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Domino’s Pizza Enterprises has lodged an appeal against the Federal Court judgment and orders in the Gall class action, keeping the company’s potential financial exposure unresolved. Cost orders have been stayed while the appeal proceeds, but no hearing date has been set.

Jatcorp’s revenue rose 23% to $38.9 million in FY2026, but weaker margins, negative operating cash flow and a material going-concern uncertainty leave the nutritional products maker’s recovery unfinished. The company ended the year with $5.6 million in cash after a $4.2 million entitlement offer, while Neurio trademark litigation in China remains unresolved.

European Lithium has completed the shareholder and optionholder meetings on Critical Metals Corp.’s proposed acquisition, but the verified poll results were not included in the announcement. Proxy votes showed overwhelming support for both schemes, leaving Court approval and final conditions as the next hurdles.

Phoslock Environmental Technologies Limited (ASX:PET) reduced its September-quarter operating cash outflow to A$21,000 as sales receipts more than doubled from the previous quarter. The company has paused manufacturing in China after storage capacity was reached, while new lanthanum formulations and a first Phoslock 10 field trial move forward.

CSL has been named as the defendant in a group proceeding filed in the Supreme Court of Victoria, covering investors who acquired certain securities between February 2025 and May 2026. The company denies liability and says it will vigorously defend allegations involving continuous disclosure and FY26 performance statements.

MEC Resources ended the September quarter with $1.275 million in cash and reported an estimated 11.9 quarters of funding at its current operating cash burn. But its key Advent Energy investment faces a live Federal Court appeal over PEP11, while an onshore subsidiary holding the Weaber Gas Field remains in voluntary administration.

Nick Scali expects first-half FY27 underlying net profit of $28 million to $32 million after a sharp slowdown in Australia and New Zealand. The UK business is growing strongly, but ANZ revenue is forecast to fall 11% to 14% and the company has booked almost $1 million in cyber incident costs.

EQT Holdings delivered strong growth from its continuing businesses in FY26, but a superannuation exit, litigation and takeover uncertainty left group profit and dividends lower. The company says discussions with BGH Capital and TPG Global remain open, while targeting completion of the superannuation exit by the end of 2027.

Sarytogan Graphite’s upstream DFS supports a 50,000-tonne-a-year Kazakhstan graphite operation with a pre-tax NPV8 of US$132.7 million, but the company remains unfunded and without binding offtake. Trading in its shares has also been suspended while it seeks Western Australian court orders over an inadvertently unlodged options prospectus.

BSA has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Eonetics, bringing tethered-drone communications technology into its national infrastructure services business. The transaction remains conditional on due diligence, regulatory clearance and shareholder approval.

Evergold Minerals will acquire the Rabbit Warren tenements near Leonora for $50,000 cash and $150,000 in shares, gaining access to a historic gold discovery with an untested 1982 intercept of 3 metres at 23 g/t. The opportunity is inexpensive, but the geological evidence remains largely historical and unverified.

BPH Energy’s latest quarter puts its portfolio risks in sharp relief: Advent is appealing the PEP11 ruling while another subsidiary remains in voluntary administration. BPH ended September with $1.127 million in cash, but deployed $972,000 in loans to investees during the quarter.