Market situation30 Jun 2020 21:25
Disclaimer - I am not an expert in financial market and this is just my views based on what I see of my investments.
People have been surprised with the sp reaction after good news today and debating theories. I have a following theory,
All investors who wanted to invest in GGP have parked their money currently into this, so no more topping up, I.e. no buys. We also have 2nd type of investors who buy in anticipation of news, typically jump in around 2 weeks before. The sp will move when lot of buyers jump here and drops back again when they sell back on news, to invest that money, for 4 weeks, into another stock. As today's news was unexpected, these 2nd set of investors didn't have free cash to jump in.
I have observed this with another holding this week, EQT. It has bagged 4x in last couple of months without news but yesterday an unexpected very good news came and there was hardly noticeable movement.
The rise of stocks in last few months has also been attributed to Covid stock market situation. I mean people have pulled out from major oil, tourism, bank and other companies impacted due to covid and invested into stocks like GGP, getting it to rise substantially. Now all that money is parked, there is lack of free cash floating in the market to invest further. In the recovery phase currently, oil, tourism and other stock are also going back up including the POG and money is going back there.
Anyway, this is my theory based on sp reactions of 2 stocks in am invested in.
GL