RE: Bulls v Bears14 Feb 2018 12:51
tinlid, if someone holds 60, 70 or even 73 percent of a company (like these befriended II's), then they will usually do price maintenance by supporting buys. Often this is because they cannot allow the m-cap to drop below a certain line.
Just recently, because there were not any supporting institutional buys, the m-cap has dropped below one billion Pounds(!) for the first time in decades.
Another subject to think about is that someone with 70% stake has a strong influence on the share price altogether. So you could be right that they allow shorters to proceed, crash the price down to earth, and buy-out the entire company cheap as chips.
Very few normal PIS can hold from 2,000p, 1000p and even just 800p down to 450p.
Very people survive this, and PFG can be sure that the majority of (expandable) PIs has left by then.