"so most of it now has been wasted on recovering from drop"
Believe it or not, that is not the point of a buyback.
Something else that may also completely blow your mind: it's not even the company's job to influence the share price. Do you know what their actual job is?
Or do you think the company should call a crisis meeting over the fact that the SP is 5% lower than it was before they reported results?
" if go off modest results... was there any reason to expect better in first place."
No idea what you are even trying to say here.
A2M Price at posting:
$6.73 Sentiment: Buy Disclosure: Held
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