British healthtech scaleup Babylon is having a rocky 2022. It went public on the New York Stock Exchange in a $4.2bn SPAC deal last October but has since seen its share price drop by 90%. Shares are now trading at less than $1 — meaning it could soon get kicked out of the stock market.
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