RE: Cineworld’s principal US landlord comments18 Aug 2022 02:19
It still baffles me how CINE is actively trying to tank the SP of its own stock.
Both their silence and when the release RNS, It is like they are intentionally sending down signals.
There was no trading update, no rns, from mid may up to late july when admissions have risen to near 2019 levels. EMAN, AMC, even VUE set upbeat messages to shareholders to calm them down. Cine was completely silent.
End of june shareholders were expecting rns on covenant test, they refused to send any update. They delayed reporting earnings from aug to sept. They refused to give update on regal dissenting shareholders even if payment is already on an escrow.
They waited for admissions to drop and lineup to thin down before deciding to say "admissions are down and cinema lineup is thin".
And then they spun this RNS into the most scary and ambiguous way they can make it. If they will dilute. Why not dilute at 120p, 60p, or even 30p? Why drop the SP TO 8P THEN DILUTE?
It is as if they are working against shareholders' value and towards a different purpose.
I am down neck deep but i am not worried. I was down more in gamestop and came out with ahead. I will decide next week if my thesis has changed.
For now ** grabs popcorn.