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Our Coverage: SANT XTRA:SANT

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SANT - Response to Management

January 25, 2021 – On December 28, 2021, S&T issued a “detailed response1” to our report on the company. The response leaves numerous questions wide open and pathetically deflects several key concerns outlined by Viceroy. Viceroy welcomes the announcement of an independent forensic investigation by Deloitte and S&T’s commitment to publish the findings. We encourage stakeholders to move for the publication of the report in full instead of an abridged format to avoid any omission of findings. We reiterate our belief that the company is a roll-up of low-quality, labor intensive “IoT” assets, often acquired under fire-sale circumstances.

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SANT-a-Flaws – The Naughty List

DECEMBER 15, 2021 – Viceroy Research is short S&T AG (XTRA:SANT): a roll-up of low-quality, labor intensive “IoT” assets, often acquired under fire-sale circumstances. Analysis of individual subsidiary performance shows flatlining and negative growth due to frauds & federal raids, insolvency, security breaches, and general operational decline. S&T also appears to hide several subsidiaries in an off-balance sheet structure to conceal corporate fraud. Management have hidden these risks from shareholders and engaged in several undisclosed related-party transactions. S&T buys low-quality revenues and earnings at fire-sale prices to artificially “boost” value. Most tech acquisitions are made at 0.5x revenues, and complements S&T’s market trading at 1x revenue, generating false “value”. S&T’s business practices are a red flag, and the company is exposed to huge consequences of criminal indictments internationally. We believe S&T shares are worth substantially less on preliminary assessment of its ground level businesses. It would be absurd to provide a full valuation of SANT based on the vast off-balance sheet structure of the business and questions surrounding the quality of its earnings.

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