Boca, Boka Ltd. is the lead underwriter of Kinko Company common stock. Kinko common shares are currently quoted on Nasdaq, and Boca, Boka has maintained a bid to purchase Kinko common at $9 for several days prior to Kinko's registration statement becoming effective. The last quoted price before Boca, Boka entered its $9 bid was $9.25. Just before it filed the pricing amendment, the last sale price of Kinko common stock was $9.50. Kinko filed its pricing amendment, setting an offering price of $9.50, and the Commission's staff permitted acceleration of that amendment, so that the registration statement became effective at 10 a.m. that day. Boca, Boka then increased its bid to $9.50. Do Boca, Boka's actions constitute lawful stabilization? (Stabilization is the fixing of a security's market price through purchases or bids for the limited purpose of preventing a decline in the security's price during a publicoffering of the security.)