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Spirit Airlines Shares Plummet Following A Report Suggesting That The Company Is Exploring The Potential Of Filing For Bankruptcy
Benzinga
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10/4/2024
Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) experienced a significant drop of over 40% in pre-market trading on Friday. This decline follows reports of the airline engaging in bankruptcy talks with bondholders.
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We got headlines yesterday. It just came after the close that the Spirit Airlines,
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considering bankruptcy filing coming from the Wall Street Journal, received a sell rating from
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TD Cohen yesterday morning before that. Either way, the stock was already trading down during
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the day. Then after hours, you get the news that they're filing for bankruptcy
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or considering filing for bankruptcy. Sorry, I don't want to-
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Not official yet.
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I don't want to be the one that people come back and say,
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you said it wrong. Considering filing for bankruptcy. I'm not sure. Obviously,
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the market reaction is telling you all you need to know. Down 34% this morning, 75 cents.
00:40
It looks like Save is looking for a lifeline.
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Yeah. The DOJ didn't throw them a lifeline. They threw them a death sentence. We knew the merger
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between JetBlue and Save was a merger more out of necessity than trying to kill competition.
00:58
But the DOJ, with their just killing all deals, now this blood, if Spirit goes down,
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this blood is on the DOJ's hands because they could have merged with JetBlue, cut some costs,
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save the airline. No, no, you can't merge. It's anti-competitive.
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Well, you know what's anti-competitive is actually allowing companies to go bankrupt.
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And this is on the DOJ 100%. We talked about this when they blocked the merger. I said,
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when they blocked the merger, that this is going to be tough for Spirit Air to survive.
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So here it is, what, eight months, 10 months later, and looking like they're teetering on
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bankruptcy now. Thank the DOJ for this. Thank the DOJ that you're going to have one less airline.
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You know who this is good for? All the other airlines because there's now less competition.
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Thank you, DOJ, LUV, trading higher. AAL, trading higher. Delta, trading higher. JetBlue
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themselves, trading up 4%. They were the ones that were going to acquire the merger. So,
02:04
I mean, what obviously the DOJ was trying to do is keep one more airline there for more
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competition. And the exact opposite has occurred. So this blood on the DOJ hands,
02:16
they're just the deal killers, man. They kill them all. This administration, this DOJ that
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they've got in there right now is the toughest one I've ever seen. They don't like stuff going
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through. I mean, the iRobot deal was ridiculous too. That's probably going to be the next one,
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you know, that they've killed off. So no, it's a rant, but I'm just, you know,
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writing was on the wall here. I don't know what they were thinking.
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It's a rumor, right? Nothing. I mean, it's in print, the streets reacting to it. At this point,
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I mean, since JetBlue already threw them a lifeline, I mean, I don't know what the possibilities are
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here. Yeah. Lifeline blocked, let them sink. That's what the DOJ said. Okay. You know,
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if you think this is a zero, which I have no way of telling, well, you can make a buck 49
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shorting it here. But if any kind of positive news comes out of this, then you're at risk.
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If you want to talk risk reward, you think there's a buck 49 on the board here. Well,
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if you want to risk up, you know, if you want to risk a buck 50 or two bucks, but it's just
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not something that's in my repertoire that, you know, to try and catch that extra buck 49.
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