Institutional Ownership
The moment this stock is living goes beyond terrible, but I went through the 13/F filings that were due around this period and...
~1M shares bought by HRT Financials RP
~1,3M shares bought by Charles Schwab
~2M shares bought by Millennium Management
~3,7M shares bought by Great Point Partners
~5M shares bought by Davidson Kempner Group
~1,5M shares bought by Citadel.
~6M shares bought by Alyeska.
And many, really many more. And I just highlighted some newly opened positions, there are many increases by large institutions, like Vanguard which reached 10M shares. Of course, there are sells too, but way less. This is institutional activity that would make any small cap stock skyrocket for months.
To be fair, many of these players, like Alyeska and Citadel, are known speculative investors, so they buy and sell within a year, not the kind of long term buyers one might hope for.
And yet, this is not an institutional ownership profile that reflects the current situation of both the company and the stock. Maybe they bought, as many did by what the filings report, around the end of June hoping to make quick bucks on the ER (gotta say, not really institutional behaviour). Or maybe they know something more.