saw this and thought people may be interested that concerns raised about various manipulation is not something to be sniffed at;
THG has handed over a dossier to the City regulator which its boss Matt Moulding hopes proves that hedge funds and stockbrokers colluded to sink the price of the online retailer's shares. Included is data on what it believes is irregular stock market trading and short-selling. Moulding is particularly suspicious of the selling that ensued following the company´s investor day on 2 October that wiped almost nearly £2bn off THG's valuation in a matter of hours. - The Sunday Times
50 times more buys than sells and price goes down.
"Meanwhile, James Bond is looking over his shoulder at a certain webslinger. Forecasts are predicting a huge box office weekend for Spider-Man: No Way Home, landing somewhere between $135 – $185 million. And it’s buoyed by — you guessed it — an ”exclusive theatrical release.”
No Time to Die has secured the record for the highest-grossing Hollywood release of 2021.
The title was previously held by Fast & Furious 9 with a meaty $721m at the global box office, but Daniel Craig's swansong as 007 crept up to $734m over the weekend to become the highest-grossing film in Hollywood of the pandemic era (via Box Office Mojo).
https://www.fool.co.uk/2021/11/12/why-2022-could-be-the-year-of-the-cineworld-share-price/
Barclays Reiterates Equalweight Rating on Cineworld Group Plc. (CINE:LN) (CNWGY)
November 16, 2021 8:06 AM EST
Barclays analyst Richard Taylor
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4459921-card-factory-distressed-and-undervalued
https://www.fool.co.uk/2021/11/12/why-2022-could-be-the-year-of-the-cineworld-share-price/
Apologies if anyone has already posted.
https://deadline.com/2021/10/global-box-office-2021-projection-22-billion-analysts-1234862491/
An estimate of $3.2B for the month of October would land its business just 4% behind the average of the three pre-pandemic years (2017-2019). No previous month in 2021 has performed better than 40% behind the three-year average, per Gower Street.
Banner wknd for #NoTimeToDie breaking $100M in UK, $400M intl & $500M at global #boxoffice.
Domestic $119.7M
Intl $405.6M
Worldwide $525.4M
Only the 2nd Hollywood film of pandemic to break $500M after #F9. China opens this FRI. New #JamesBond on track for $700M+, maybe $750M+.
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$47.4M intl wknd for #Dune led by $22.2M opening in China and $7.5M UK debut. Overseas cume now $180.6M putting global #boxoffice at $220.7M. #DuneMovie looks on track to break $400M, maybe even $450M too.
North American Top 10 #boxoffice grossed $92.9M this wknd which is back to a VERY normal level for this time of year. Top 10 this same wknd in 2019 did $91.5M. 4th wknd of OCT in 2018 did $91M. Attendance at multiplexes this wknd is quite similar to pre-pandemic times.
RE: Bond movie figures
It cost around 250 million plus 100 million advertising. Around 700 million cinema box office will take care of that assuming 50/50 split with cinemas overall. it has already taken close to 500 million and china still to come. it would then be expected to make the same again from, streaming / rental / dvd markets. whoever says bond is a flop is a fool.
https://www.fool.co.uk/2021/10/15/the-cineworld-share-price-has-turned-a-corner/
60% of card factory is held by institutions !
Holder Shares % Held
Teleios Capital Partners GmbH
AS OF 09 JUN 2021
68.40m 20.01%
Artemis Investment Management LLP
AS OF 24 AUG 2021
34.58m 10.11%
Aberforth Partners LLP
AS OF 09 JUN 2021
22.75m 6.66%
Majedie Asset Management Ltd.
AS OF 09 JUN 2021
16.82m 4.92%
Coutts & Co.
AS OF 01 OCT 2021
15.60m 4.56%
Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers Ltd.
AS OF 01 OCT 2021
14.73m 4.31%
Norges Bank Investment Management
AS OF 22 MAY 2020
10.21m 2.99%
Legal & General Investment Management Ltd.
AS OF 01 OCT 2021
8.01m 2.34%
BennBridge Ltd.
AS OF 01 OCT 2021
6.36m 1.86%
HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Ltd.
AS OF 01 OCT 2021
5.35m 1.57%
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kind-investors-own-most-cineworld-091007372.html
Cineworld Group already has institutions on the share registry. Indeed, they own a respectable stake in the company. This suggests some credibility amongst professional investors.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/no-time-to-die-box-office-cinema-analyst-stocks-earnings-1235029493/
“Hungry Moviegoing Audience”: Cinema Analyst Boosts Earnings, Stock Targets After ‘No Time to Die’ Launch
B. Riley's Eric Wold sees "a faster return to normal, as long as the studios continue to play ball."
“James Bond delivers to a hungry moviegoing audience,” B. Riley Financial’s Eric Wold wrote in a Monday report, in which he increased his stock price targets on key exhibitors and his earnings estimates for the second half of 2021.
“The Pandemic was ‘No Time to Die’ for Moviegoing,” he highlighted in the title of the report. “The underlying moviegoing demand levels (whether viewed as pent-up or getting back to normal) are clear with the global opening weekend results for both Venom 2 and No Time To Die — solid IP franchises with exclusive theatrical windows in place,” Wold wrote in the report.
Motley fool are .... fools! There is a recent article about the possibilty of cineworld shares doubling but that hasnt been shared. I dont mind negativity but when people put their own spin on a positive story for their own reasons then it becomes dodgy. Bond movie was ultra long and it brought out the over 35s into the cinema. Many international markets held well or even increased. That bodes very well. The old chestnut about debt seems scary until you consider the close to 1 billion yearly EBIDTA that cineworld produced pre pandemic. Also! Around half of shares are held by institutions which is positive in my book and tells its own story.