The Lone Analyst Who Said Sell Valeant When Hedge Funds Piled In

  • Khmelnitsky watched shares double in a year, before crashing
  • `I stayed with the call,' Veritas analyst says in interview

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In July 2014, Dimitry Khmelnitsky advised investors to sell Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. and then watched the stock double in a year.

“It was very painful,” Khmelnitsky, an analyst at Veritas Investment Research Corp., said in an telephone interview from his office in Toronto. “What I felt was pain.”