Why TransMedics Group Stock Is Tanking Today

Shares of TransMedics Group (TMDX -11.36%) were tanking 14.3% lower as of 10:46 a.m. ET on Friday. The big sell-off came after activist short seller Scorpion Capital released a scathing report about TransMedics.Scorpion stated in its report, "TransMedics is the most extreme and grotesque healthcare fraud we have encountered, not only for its scale, but because it is predicated on the exploitation of the most vulnerable patients -- the terminally ill, desperate for an organ." The short seller alleged that Tr ...