• Neato@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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”.

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      “Illegal” doesn’t mean much anymore if you’re rich. No one seems to be enforcing anything cuz we can’t get in the way of that trickle-down.

    • Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      No it’s not. If he unloaded a huge bunch out of nowhere just before the announcement then sure, it probably is, but that’s not what happened - he has been consistently selling stock the whole year, buying none.

      What likely happens is he is paid partly, or was at some stage, in stock. To convert it to cash you need to sell it.