citron would have taken a short position and now want to drive the price down. Then they will close out their positions and move to the next firm. Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett
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Rank: Member Joined: 12/8/2006 Posts: 104
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VituVingiSana wrote:Mike Ock wrote:Looks to me like an activist investor looking for a correction. Andrew Left of Citron isn't an activist but a short-seller. Activists usually want to see change and may hold their shares for long(er) periods. They want the stock to rise in price. Short Sellers want the price to fall. As @SuraMbaya said above, Citron would have taken a short position and now want to drive the price down. Then they will close out their positions and move to the next firm. Now up 14%! Driven by this below (where they state that Jumia is based in Germany?) https://www.uspostnews.c...s-ag-jmia-fundamentals/
Or this link (which leads nowhere but has the blazing headline about new research)? https://www.benzinga.com...36-tgt-based-on-expecta
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/18/2008 Posts: 3,434 Location: Kerugoya
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Jumia sends home staff as losses riseDATED: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2019 22:00 Quote:E-commerce firm Jumia Kenya has sent home about six percent of its local employees, coming days after its parent company announced the closure of its operations in three countries.
Berlin-based Jumia Technologies recently shut down operations in Cameroon, Tanzania and Rwanda.
“After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to undergo some headcount reductions across our business verticals and geographies,” Jumia’s local office said in a statement.
“While decisions like these are always difficult, we need to put our focus and resources where they can bring the best value and help Jumia thrive. We are supporting all impacted employees during this period of transition.”
The company did not specify the number of affected employees. Kenya is its largest market in East Africa where it had 686 employees as of December 2018. SOURCE: https://www.businessdail...381132-peyv7s/index.html
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