Sale by insiders
Credit to Author: EMETERIO SD. PEREZ| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:18:35 +0000
Enrique K. Razon Jr. is the majority stockholder of Prime Metroline Holdings Inc. and Quasar Holdings Inc., which indirectly hold for him 5.936 billion common shares, or 53.80 percent, and 921.184 million common shares, or 8.35 percent, respectively, of 11.013 billion outstanding common shares of Bloomberry Resorts Corp. (BRC).
When recomputed, 5,935,972,444 BRC shares represent 53.8995365 percent of 11,013,030,591 outstanding BRC common shares and 921,184,056 BRC common shares equal to 8.364 percent.
In an explanatory note, Bloomberry said as “the controlling stockholder of Prime Metroline, Quasar Holdings and Falcon Investco Holdings Inc., Razon directly and indirectly owns 7,584,889,332 shares, or 68.89 percent. Some of which are lodged with the PCD Nominee Corp.”
Bloomberry also said in a preliminary information statement (PIS) that PCD Nominee holds BRC common shares as record stockholder for beneficial owner Global Gaming Philippines LLC, a subsidiary of Global Gaming Asset Management.
The PIS listed PCD Nominee as record holder of 3.174 billion BRC common shares, or 28.76 percent, for foreigners. In the same filing, Bloomberry identified only as “various parties” the “name of beneficial owner and relationship with record owner”.
Again, when computed, 3,173,604,073 BRC common shares equal to 28.817 percent of 11,013,030,591 outstanding BRC common shares.
On its own, Global Gaming directly owns 921.184 million BRC common shares, or 8.35 percent, according to the PIS.
PCD Nominee also holds 716.244 million BRC common shares, or 6.49 percent, (which is 6.504 percent) for Filipino stockholders.
Bloomberry issued the PIS to inform its stockholders that Razon, along with the company’s other executives, will meet with them during the annual meeting to be held at 2 p.m. on April 11, 2019 at The Theatre Solaire Resort & Casino.
Sale 1
Ramon F. Villavicencio, a member of the 15-person board of San Miguel Corp. (SMC), sold 10,000 SMC common shares at P174.90 per share on Feb. 18, 2019. After the sale, he directly owns 35,000 SMC common shares and indirectly holds 9,000 SMC common shares.
On Feb. 19, 2019, SMC common shares opened trading at P174, hit a high of P177, dropped to a low of P172 and closed the session at P174. The day before, that is, on Feb. 18. 2019, the stock opened at P165, peaked at P175.70, fell to a low of P165 and closed the session at P174.50. Trading on SMC common shares hit a 30-day high of P177 and fell to a month’s low of P144.80.
Sale 2
Alfred V. Ty, a member of the 12-person board of the Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. (MBT), sold 227,000 MBT common shares in 30 trades from Feb. 12, 13, and 14, 2019. The sale, which ranged from a low of P82.05 to a high of P82.55, reduced his MBT holdings to indirect ownership of 48,558,666 MBT common shares, or 1.2201 percent, and direct ownership of 15,121,879 MBT common shares.
On Feb. 19, 2019, MBT common shares opened trading at P80.35, hit a high of P82.10, fell to a low of P80.05 and closed the day’s session at P82.10. On Feb. 18, 2019, MBT common shares opened the session at P80.10, hit a high of P81, dropped to a low of P79.90 and closed at P80.40. The stock hit a 30-day high of P84.45 and a month’s low of P76.65.
Due Diligencer’s take
Preferred shares represent ownership in a stock corporation. This is the reason why they are among the entries under stockholders’ equity, along with outstanding capital stock (ACS), additional paid-in capital (APIC), and retained earnings.
Most of the 300 or so listed companies sell non-voting preferred shares to the public. In a number of listed family-owned companies, they exclusively issue voting preferred shares to the owners.
Strictly speaking, voting and non-voting preferred shares are liabilities. As liabilities, preferred shares may be convertible to common shares, which carry voting rights. This depends on their convertibility feature, which is decided by the board of directors before the directors allow their issuance.
It seems it is only in this country’s stock market where preferred shares are either non-voting or voting. One of the readers of The Manila Times commented that it is only in the Philippines where holders of preferred shares enjoy voting rights.
By the way, the performance of certain stocks does not necessarily give insiders the advantage over the public based on disclosures posted on PSE website. Are their acquisitions or sales have anything to do with the release of either annual or quarterly financial reports? Just asking.
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