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We're not using any shares to close the deal with Amobee.

As of now, I believe every single share we bought back is under water. While I expect this to change (or I wouldn't be here), this is one reason I don't like companies in which I invest to take place in 'stock investing'.

Tricky,

Absolutely correct about the opportunity to arbitrage the spread.

Tricky,

I believe it ends tomorrow.

Algo trading is here to stay.

SNN,

I've yet to listen to the YouTube video you posted, will do so later. That being said, Peter Schiff makes too much sense to me. But he's been preaching the same doom and gloom for a couple decades. At least.

OK, it's playing right now. He's spot on about inflation. The US Government are liars...big time.

Tricky,

This is, indeed, a small world. Also full of coincidences.

The dude from Oregon sounds like a moron to me...I am not the least bit into hugging another dude (or listening to some loudmouth brag). A hot young chick is another story altogether when it comes to hugs. Too bad I aged out of that 20 or so years ago.

No hugs here. And NOBODY gives a rat's rear about somebody else's business. BTW: Hugs are not at all big in the USA unless with friends. I feel so awkward when I am on the Continent and people greet with the cheek kiss thing. Fish out of water on that one.

Did the loudmouth Yank tell you which part of Oregon he's from?

Coincidentally, this past Thursday I made an appointment with my dentist to have the crowns made for 5 implants my oral surgeon implanted in me a while back (I got into a car wreck when I was much younger, ate the steering wheel, busted my jaw and traumatized the hell out of several of my teeth. I hung on as long as I could, because there's nothing like original equipment.) My bill is going to be in the neighborhood of $35,000...or more. Not a good neighborhood when it comes to something like this, but that's what it costs in the States if one uses a competent oral surgeon.

Tricky...no question mark? Bad Tricky.

Then again, it could be taken as a rhetorical comment...but either way, yes. They've accelerated the buyback through 1 September.

Biffa,

I'd bet a dollar to a dime that our good performance today is due to the stock buyback.

JR,

The volume on my screen changed late in the evening. It came in at 310,053 for Wednesday, so only a difference of 5 shares between our sources.

The final volume recorded for Thursday was 2,510,109. Quite the difference from Wednesday to Thursday.

Tricky,

As mentioned a number of times previously, I always capitalize the "M" in Money, the "C" in Cash, etc., to show proper respect.

As far as accountability goes, there is almost ZERO when it comes to where taxpayers' Money goes after the US Government gets our Money into its greedy mitts. It is atrocious.

For Tricky,

I realize "taxpayers' Money" should have used the possessive plural. Forgive me...

JR, we have a saying over here (perhaps it's not exclusive to us)...when something is done imprecisely or haphazardly (or better yet, can I say "half-a$$ed"?), we'll say "good enough for government work", because my government does NOTHING well. Not one effing thing...except spend taxpayers Money foolishly to the extreme.

Today's volume was very healthy, suggesting to me we were buying a fair bit back, but we didn't move the needle on price at all for some odd reason. Looking forward to seeing today's share buyback number tomorrow.

I see total volume as of your close (16:35hr your time) of 2,418,413 shares. My source does not pick up any shares that trade after the 16:35hr close.

Average daily volume for the past three months is 1.06 million shares on this site, so today was well above normal.

Thanks, JR.

I see on the LSE screen there're several trades reported after the close. But they don't add up...still, the total volume for today was very low.

I am seeing only 295,041 shares trade today in London.

Is this correct? Can anyone verify?

BTW: I realize they're buying the stock back at super cheap prices, but why are we so cheap?

We've not lived up to promises made by mgt.

And yes, I expect this may turn out to be a good move in the long run...but I am not paying these guys to speculate in the market. I'll leave that up to me.

I just want mgt to run the biz, something they've yet to show me they can do well.

Personally, I've got to go with Rusty's 16:41hr below post on this one.

But he was understating the attitude of NASDAQ investors. Small, growing companies in a high growth space, competing against giants in the same space, simply do not pay a dividend. It doesn't happen as long as there is market share to gain...it's all about 'grabbing as much real estate as possible'.

Also, I'd prefer to not pay people or companies to financially engineer / manipulate the price of the stock. I want the stock to grow on good fundamentals. I want mgt to run the company and execute on their promises rather than spend about 11 million USD in fees on an IPO, not execute on promises made when promoting the IPO, then use a good chunk of the funds to buy back stock issued during the IPO, never mind the egregious SBC pay packages they awarded themselves (along with the comp committed) to do a lousy job for the shareholders, a euphemism for bag holders in this case...and that would be us.

I'm seeing total volume of the common of only 851,360.

Stock held up pretty well considering.

Looking forward to seeing the amount we repurchased.

Should be "of total volume" below.

On Friday, 19 August, the stock buyback accounted for a smidge under 30% or total volume on that day, which cost us 2,747,473 GBP.

The buyback program ends on 1 September.

Fingers crossed the weak hands will have sold by then, otherwise look out below.

Financial engineering is not what I signed up for.

Hey Rusty,

Good to hear from you.

Frankly, I am happy we're listed on the NASDAQ for personal reasons. My only complaint is the pay package they gave themselves for the 'successful IPO', and how poorly management has executed since the IPO. We've not exactly lived up to expectations as outlined by mgt.

Then again, the top three paid themselves something like $5 million for the wonderful IPO on the NASDAQ, so 2022 might not be more. But I don't believe they vested options until after April of 2021, so who knows...not me.

They sure earned their Money for the busted IPO, eh?