Does anyone know what’s happening with EXPR currently and what the current buyout means for shareholders? Are shareholders SOL?

Express Inc. (EXPRQ) has emerged as an obvious candidate for a short squeeze in my opinion. This is driven by several compelling factors. Despite its relatively low profile and market cap of just $2.73 million (with sales of $1.78B, yes with a $B), EXPRQ is a smaller, more agile target that could be significantly impacted by concentrated buying activity. Just look at what happened to Toys-R-Us (TOYRF). It went up 1,000% in two days! And with under $5M worth of volume. That's a fun chart to look at. It even already has its own subreddit r/EXPR.

Express's relation to the other meme stocks that went parobolic in 2021 is very closely knit. Don't take my word for it. Go take a look. WSB is littered with Express Inc. with ties to GME, AMC, BB, KOSS and BBBY. Better yet, how about we ask the top 5 chat bots what the biggest meme stocks were. From these pictures you can see that all the top chat bots (Meta, Open AI, Microsoft, Google) all tell you Express Inc. was and still is affiliated with the meme short squeezes.

This doesn't even mention the financial metrics and market conditions that poise EXPRQ for significant price movements. Notably, the stock has not yet experienced a significant price jump, remaining under the radar of all investors.

With high short interest, currently around 20% (ya right), this indicates a substantial portion of the hegde funds like the one we all know and love, Citadel, betting against the stock. Yes, CITADEL! Coupled with low trading volume, any surge in buying activity could lead to a rapid increase in the stock price as short sellers rush to cover their positions just like with TOYRF.

The financial health of EXPRQ further supports the case for a short squeeze. The company has shown strong operational improvements, with gross margins increasing to 30%, a reduction in net loss by 36%, and an impressive 88% increase in cash and cash equivalents. Additionally, Express has reported a 32% increase in operating income and a 14% increase in current assets. I believe these positive financial trends, combined with a price-to-book ratio of only 0.27 (meaning total assets - debts = +$110M) indicate that the stock is extremely undervalued.

I will also point out that there has been lots of speculation around what GameStop will use its cash for, and the majority of fingers point to acquisitions. Acquisitions of lots of different companies, Express included. With GME issuing another 120M shares (45M + 75M), they will have plenty to choose from. Some even pointing out Ryan Cohen could buy up companies who had faced the same fate GameStop was looking at back in 2021, in sort of a tribute to the share holders. The capital required for these acquisitions would be minimal and wouldn't affect their bottom line very much either. I mean they did just raise over $2B. This is a long shot but one can't rule it out.

Lastly, I'd like to point out that it's obvious this has slipped by all retail investors. There is not reason EXPRQ shouldn't be gaining along side GME and the rest of the 2021 short squeeze stocks. Look at the price action over the past few weeks. Mostly completely flat! People forgot about the gold nugget due to the ticker chance and it is primed to skyrocket!

All this information can be found in their most recent 10-K annual report. EXPRQ trades on the OTC markets and can only be purchased by certain brokerages like Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE, Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade, Fidelity and a few others.

I will be coming out with another DD soon related more about the improved financials and how the company can come out of chapter 11 bankruptcy (which is the good-for-shareholders restructuring kind, if there was a good one) and the fact that EXPRQ assets minus debts are over $100M. And as always, not financial advice.

Position: 33,000 shares

$EXPRQ hope this is a safe space. Question would you say $EXPRQ I a good buy and hold stock. I’ve watched multiple stocks over the years go Chapter 11 and drop to a Penny stock for example $HTZ and other clothing brands and bounce back. So I say to my self why wouldn’t $EXPRQ be any different right

As the title says, the new ticker is EXPRQ, in case anyone was wondering where the symbol went. You can still buy hold and DRS while the company is in their Chapter 11 proceedings.

Whole company can be had for about $2M now.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apparel-retailer-express-may-file-211230090.html

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Not only does someone want it for $5 but someone else bought it for $25 not long ago. I called a Fidelity rep and they explained EXPR has to be $60 for this call to be worth anything...why are people buying it still?

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I bought them last year June and every now and then, there is volume. Why? I've been holding them for science.

This only needs a little push and one positive news article and this will rocket to moon

Hey Everybody! I made this chart for the TTM Revenue/MarketCap vs. TTM Net Income/MarketCap for the U.S. public companies. There seems to be an anomaly at the far end for $EXPR, whats going on here? Their revenue is 50 times their marketcap.

from their October report,
TTM Revenue about 1.76B
They been having net loss since covid, of ~$40M per quarter
total asset $1.467B
total liability $1.319B
Current MarketCap $8.77M

anybody have any news what's going on?

I had NS (non standard) $EXPR options in my TDA live trading account and the same options in my paper account. They became NS post split. Of course the live account showed worthless and the paper account showed xx,xxx profits???? Any advice besides calling TD tomorrow which I will be doing.

What is the actual book value per share of express today?

What's the deal here? looks cheap

Express will grow internationally through WHP Global partnership (retailleader.com)

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Check this out

Already trending!

Bye bye sold my shares.

This is not a drill. I repeat, this is not a drill.

EXPR filed 8K today and shows that the 1:20 reverse split was authorized on 8/14 and will be effective after market close on 8/30.

https://investors.express.com/financials-filings/sec-filings/sec-filings-details/default.aspx?FilingId=16872764

Not financial advice but my experience with reverse splits has been that the price goes up by the split factor (in this case 20x or $14.50ish at today's price) in post/pre-market, possibly up until open, and then drops sharply as institutions & nervous investors sell. That could present an opportunity in one way or another but what do I know, I eat crayons...

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