RE:Any Prep for this data release?Hopefully. This is often what has been so lacking in the past for TH - it has been a stock where only people on this message board have been followed closely and built expectations in front of events like this. And we are a small gorup of people who are already well loaded up on the stock. So, new info comes in and, unlike almost any other stock, TH's stock price barely moves. There was never a better example of this than the news regarding the move from HIV NASH to general NASH. That was a very big deal but the stock barely budged because there were no expectations of that news built into the market. Blind-siding the market with good news like that for a underfollowed, poorly followed small cap stock like TH is simply a very bad strategy.
What's worse is I think that played a role in the OO. I suspect the company thought the stock price would have really jumped on the NASH news (they were right - it should have). Had it done so, they liely woud have had their share offering pretty close after that. But it didn't and that likely spooked them. Since they thought they would have had the extra money in their coffers in October 2020, it likely was really bothering them that it wasn't there every day thereafter. Thus the completely unnecessary rush to do a really horrible deal in early January.
The bottom line - build the appropriate amount of excitement around important announcements and don't blindside people completely with great news. Hopefully, IR did do some of that and we will see the results tomorrow. But I have not seen much evidence of such an effort.. Then again, I probably would not see it unless they were working retail investors to prepare them for this. So, In am not expecting much retail investor participation unless the stock price skyrockes on huge volume like it did last year and thereby gets on the radar screen of retail investors who chase such movements.
longterm56 wrote: Hopefully, the IR lady was busy prepping analysts and large investors for this data release. No, I don't mean informing them of the details ... just ... be ready for importantant data to be released. That's what builds excitement around such info. We'll see ...
-LT