Overstock’s Ghosts Won’t Go Away as Stock Flirts With Decade Low

  • Company still grappling with the fallout of founder’s exit
  • SEC is seeking information about insider sales, dividend
Patrick M. Byrne at an Overstock warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 29, 2010.Photographer: George Frey/Bloomberg
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More than two months after its founder quit in a dustup involving an affair with a Russian operative, Overstock.com Inc. is still grappling with the fallout from his legacy.

The online merchant this week disclosed a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking information related to sales of shares by company insiders and its blockchain-based dividend. The disclosure, combined with disappointing financial results and a potential share offering, sent the stock down 17% to trade around the level it was during the depths of the global financial crisis in 2009.