secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     MARKETWISE, INC. (MKTW)
CIK:        0001805651
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-24-009544
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

MarketWise Q4 net income $1.9M; fraud leads to wind-down of Legacy Research unit
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- Q4 GAAP net income $1.9M vs $27.6M last year; revenue $112.2M vs $127.7M.
- Full-year revenue $448.2M, down from $512.4M; paid subscribers fell to 737k from 841k.
- Former employee Jon Mikula criminally charged for undisclosed payments; company winding down entire Legacy Research unit.
- Restructuring cut >100 FTEs, eliminated 40 products; annualized cost savings ~$18M; Q4 severance cost ~$18M.
- Total billings $382.4M vs $459.5M in 2022; renewal billings grew to $96.8M from $70.3M in 2019.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828024009544/0001628280-24-009544-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828024009544/mktw-20240307.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-009544

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