Plaintiff's law firm issued a press release on March 29, 2019 announcing the filing of the lawsuit. The Complaint alleges that during the Class Period, Defendants were engaged in an undisclosed pump and dump scheme that manipulated and artificially inflated the price of First Choice common stock, and failed to disclose their involvement, rendering certain of their public statements materially misleading.

According to the Complaint, Nutanix "provides a leading enterprise cloud platform that powers many of the world's business applications and end user services by providing software solutions that digitize traditional silos of enterprise computing."

According to the Complaint, American Renal purports to operate as a dialysis services provider in the United States.

According to the Complaint, Healthcare Services Group, Inc. engages in the management, administrative, and operating services to the housekeeping, laundry, linen, facility maintenance, and dietary service departments to nursing homes, retirement complexes, rehabilitation centers, and hospitals in the United States.

According to the Complaint, United Microelectronics Corporation ("UMC" or the "Company") provides semiconductor wafer foundry solutions.

According to the Complaint, Corcept is a pharmaceutical company that purports to develop medications to treat
severe metabolic, oncologic, and psychiatric disorders by modulating the effect of cortisol. Korlym is the Company's drug that has been approved by the FDA to treat hyperglycemia secondary to hypercortisolism in adult patients with endogenous Cushing's syndrome.

According to the Complaint, Stamps.com is a provider of Internet-based mailing and shipping solutions in the United States. Under the Stamps.com and Endicia brands, Stamps.com customers use USPS solutions to mail and ship a variety of mail pieces and packages through the USPS and customers using Stamps.com solutions receive discounted postage rates compared to USPS.com and USPS retail locations on certain mail pieces.

According to the Complaint, Diplomat purports to operate as an independent specialty pharmacy in the United States.

According to the Complaint, Conduent was formed effective December 31, 2016 from a collection of businesses within the Xerox Corporation. Conduent was spun-off to Xerox shareholders in a ratio of one Conduent share for every five Xerox shares owned. Conduent's primary business is to run operations for clients, such as toll-booth collections.

According to the law firm press release, the complaint alleges that Spectrum misrepresented and failed to disclose that: (i) Spectrum had been self-inflicting the operational issues at its Ohio and Kansas facilities; (ii) these operational issues were, in fact, recurring in nature; (iii) these operational issues would continuously impact production, shipping levels and sales; and (iv) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's financial statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Plaintiff's law firm issued a press release on January 17, 2019, announcing the lawsuit. According to the press release, on December 18, 2015, Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. ("Qihoo 360" or the "Company"), purported to be the leading internet company in the People's Republic of China, announced that it had entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which it would be acquired by a consortium of investors in an "all-cash transaction valued at approximately $9.3 billion, including the redemption of approximately $1.6 billion of debt" (the "Merger"). Pursuant to the terms of the merger agreement, the Company's shares and ADS would cease to exist in exchange for the right to receive a cash amount without interest.

According to the Complaint, Vanda, a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and commercialization of products for the treatment of central nervous system disorders.

According to the Complaint, the Kraft Heinz Company ("Kraft" or the "Company") manufactures and markets food and beverage products in the United States, Canada, Europe, and internationally.

According to the Complaint, Health Insurance Innovations, Inc. ("HIIQ" or the "Company") purports to distribute individual and family health insurance plans, including short-term medical insurance plans, and guaranteed-issue and underwritten health benefit insurance plans. Health Plan Intermediaries Holdings, LLC ("HPIH") is one of the
Company's subsidiaries.

According to the Complaint, Avon is a global manufacturer and marketer of beauty and related products. Avon's reportable segments are based on geographic operations in four regions: Europe, Middle East & Africa; South Latin America; North Latin America; and Asia Pacific. During 2016, Avon had sales operations in 57 countries and territories. Brazil is Avon's largest market, measured by revenue and number of sales representatives. In 2016, Brazil revenue was $1.2 billion, approximately 21% of Avon's total revenues. No other country accounts for more than 10% of Avon's total revenues.

According to the Complaint, Bristow is an industrial aviation services provider with major transportation operations in the North Sea, Nigeria and the Gulf of Mexico, and in most other major offshore energy producing regions of the world.

According to the Complaint, Uxin is a used car e-commerce platform in China. The Company has two segments: Uxin Auction (or 2B business) sells used cars to dealers, and Uxin Used Car (or 2C business) sells used cars to consumers.

According to the Complaint, Wirecard, a technology company, purports to provide outsourcing and white label solutions for electronic payment transactions worldwide.

Plaintiff's law firm issued a press release on February 1, 2019, announcing the filing of the lawsuit. According to the press release, Astec designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and finances equipment and components, including aggregate crushers, pavers, asphalt plants, wood pellet plants, and related components. The Company comprises three segments: the Infrastructure Group; the Aggregate and Mining Group; and the Energy Group.

According to the Complaint, Revolution Lighting purports to design and manufacture light-emitting diode ("LED") lighting solutions for industrial, commercial, and government markets.