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Cineworld’s stock plummeted 36% Tuesday afternoon to an all-time low after the corporate stated it had filed a plan to reorganize its enterprise and shareholders wouldn’t get well any of their funds.

The embattled proprietor of Regal Cinemas stated it had submitted a last model of the plan to a US chapter court docket in Texas. It first announced details of the proposal on April 3.

The corporate stated already again in February that it anticipated shareholders to be wiped out entirely by the chapter course of, even when it bought a few of its companies.

“The proposed restructuring doesn’t present for any restoration for holders of Cineworld’s present fairness pursuits,” the corporate confirmed in a press release Tuesday.

Below the plan, Cineworld’s lenders will cut its debt by $4.5 billion in trade for fairness within the reorganized firm.

Sophie Lund-Yates, lead fairness analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, described the market response to Cineworld’s announcement Tuesday as “extreme.”

Affirmation of the plan had “extinguished any remaining hope from shareholders that this route may very well be averted,” she instructed CNN.

Like lots of its opponents, the world’s second-biggest movie show operator was hit laborious by the pandemic, reporting a mixed lack of $3.3 billion over 2020 and 2021. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US in September.

Cineworld shares have misplaced 98% of their worth for the reason that firm listed on the London Inventory Change in 2007. They have been final buying and selling at 1.1 pence (1.4 cents).

The inventory closed 33% decrease on April 3 after the corporate introduced its reorganization plan and stated it will halt all efforts to promote its US, UK and Irish companies.

Tuesday’s inventory declines got here as “remaining fairness holders rushed to promote their shares in an try and recoup one thing,” Victoria Scholar, head of funding at Interactive Investor, an internet buying and selling platform, instructed CNN.

Cineworld reiterated that it hoped the restructuring plan — which the court docket and a few of the firm’s collectors have but to approve — would assist it emerge from Chapter 11 chapter within the first half of this yr. Within the meantime, Cineworld stated, its film theaters will proceed to function “as common with out interruption.”