Agreed Paulness, IMO this law suite news and talk of dilution has been out there for 6 months now. Plenty of time for those that wanted out to leave, it's not new news. The stock price we see has the dilution built in. Also, If sewing firms want stock instead of money in a global settlement, should say a lot about ACT's overall technology.
Last year ACT increased their shares 250m (ish) and it didn't effect the share price very much at all.
No one knows what the settlement will look like till it's done, and that will be it for the toxic finance deals in the past. Anyway do you think these firms that receive any shares are going to dump them? No, they'll wait just like everyone else is doing for a positive result of trials, JV, China money and a massive increase in stock price. Remember when ACT traded 80 million shares in one day! That's coming again, it's just a matter of time.
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