The naysayers had their fun today ... jerking off in their proverbrial tissues. Now, out comes the proctologist with the baseball bat.
The naysayers tried to get cute, expecting earnings to be weak and/or hoping Merritt would trip over his own words giving an opportunity to drive down the price in order to have a repeat of the price decline after the YE results in February. Nope, not gonna happen, it can't ... because something is afoot in the Kingdom of Prussia. Frederick I must be smiling in his grave.