Oh they care about the shareholders, BIG TIME. Just not the ones that don't happen to be banks.
Allowing the banks to maximize there tax write off in 2014, and buy back in at 15 cents or so in 2015, I'd say the banks are very well taken care off.
Meanwhile, they feed us a "story" about a gold stream, to keep us (non bank shareholders) in the stock, and then keep us in the dark.
Trust me, the bank common shareholders are very well taken care of, and they are not worried about waiting for the returns that are coming.
As for me, I just keep buying......MORE SHARES!
Ta daaaaaaaaaaaa