RE:RE:Smith Financial To Acquire Home Capital Group For $44 Per ShCongrats. I, too, was a shareholder in May 2017 when that failed-hedge-fund-manager-turned-pig farmer shorted the stock down to under $6. I averaged down back then and got out with a decent profit, then got back in and out later. Just a lesson to anybody that listens to the mainstream media: they are very capable of manipulating a stock price. Everybody jumped on the shorter's bandwagon except Amber Kanwar back then. There never was a threat of HCG going bankrupt before the pig farmer came along.