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Deltalo, if the company loses the appeal, where is the £700m fine going to come from? Any placing would have to be at a discount to 30p. You're talking nearly 3bn additional shares to raise that kind of money. The share price would crash below 10p.

The danger is people actually listen to your ramping nonsense and put their own money into it based on your codswallop. Then they end up losing the lot if the company loses the appeal and ends up in administration. The risks are sky high here, a point you blissfully forgot to mention in your rampfest.

RS, your dreams of this going back to pre covid highs are just that - dreams. It's never going to happen. McColls shareholders were spouting similar pie in the sky nonsense, only for the company to go bust.

Shareholders are under water, the company is up to it's eyeballs in debt and the boss continues to put himself first...

Cineworld's boss saw his pay nearly double in 2021 despite the cinema chain suffering another difficult year as it struggled to recover from Covid-19.

Mooky Greidinger raked in nearly £1.48m, up from £830,000 in 2020.

The figure was boosted by a hefty £646,000 bonus, which the 69-year old received despite the company posting a pre-tax loss of around £542m as its cinemas remained closed for part of the year due to lockdown restrictions.

He wasn't the only family member seeing his pay surge as Israel Greidinger, Cineworld's deputy chief executive and Mooky's brother, received £1.21m last year compared with £689,000 in 2020 after pocketing a £518,000 bonus.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-10696907/Blockbuster-bonuses-Cineworld-boss-Mooky-Greidinger.html

If the company loses the appeal and ends up in administration, the bottom will be 0p. Until then I think this will continue to drift southwards - sub 20p could be seen imminently imho.

RS, what Cineworld did prior to covid is now irrelevant. It will never be back at those levels. And regards profit, it made a paltry £18m which is a drop in the ocean compared to the company's debt mountain. PS your post on RR is also being pulled apart - it appears you got your numbers wrong. Again.

Yes but debt is TEN TIMES market cap (you know, just to put it into perspective)

Sales of fags and booze is booming. Rising inflation does nothing to curb the buying habits of smokers and drinkers. Plus there's a world cup this year which will see sales of booze rocket.
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12098/12354033/world-cup-2022-dates-draw-schedule-kick-off-times-final-for-qatar-tournament

A few good films isn't going to help the share price. Mounting debt, the court case and rising inflation will most likely continue to push the share price lower for the foreseeable future. The market is anticipating the worst - that the company is most likely to lose the appeal. And where's the money going to come from? Answer = placings/shareholder dilution. If they lose the appeal, how much longer can the company hang on given the massive debt?

Rolls will be one of the big winners once the travel sector is back to full strength. And there's no shortage of people wanting to jet away on holiday, demand is stronger than ever. These prices won't be around forever, I think airline stocks will be a lot higher by summer and autumn.

I recall saying some months ago the most likely outcome would be McColls would end up in administration and circling vultures would then swoop and buy the assets at a knockdown price. I said back then that shareholders in that situation would be left with nothing. At the time I was attacked for voicing this opinion by holders who didn't want to hear it. As it turns out, the ones who cost others the most money wasn't the so-called "trolls" it was the rampers with their predictions of 2p close and 10p by next week. I hope most had the sense to sell yesterday while you still could. Sometimes it's best to steer clear of the stupidly high risk opportunities and settle for more mediocre returns which don't put your capital at risk of wipeout.

I hope the majority of holders managed to get out while they still could? So much ramping going on earlier today, I hope not too many were suckered in by talk of 10p next week etc?

McColls is on its knees that's why Morrison's have left it til the last minute to make a move - so any rescue deal will be extremely favourable for Morrison's (but far less so for McColls shareholders). McColls will accept virtually any deal offered to them because they're desperate - unfortunately that means they have no bargaining power and have to take pretty much whatever is offered to them, hence don't expect a big share price increase if a deal is done.

"People familiar with the rescue proposal said it would be structured as a solvent deal rather than pre-pack administration, though it would not involve any meaningful value being attributed to McColl's London-listed shares"

https://news.sky.com/story/morrisons-pitches-last-ditch-rescue-deal-for-ailing-convenience-retailer-mccolls-12606452

..Cineworld looks to further delay payments to former Regal shareholders. Not great is it?

Cineworld took on a huge debt as part of the $3.6 billion Regal deal. Its net debt stood at $8.9 billion at the end of December.

Refinitiv data showed its credit score had sunk to 1, the lowest on a scale of up to 100, meaning it was highly likely to default in the next year.

The company is also involved in a long-drawn dispute over a botched deal with Canada's Cineplex, which could result in damages of up to C$1.23 billion ($958.99 million).

Placings and dilution is almost certainly on the way, the share price heading much lower

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cineworld-looks-further-delay-payments-064621317.html

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-10770343/Giant-robot-warehouse-centre-THG-bosss-14bn-expansion-plan.html

There's a different feel to this now, the share price no longer feels weighted down - I would say the R&M overhang has either cleared, or is very close to clearing. My guess is we'll see daily gains here until the share price is back in the 30s, possibly low 40s. I don't think we'll see 20p again - this rise looks more than just a temporary blip to me.

Demand for bookings in the travel sector is sky high - the issue is staff shortages following covid, particularly pilots, hence flights having to be cancelled. Rising inflation won't stop people going abroad, the demand is stronger than ever - for obvious reasons; travellers lost two years of their lives during lockdowns and are determined to get away no matter what. The airlines will do well once they get vacancies filled, and Rolls will ultimately benefit from that as the year goes on. This should comfortably be back over £1 very soon.

In my opinion, there remains a stock overhang to clear from the R&M sale which took place late February. It was a forced sale and involved millions of shares, which will have taken many weeks, possibly months to clear due to the size of the sale. The share price fell soon after the R&M RNS late February and it's stayed on the floor eversince. There is almost certainly a stock overhang from that sale left to clear. It would explain the share price action over the last two months - it's absolutely what you'd expect to see if there was a stock overhang (millions of ii shares being sold into the market over a prolonged period of time). If I'm right, at some point soon the overhang will clear and the sp will rocket back into the 30s, possibly low 40s. Depressed share price over a prolonged period of time immediately following news an ii is having to offload millions of shares = classic sign there's a stock overhang.

"No the markets are Lazer focused on profit"

That's not actually true at all

In its 22 years of existence, Ocado has turned a pre-tax profit just three times with the last occurrence in 2016, a year before it struck its first international deal with Groupe Casino.

Ocado has a market cap of £7.20 billion!