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CGC Canopy Growth, Corp. Post Restatement Transition
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Canopy Growth's Auditor Departs After Adverse Controls Opinion and Restatement

Market cap : at edition (Aug 7, 2026) $394M

PKF O'Connor Davies resigned as Canopy Growth's independent auditor on August 7, 2026, less than ten months after being ratified by shareholders, citing strategic changes regarding its services to the cannabis sector. The departure followed PKF's June 15, 2026 audit report, which contained an adverse opinion on Canopy Growth's internal controls over financial reporting, identifying a material weakness in the review of equity-linked instrument classification. The same filing re-discloses a May 2026 non-reliance determination covering audited financials for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 and eight quarterly periods, stemming from share-settled warrants that were incorrectly classified as equity. MNP LLP, a Canadian firm with no prior relationship with the company, was engaged as replacement on the same day.

FGBI First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. Distressed

FDIC Consent Order Finds First Guaranty Bank Capital Short

Market cap : at edition (Aug 7, 2026) $158M

First Guaranty Bank entered into a formal FDIC and Louisiana Office of Financial Institutions Consent Order effective August 7, 2026, requiring the bank to maintain a Tier 1 leverage ratio of at least 9% and a total risk-based capital ratio of at least 14%. The bank's Tier 1 leverage ratio stood at only 7.09% as of June 30, 2026 — already below the newly mandated floor — and a capital plan has been submitted to regulators. Under the order, the bank cannot pay any dividend to its parent holding company without prior written FDIC and OFI consent, a restriction with direct implications for First Guaranty Bancshares shareholders as management plots a path back to the required capital level.

POST POST Holdings, Inc. Management Transition

Post Holdings Discloses Pay for Vitale Successor, New CEO

Market cap : at edition (Aug 7, 2026) $4.1B

Post Holdings filed the compensation terms for its October 1 leadership transition: Robert Vitale, moving to Executive Chairman, will earn a $1,287,500 base salary and a 50% bonus target, while incoming CEO Nicolas Catoggio will receive a $900,000 base with a 115% bonus target. Catoggio's total target pay is substantially higher, driven by a $2.5 million promotion equity grant on top of $6.8 million in regular RSU and PRSU awards. The offer letters were both signed August 5, 2026, roughly three months after the Board first announced the succession on May 5.

DJT Trump Media & Technology Group, Corp. Strategic Reversal

Trump Media Terminates Crypto.com SPAC Deal, Downgrades Prediction Market Partnership

Market cap : at edition (Aug 7, 2026) $2.7B

Trump Media terminated its Business Combination Agreement with Yorkville Acquisition Corp. and Crypto.com on August 7, 2026, scrapping a deal announced nearly a year ago to create a CRO digital asset treasury company called Trump Media Group CRO Strategy, Inc. On the same day, the companies replaced a previously announced embedded prediction market integration on Truth Social — billed at launch as making Truth Social "the world's first social media platform" to offer prediction markets — with a marketing referral agreement. Both disclosures arrive three days before the company's inaugural earnings conference call on August 10, 2026. Q1 2026 revenue was $0.9 million.

ORBS Eightco Holdings, Inc. Listing Compliance

Eightco Faces Nasdaq Delisting Clock Despite $378M in Reported Holdings

Market cap : at edition (Aug 7, 2026) $259M

Nasdaq notified Eightco Holdings (ORBS) on August 5, 2026, that its stock had closed below $1.00 for 30 consecutive business days — triggering a compliance deadline of February 1, 2027. The notice lands nearly a year after investors bought shares at $1.46 in a $270 million private placement, and alongside a live at-the-market facility permitting the sale of up to $2.7 billion in common stock. The company reported treasury holdings of approximately $378 million as of August 5, a figure that exceeds its roughly $259 million market capitalization but includes illiquid private-company interests and a volatile token whose price has dropped sharply since June.

DV Doubleverify Holdings, Inc. Acquisition Pending

Nielsen Agrees to Buy DoubleVerify for $13.60 a Share

Market cap : at edition (Aug 7, 2026) $1.8B

Nielsen will acquire DoubleVerify for $13.60 per share in an all-cash deal implying an enterprise value of approximately $2.15 billion, a 30% premium to the stock's 60-trading-day volume weighted average price as of August 5, 2026. The agreement was announced simultaneously with Q2 2026 results showing revenue grew just 3% year-over-year — a sharp deceleration from 10-11% in the prior two quarters — and Q2 revenue of $193.8 million came in below the guided range of $199 to $205 million. All previously issued financial guidance was withdrawn and future earnings calls suspended for the duration of the transaction's pendency. Providence Equity Partners, which owns approximately 11.8% of DoubleVerify's shares, agreed to vote in favor of the deal.

MGPI MGP Ingredients, Inc. Credit Pressure

MGP Amends Credit Pacts to Shield $20M in Receivable Losses From Covenants

Market cap : at edition (Aug 7, 2026) $371M

MGP Ingredients amended its credit agreement with Wells Fargo and its note purchase agreement with PGIM on August 6, 2026, redefining Consolidated EBITDA to allow up to $20 million in losses on receivables from unnamed customers to be excluded from financial covenant calculations through December 31, 2027. The move comes one week after Q2 2026 earnings disclosed a $2.1 million provision for credit loss tied to a customer bankruptcy — roughly one-tenth of the add-back ceiling now in place. Net debt leverage has risen to 3.5x from 1.8x a year ago as the company digested the Penelope Bourbon earnout and absorbed a deepening brown-goods sales collapse, though management characterized the amendments as precautionary and said the full banking group participated.