I wonder if it will hamper a 3rd positive day for AIR now the rumour is in the public arena.
early trades at 2.15
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I wonder if it will hamper a 3rd positive day for AIR now the rumour is in the public arena.
early trades at 2.15
I heard someone from Craig's this morning say, on the news, that there was a big seller of AIR, has now finished selling now and thinks the price will stabilise/rise now as it is oversold or something like that
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/airways...-hike-b-189619
Interesting to see a Government monopoly taking it easy on airlines...of course the fact that they are the majority owner of AIR would have nothing to do with it...
On the Luxon thing. He's been instrumental in implementing an ambitious growth path for the company and the company is in the process of procuring the aircraft to meet those objectives.
In my view a departure now could be viewed by the market as him not wanting to take responsibility for the outcome of those plans.
It was interesting to read in the recent analyst day briefing that their growth objectives are now in line with the tourism growth rate to N.Z. This was a subtle change from previous growth ambitions' which seemed to be considerably higher than the rate of tourism growth and tends to suggest a more disciplined approach going forward.
I think the Govt will want the lions share of any sale of VAH and given the decline in the SP will be keen to see some real cash coming into their coffers in an election year.
Interesting timing that Treasury report on how well they'd done out of AIR wasn't it ! Carefully crafted to head off any left wing criticism in regard to the collapsing SP ?
Sorry to harp on about this but the fact that a company is required to go public with its reply - even if it's a "we know nuthin" - must give the individuals involved cause to think hard before committing their signatures to the statement. Particularly if there are penalties attached to incorrect or misleading statements. Time the NZX toughened up a bit, IMO.Quote:
I tend to agree to some extent but it seems to me that this sort of price enquiry is limited to sudden one day movements in the SP and ninety nine times out of a hundred is met with the usual response with which we are all familiar.
I had also heard the particular big seller in question had been tipped off the CEO was considering options...and that may be in part the reason they are selling.
Anyway as someone who has been an executive, not CEO of the entire deal, just a CEO of an overseas subsidiary which was large, really the role is PR & Politics....you have managers and teams reporting to you for everything else. You are only as good as the team that supports you when you get down to it. Your skill set became more your ability to influence.
If sp keeps rising there will be a "do you know any reason for price rise" question before we even knew if there was a reason for the drop
I think it is reasonable that there could be two replies to the "please explain" question. There is the public answer of "we know nuthin'", which inevitably comes. But many times there is the possible private answer that can't be made public: we're in takeover negotiations that we can't talk about, we're nearing a sale of VAH but can't talk about it, our CEO is moving to Fonterra, etc, etc.
There are many exceptions where the company might know something but can't divulge anything. I think there might be some benefit in these situations being privately released to NZX (and have the information be publicly released a few weeks later).
If the company does have information that they haven't released then it might be an indictation that the info is leaking out and providing more info to NZX allows these leaky channels to be followed up after the fact. (or provides yet another leaky avenue.....)
Surely the CEO selling AIR shares when he is in negotiation for moving to a new company is itself insider trading?
https://fma.govt.nz/contact/make-a-c...plaint-online/ If people feel as strongly as I do about this then please be aware that in my experience the FMA react to public pressure.
On the day that rumours resurface of Mr Luxon's possible move to Fonterra the SP rises strongly...go figure ?