Anyone know roughly when the filing dates would be that show where the dilution shares landed?
Glancing over the institutional filings since January, it's been almost entirely selling and very minor buys except just one or two firms. Where are all these disposed and issued shares going? I find it hard to believe retail buying is behind it considering retail hates this place. If they're being returned to lenders to cover, who are the lenders that have so much to lend? The list of big holders is pretty small these days.
Is it possible for market makers to scrape shares off the market on behalf of an acquirer if asked? If so, can that be done without being noticed, i.e. no filings? Was the high short interest their way of hedging this activity while this was being done? When a company is acquired for X billion, does that take into account what they got on the cheap prior to the announcement, or is it just the overall valuation, i.e. we get bought out for X billion but the acquirer only paid 20% of that to collect the remaining shares?
Is this J&E's fabled "share grab"?