NEW YORK: As retail investors pump less money into blank-check companies, returns on those stocks are badly underperforming versus the S&P 500.
Reuters found that over 100 special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, that announced mergers this year on average have gained under 2% from the price they traded at when they first listed on the stock exchange.
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