Some of you won't like this, but anyway.

As you might know, I have never believed that the share price whispers anything. On the contrary, it is not the cause of whatever will happen, but rather a consequence of what happened in the past, of a company's business results, of the market's expectations, and of shareholders' emotions. (Okay, agreed, since some people believe in the "whispering" hypothesis, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy to a certain extend.)

It made me smile when a read the following today in this article about Apple. Seems I can now quote Steve Jobs and Apple as witnesses for my theory:

And during the Jobs years, at least, Apple had a healthy disdain for Wall Street. Every executive says some version of “I don’t think about the stock price. If we do things the right way, it will take care of itself.” Jobs was a tyrant about getting products out in time for Apple’s next big “Steve-note” but seemed undisturbed about missing quarterly estimates. I remember asking him once if he was concerned that some semi-important decision (I think it had to do with whether Apple should allow people to unlock their iPhones) might cause the stock to go down. “Screw the shareholders,” he said.

This is also the stance of POET's management. They don't worry about the share price and how it might respond to this or that action. They focus fully on business success. And when that comes to pass, the share price will care for itself.