re: Options Scare Hits SafeNet, JuniperThere's a pretty easy way to check. Look at any company's proxy statements under 'Option grants in lastest fiscal year' and compare to the exercise price of the grants to the price at which the stock traded during the year. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
re: Options Scare Hits SafeNet, JuniperThere's a pretty easy way to check. Look at any company's proxy statements under 'Option grants in lastest fiscal year' and compare to the exercise price of the grants to the price at which the stock traded during the year. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
c_headed is right, and it looks like folks are doing just that. Another company that's been mentioned in a report elsewhere is F5.
re: Options Scare Hits SafeNet, JuniperIf any company should be on the list its Bookham.
With the gift of enormous amounts of reserved stock to its execs, massive pumping of its stock price and subsequent scaling back of its forecasts there has to be something worth investigating.
re: Options Scare Hits SafeNet, JuniperIMO, its all a pure stock options play. May be back-dating was going on, but making this a big event/news just on option expiration was planned ahead. I don't think it was coincidence. Option back-dating was going on for a while (sometime in year 2005) and it didn't happen during last few weeks/months.
re: Options Scare Hits SafeNet, JuniperYou are right about Bookham. They have got to be one of the worst optics company still in business.
<< If any company should be on the list its Bookham.
With the gift of enormous amounts of reserved stock to its execs, massive pumping of its stock price and subsequent scaling back of its forecasts there has to be something worth investigating. >>
c_headed is right, and it looks like folks are doing just that. Another company that's been mentioned in a report elsewhere is F5.
With the gift of enormous amounts of reserved stock to its execs, massive pumping of its stock price and subsequent scaling back of its forecasts there has to be something worth investigating.
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If any company should be on the list its Bookham.
With the gift of enormous amounts of reserved stock to its execs, massive pumping of its stock price and subsequent scaling back of its forecasts there has to be something worth investigating.
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