"and the company was a basket case for months (despite the company making announcements to the contrary)."
Really, if the ASX had any balls at all, they would really look back at this and admonish the BBI mgmt. They were, at the very least, economical with the truth.
I think that is what annoyed a lot of people who sold. They certainly left a heck of a lot of reading between the lines to be done.