On October 19, 2023, Culper Research released a report on XPEL. In this report, Culper stated that it was shorting XPEL stock because it believed “the Company has grossly understated its reliance on Tesla”, and because it believed “the Company is concealing a massive undisclosed risk from its primary supplier which threatens to upend the Company’s entire reason for being.”
On this news, XPEL stock declined by $10.57 per share, or 17.2% on October 19, 2023.