This may sound overly cynical, but hear me out. In a listings boom, better-informed company owners tend to sell premium-priced stock to enthusiastic but less well-informed buyers.
The owners know it’s a great time to market a stock (usually with a view to raising heaps of capital) with short-term earnings prospects likely to be rosy. When the ducks quack, feed them …..
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