Back to the deep value restaurant thing, it looks like Darden Restaurants is getting ready to sell more shares to raise cash instead of going into more debt. They should be fine, but some quick math made it look to me like what appeared to be a possible double on the eventual rebound is most likely going to be a 30 to 40 percent gain that may take a while to play out. At least it doesn't appear that they will be diluting the shares enough to totally tank the price. I bought in cheap enough that it's not going to hurt and my position in Darden is small. But those who bought into some of these at levels before the crash are probably cringing pretty hard right now.
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