MrFred
7 hours ago
An insider of a company, as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is an officer, director, or 10% shareholder of a company that has inside information into the company because of their relationship to the company or with an officer, director, or principal shareholder of the company. Me thinks that if the BOD are sitting as directors because you nominated them and a number of them are officers of your company, you are by definition an insider.
JRoon71
7 hours ago
LB, my "agenda" is to maximize my return. I have a lot of shares riding on this. I don't short stocks (ever), and have no interest in this board, other than gathering as much info and data on AMRN as possible (especially since it is so thinly covered by analysts).
I spend way more time here than I would like, but I never imagined 4 years ago that we would be here today (the SP), so here I am.
Side note, I was one of the biggest LB fans back in the 80's. I grew up outside of Boston, and spent many a night watching the Big 4 spank the Lakers and Sixers. Not many teams compare to the 80's Celtics.
JRoon71
7 hours ago
1. Denner is not an insider yet. He has not reached that threshold, and is not on the board. Thus he is not prohibited from shorting the stock.
2. Sarissa stated in their proxy filing with the SEC that they could employ shorting as a strategy with Amarin. It is stated in black and white.
3. I believe they (or their proxy, such as Morgan Stanley) have been shorting in order to use it as a springboard for the stock price when the time is right. Why else would there be 18M shares short almost this entire year? On 4/15/24 there were 18,190K shares short. On 12/13/24 there were 18,190K shares short. The short interest has oscillated around that number all year. Who would logically still have that exact many shares short when the stock is at 40 cents? I don't think there is malicious intent. In fact, the exact opposite - I think it is a strategic move by them.
4. Back to Morgan Stanley - follow their pattern of AMRN holdings over the past 12 quarters, in relationship to Sarissa's AMRN holdings. It's eye-opening.
Finally, does everyone think that driving the stock price down to 40 cents just occurred organically? I mean do people REALLY believe that?
I'm not saying I am 100% correct. I may certainly be wrong. But for the love of god, open your eyes. Sarissa got involved in this stock when it had climbed back to nearly $9 in early 2021. No, they hadn't made a purchase yet. But they were certainly analyzing it at that point.
Do you know that a current Amarin board member was HEAVILY trading AMRN options beginning in January of 2021, WELL before Sarissa ever made a single purchase?
You all can continue to see what you want to see, but there's a whole shit-ton of activity going on behind the scenes that we are not privy to.
JRoon71
1 day ago
Sleven, would you mind posting proof that Sarissa is not shorting?
Considering their statement that this is one strategy that they could employ (in their proxy statement, filed with the SEC), it is not a stretch.
Simply because you can't prove something, does not make it false.
You believe Amarin is going to prevail in their lawsuit, but have no proof of that, other than your own belief.
You thought BRAVE was going to show a positive outcome, without any proof of that, other than your own belief.
I believe Sarissa (or their proxies) are responsible for some or all of the short interest in AMRN. They have stated they may do that. I believe them.
Denisk
1 day ago
RMB, SLEVEN. IMO this statement that Denner has been shorting the stock does not make sensedue to the following facts:
The total number of shares traded since Jan 8, 2024 to DEC 31, 2024 was 390.960 million shares, that’s an average of 1.570 million shares traded daily. (785 thousand shares bought and sold daily).
The high of the year was $1.37 per share and the low was $0.43 with a total monthly shorted shares of 4.87% throughout the year (per Nasdaq short interest list throughout the year). So let us say Denner shorted 100 thousand shares daily(which is roughly 12 % of the average traded shares daily, not counting other institutions or retail holders shorting) and he realized a net gain of $0.94 that would give him a profit of approximately $23 million and bring his average to $3.06 from his original purchase price of $4.60.
I just don’t think that is possible and wouldn’t that expose him to numerous lawsuits?
Can you explain to me how you can state that is was shorting the stock during this all time?
Denisk
1 day ago
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John Nelson MD,FACC,FNLA,FASNC
Author
Director at California Cardiovascular Institute
1mo
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JRoon71
2 days ago
Sure, but what does that tell you about their confidence in this lawsuit?
This is not Hikma's first rodeo. They get sued all the time. It is literally part of their business model. They have over 800 products they sell, do nearly $3B in revenue, have a market cap of $5.5B, and I doubt they are that worried about Amarin. If they were, they would have withdrawn from selling IPE.
And even if Amarin is somehow still around in 4 or 5 years, and happens to win the appeal of the appeal, they then have a protracted fight about the damages. And there will be extensive analysis of how to arrive at "lost profits" for Amarin. And this process will drag on for years.
Look at GSK vs. Teva. Very similar case. Filed in 2014, still ongoing to this day. They're actually talking about a potential new trial. https://casetext.com/case/glaxosmithkline-llc-v-teva-pharm-us-3 . Amarin's case was only filed in 2020. How much money do you think GSK has spent on this trial? And Teva? And do you think Hikma can outlast Amarin?
The company is going to be sold long before this lawsuit ever has any impact on Amarin. A final, post-appeal decision is at least 4 years away. The only thing happening right now is lawyers getting rich.
I know others see it differently, and that is fine. I'm more concerned with Amarin's actual operations, not in a lawsuit that will likely never amount to anything meaningful for Amarin.