Yeah well, let's see some proof to back up any claims of going private first. Even so, everyone would still hold the shares they own now...it would seem. UPS was a private company several years ago...and owning UPS's private company stock was a good thing if, one could even get it in the first place (One had to be in management...and yeah, it payed dividends too).
Speculations and suppositions are fine...but, where's the evidence?
I've seen nothing that makes me think this company is going private.
If, the US markets were transparent, honestly run and executed...we would be able to see if, there was a very large short position on this stock or not. The fact that companies have either lots of trouble getting accurate short and/or naked short figures for their respective stocks...or as is the case with almost all of them...they cannot get accurate and current figures for the total short positions on their stocks...well then, things are very much wrong indeed. Think about it and deduce from whence the antagonists came.