PIT Problem - Delisted stocks

I think there may be a PIT problem with No OTC Exchange stock universes.

COmpany Bird Global was delisted from Nasdaq (announced 2023, i think effective 2024). The P123 ticker is BRDSQ^24.

If you make a screen in 2021 for example, and make the only critera ticker(“BRDSQ^24”), it WILL show up if you include all stocks as the starting universe, but then it disappears if you choose No OTC Exchange. But this would be a PIT problem, since in 2021, you didn’t know it would end up delisting years later.

The only thing I could be missing is if its a different ticker before it delisted, but I can’t find it.

If this is real, its a huge problem since delisted stocks being excluded before they’re delisting would be huge bias.

Looks like it's only a problem at the very beginning of the price history.

You can see it here. The flag IsOTC is correctly set to FALSE (0) at the beginning, but Universe(NOOTC) returns FALSE. Around May of 2021 it starts returning TRUE (1), matching IsOTC.

Must have to do with the limited prices. We'll investigate. Thanks

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