• Envis10n@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    So he sells a bunch of shares right before the announcement that is likely going to tank their stock price

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      1 year ago

      Pretty sure CEOs need to jump through more hoops to sell their shares like reporting that they plan to sell.

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        1 year ago

        And if they don’t, sometimes they get a slap on the wrist, assuming the money is still within the country. Which it ain’t.

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        Yeah. I’m not one to defend CEOs but don’t they usually have these orders in place years in advance?

        Edit: Ask a question. Get a downvote but no correction. Why?

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        1 year ago

        You think they just suddenly came up with this model? No shit they have to jump through hoops. That doesn’t stop them from doing it in advance of something like this

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      1 year ago

      A “bunch” being 2000 when he still owns like 3000x that. This was a quarterly tax sell off that an unethical reporter is using to get clicks.

      Hes a dick but this stock selling isn’t nefarious.

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      Not that scumbag ceos wouldn’t do such a thing, but doesn’t appear to be the case here: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/U/ Anyways, investors love this subscription model recurring revenue junk, makes sense that if anything their stock price has risen from this announcement. We’ll see how it pans out in the long term though.

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        1 year ago

        Depending on how long the backlash can stick around, I would expect to see it go down with a large exodus. In particular, if Microsoft gets upset about the impact it could have to gamepass. Unity does seem to be backtracking, but it really feels like they overextended on purpose to make the actual result feel less shitty

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      1 year ago

      If you RTFA he’s been selling shares steadily over the last year. This is not exactly a sudden dump.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I did read it. Doesn’t mean he didn’t know that there would be backlash