doctorj
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This is probably another discussion for another thread, but despite their irrational exhuberance, the people who bought these shares did so without knowing it was from the sale of directors options. Now they're shareholders of the company and both these shareholders of the company and many others (given such a high % of the companies shares have been turned over recently) and it remains to be seen, but they may fall foul of questionable disclosure practices.MichaelD said:Well, yes it was. Suddenly one day there were 6.6 million more shares in GDN which weren't there the day before which have now been sold at above $1 to other at the time seemingly irrationally exuberant shareholders.
mahmoodf said:...
Referring to the change of director's interest notice, Richard Sciano did the following:
- Exercised 6,600,000 options at a cost of $1.32 million. This is money that went directly to GDN from HIS pocket.
- Sold off 3.03 million shares at market price. If we assume an average price of $1.15 per share, this equates to approximately $3.5 million.
- Sciano's net proceeds were $3.5 million less the $1.32 million for the options exercise (approximately $2 million plus). So Sciano pocketed $2 million.
- Out of the 6.6 million options exercised, 4.4 millions were converted to ordinary shares.
- The net result was that Sciano actually INCREASED his shareholding in GDN by 1.57 million shares (4.4 million shares that were converted from the options less the 3.03 million sold on market).
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Jackob said:I wrote on 5/11/2006,
... it has become clearer to me that it might be a typical "pump-and-dump" case.
Pump: Misleading information was distributed by the company to pump up the price, such as "... the Leadville Limestone (layer) ... have (sic) been interpreted from seismic data to have the potential to contain up to 3 TCF of gas." (GDN 27/10/2006 announcement). This "3 TCF of gas" claim in the Leadville Limestone layer was completely false, and has been drooped since in later announcements.
Dump: The director dumped 5+ million shares on market at an undisclosed price (~$1).
So I am very sorry for all present GDN shareholders … The music may stop soon… take action now!
juddy said:watching this for a trade tomorrow after the hammer close today.
As a technical trader I am only concerned with one thing - price.
purehell said:not much fundamentals or general belief in the stock eh.
Agentm said:must be pure hell for those buying at $1.20i ???
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