Thanks Tim.Yes - am suggesting that the statistics are known...

Thanks Tim.

Yes - am suggesting that the statistics are known before the quarterly report is released.

That is why in my sceptical outlook that I refer to institutions/insiders.
Have observed this happing reliably and often in the past.

This may not be true of all companies.

It may be that the early statistics are available to all if personally requested - or some such situation.

Whatever!

Just observe what happens with this company over time.

However it regularly happens that private shareholders in companies are the last to know of positive - or negative - news and by the time the information is public most of the share price reaction has already taken place.

Nothing new or unusual about that.