RE: Picturehouse founder screens deal to buy chain from ailing Cineworld8 Mar 2023 11:18
CINE holders think someone will come in and buy the company with huge debt and give them money on top for the shares. For those unaware, currently CINE's income isn't covering it's expenses; deficit is absolutely huge, and only way it keeps going is by not paying the debt holders which obviously increase each day passing by. As far as I'm aware, CINE have been negotiating with one party on another for ages to get itself out of a hole which is getting deeper and deeper. CINE's demise is a certainty and it's not that far away. CINE is dead but just not absolutely broke yet thanks to it's creditors who fear they'll get less if it is allowed to go bankrupt. If a buyer came forward where the lenders can recover sizeable proportion of their debt, then they'll force company's arm to sell it. IF and when this does happen, shareholders will not feature anywhere at all in the decision making. Lenders will take the hair cut but shareholders will be shaven clean right down to the scalp.