Lets see if I have this straight. We have an absolute ceiling on this stock established by two MMS. Operations and earnings are irrelevent to share value. The two MMs may or may not be operating with shares they own. What options are available?
1. Increase public PR and hope to get larger public investment (but who would want to invest if they knew that the stock was suspected to be manipulatd?)
2. Increase public and private PR and put on another roadshow for institutional investors (this was tried with little interest, TAVA rightly or wrongly is seen as a Y2K company still).
3. Get a good insider investment banker and play the game according to the rules of the big guys (expensive, and so far no one has come up to bat).
4. Institute a share buyback. (Just how many shares do the MMs hold, and where are they getting them? - could this be like pumping money into Brazil?)
5. Wait for Y2k disaster, if it happens, and hope public opinion will rise like a tidal wave?
Frankly, I don't know what good PR would do right now. Scott's ideas of combined news events, etc, and timing, have not been effective. Yesterday, I really feel it could have given a momentum to this stock that it has lacked. There was interest, and huge positive response to the earnings. Today, it would look like putting a finger in a dike.
Am I missing something here? What else could TAVA do to break the artificial ceiling on their shareprice. I know many of you will say stop diluting the stock with options, but do you seriously think that is why the price of this stock is where it is at? Ideas anyone?
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