Maybe investors are mad about their shares being diluted through these stock deals?
That could be a rational rather than irrational explanation.
1.Z knows what he is doing and thinks the share price is overvalued.
2. Z has no idea what he doing. Who wants to own a company with incompetent management that can't be voted out by the shareholders.
You buy some share in a company that you think will grow a lot; you discover that this company is not well managed, so it probably won't grow that much; you sell your stock, before the non-growth is realized.