Isn’t this insider trading? If I owned a company and sold all my stock and then tanked my company with stupid news, that’d be illegal.
Though I’m surprised they sold it before the news. This kind of fund-raising tactics piss off customers but investors usually love it, the short-sighted creatures they are.
It’s obviously insider trader but laws are for the poors.
The guy who owns the company knows what it means for the long term stock price: a plummet. He knows that’ll come eventually if these changes go through.
Investors may react positively to the news, but when they see the damage it actually does, they’ll pull out too.
The guy running the company has shares that are valued way higher than when he earned them, he is sitting so high right now it’s far worth selling here instead of gambling on the response to the news. It’s just simple “quit while you’re ahead”.
record scratch I-I-I-Insider trading!
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As much as I can’t stand John Riccitiello, anyone with RSUs will have vested stocks sold on a fixed schedule to cover taxes. They don’t get to choose when or how much is sold as long as they have their RSUs configured as sell to cover. The executives are no different in this regard, except they have a great deal more stocks than the average employee. However, this doesn’t absolve them of the awful new pricing structure. That shit should have been walked back before it ever left the planning stages.
So nobody would ever time such an announcement after such a divestiture.
Don’t get me wrong, the timing was fucking abysmal. They really should have thought about that ahead of time, but these executives rarely think about anything other than how to line their own pockets.
So your saying they didn’t time the share sales with respect to the announcement- they timed the announcement with respect to the fixed share sales date.
I’m saying they didn’t think about it at all because it’s easier to blame users for misunderstanding than take responsibility for anything themselves.
