RE: PT Barnum once said... That is fine with what you're saying, but how do you explain that the CEO owns 1.8 million shares and now they're worth a fraction of what once were, and also all these institutional funds holding millions of shares? You seem to be enmeshed in some kind of conspiratorial theory about the nature of things. Conspiracy theories thrive where real knowledge of things and events is lacking; they are a short cut to knowledge, so to speak.