MSB 3.32% $1.01 mesoblast limited

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    The constant grinding of our share price through $1.70 - $1.90 I put down to just one thing (with thanks to @ecoool2).
    It's the industrial scale of short selling - motivated by pure greed in the first place ( 100% anti investment) and then fired by the additional fear of being painted into a disastrous short squeeze and having to deal with the long time required to use price manipulation strategies to castrate their own their ill conceived shorting strategies in the first place.


    Except that there has been negligible change in the net short position of MSB stock over the past month, or the past 3 months, for that matter.

    So the actions of short-sellers has not been a determinant of whatever MSB's share price has done.

    Just like shorting activity cannot be blamed for MSB's longer term share price under-performance, as the fact charted below, attest:

    MSB Shorts.JPG

    As can be seen from the chart, over the past 3 years, shorts (the dark blue line) have reduced from in excess of 7% of MSB's issued shares, to less than 5% today.

    Yet, despite this short covering, the share price (the light grey line) has more than halved, from $4.00 to $1.80.

    So whatever is impacting the share price over time, the available evidence demonstrates that it isn't shorting activity.
 
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$1.01
Change
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Mkt cap ! $1.167B
Open High Low Value Volume
$1.01 $1.04 99.0¢ $2.277M 2.234M

Buyers (Bids)

No. Vol. Price($)
13 73764 $1.01
 

Sellers (Offers)

Price($) Vol. No.
$1.02 34623 20
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