Warren - not hard to look up insider sales.
Some of the Directors exercised options in April and sold a portion of them on the public market to pay for the shares - no big deal. However, the Chairman of the Board did make a sizeable sale in April of 500K shares at $8.64 - that no doubt sent a negative signal. I'll be at the AGM and may ask about that. To be fair though, the overall commodity market tumbled after that and we did go through a major drop and then pop in late March that might have made him a little more risk averse. But his sale could explain the larger drop in BNK relative to the overall market.
As for the earnings. As a few posted on this board - no idea where they got the estimate of 14 cents - but based on the alrady announced production numbers, sales price, netback forecasts in the companies presentations, and the fact that Albania has 50% profit tax - it was clar there was no way the company could come close 14 cents. on EBITDA they are probably close - given that taxes are $9M+ and they had a busload of depreciation. Perhaps thats what the ANALysts were referring to, but under IFRS - they really ought to base estimates on Net Income/number of shares outstanding.
BTW - Annon is still selling but seemingly running out of steam/shares/will.
My take is that, although the drop was swift, its going to take awhile for oil stocks to get the support they had.
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Apr 14/11 Brown, Eric Direct Ownership Public market sale Common Shares 8.630 -30,000 -17% 145,999
Apr 14/11 Brown, Eric Direct Ownership Exercise of options Common Shares 3.030 116,666 > 100% 175,999
Apr 14/11 Brown, Eric Direct Ownership Exercise of options Options 0.000 -116,666 -32% 250,001
Apr 14/11 Harris, Jonathan Direct Ownership Public market sale Common Shares 8.630 -25,000 -33% 50,000
Apr 14/11 Harris, Jonathan Direct Ownership Exercise of options Common Shares 3.030 25,000 50% 75,000
Apr 14/11 Harris, Jonathan Direct Ownership Exercise of options Options 0.000 -25,000 -5% 451,667
Apr 14/11 Cross, Robert Melvin Douglas Indirect Ownership Public market sale Common Shares 8.640 -500,000 -19% 2,120,267
Apr 13/11 Christensen, Hans Eugene Direct Ownership Grant of options Options 0.000 100,000 14% 800,000
Apr 13/11 Hodgson, Mark Alan Direct Ownership Grant of options Options 0.000 100,000 33% 400,000
Apr 13/11 Gupta, Suneel Krishan Direct Ownership Grant of options Options 0.000 200,000 17% 1,349,000