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Monday, August 22, 2022

Old News, Being Reported Now -- Back In 2020 -- Wells Fargo Bungled An OXY Sale -- August 22, 2022

Link here.

  • Wells Fargo doesn't contest that it bungled the deal; contests the impact to its client;
  • client's name not shared?
  • the plan agreed to in December 2019, pre-Covid
    • Wells Fargo to sell equal daily tranches of 381,420 shares for one week, beginning January 6, 2020
    • priced ~ $46 / share
    • to be done in daily tranches to prevent sudden impact of huge sale and drop in sales price
  • an employee who had never handled such a large transaction sold 381,420 shares on one day in January and sold no shares at all on three of the planned days
  • by early March, OXY: $11 / share
    • March 20, 2020, two months after the agreed sale period, Wells Fargo dumped 1.1 million shares in a bulk transaction, driving the company's shares to $9.98
    • that kind of price collapse was what the oil company had hoped to avoid through a staged sale that didn't flood the market with shares
  • at time of agreed sale: priced at $46
  • at time sale took place, OXY had dropped to $11
  • nimble, agile? Not found in Wells Fargo lexicon.

On the other hand, due to pre-Covid, OXY dropped from from $46 to $11

  • the drop from $11 to $10 seems irrelevant

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