I bought AMC this July for 11$ a share. It tanked and I still held on to it. Is it time to sell or should I wait?

My AMC shares are unfortunately down 96% and due to all the APE conversions, I only have 17 shares (although I'm pretty sure I used to have hundreds before the splits and conversions). My total investment was $3,100 2 years ago and today it's worth $118. Any recommendations on whether I should just keep holding onto the shares or sell them for tax loss harvesting purposes? Any insights would be helpful!

What are you expecting in GME, AMC ( or all kind of hyped up stocks) that are missing from stocks like google, NVDA or even some boring but undervalued such as UNH or UPS?

You think GME , AMC or OPEN gonna beat them in long run?

I saw few post last week some people “investing” in these companies on automatic such as weekly or monthly.

Edit 1:- all GME holder making theories in comments like their balance sheet will “this that”but still, you really think GME will beat Google in 5 or 10 years in returns?

I just found out that if I am an AMC stock holder I get double points when using their app as an A List Member…and I thought it would be funny to get one share considering it’s only trading at around $5.

However now I’ve gone down a rabbit hole and I’m wondering if I should pick up a few shares just in case or if anyone should. Not a bunch just a few grand.

I think movie theaters serve a function and having an air conditioned space where you can go has always made sense to me. It’s a relatively safe family environment and it’s good for people with kids. families spend money on their kids like single people spend money on their dogs or cats.

But I think I’m bias and AMC is doomed but I want to believe it’s not. My question is more about how people here feel about AMC and the debate of will movie theaters always exist. Are there any futurists that have a prediction and what is that prediction. No wrong answers. Ultimately, if theatres will in fact exist then will AMC stock be worth anything.

Someone talk some sense into me. I not a heavy trader, I just put a couple hundred every paycheck in my Roth IRA, and into SWPXX or DIA. Are movie theaters dead forever? Will they not be around in 10 years. When I saw the price for AMC this week I felt compelled to buy. Not sure if it was nostalgia from growing up in the 90s or stupidity. I feel movie theater stock has to start to trend back up and theaters in general become an American staple again. What are y’all’s thoughts, obviously it’s come down from $400 for reasons I don’t know, but I can’t help but think it’s a good long term buy. 🤷‍♂️

Serious questions for all the people buying/holding AMC stock… Why?

Don’t they have a 5 Billion dollar debt? I also read that the interest on some of those loans are averaging 9-12% annual interest.

I don’t even want to talk about their CEO. So I see so much copium in the AMC sub it’s wild, I don’t understand what they are thinking.

I know it was a meme stock a few years ago, but it’s down a ridiculous amount. I’m very new to value investing and looking at financials so I was hoping someone could share their thoughts with me. I used a valuation calculator and it thought it was ~85% undervalued ($3.28 rn, intrinsic value around $18). Im guessing for a long term investment this is not be the best choice, but do you think it might reach its value in the next 3-5 years? Thank you!

AMC Networks does not only sound like that famous meme-stock, but it is a great business on paper - it created or distributed some of the best TV series of all time: Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Walking Dead and countless spinoffs, Hell on Wheels, Halt and Catch Fire, Better Call Saul, Interview with the Vampire, Silo (for Apple TV) and Pantheon among others. It owns five television channels, including AMC, BBC America, IFC and Sundance TV. It has its own streaming service (actually nine, but who's counting).

At the same time its share price went from ATH of around 80 USD to the current price of around 8 USD, a 90% drop. The market cap is a tiny 340M USD, which is peanuts for any big player like NFLX, AAPL, AMZN, or even WBD or the new kid on the block PSKY, who just bid for WBD.

So, the question is why there's no bidding activity for them? Are the vultures just waiting for it to go belly up and buy the assets on the cheap? Do the owners think that they will turn the business around, and the current price (or even a 3x price) doesn't reflect the true value of the enterprise?

Edit: Added Silo and Pantheon as shows produced by AMCX

They way I see it, is it's only a matter of time before movie theaters open back up again fully, and we're pumping out massive blockbusters every year again.

In 2016, AMC stock price was hovering around $30.00, now it's around 4.00 last I checked. Seems like a great time to buy, especially as their main competitor, Cineworld, shuddered their US locations.

Of course this could also be the tipping point where we stop going to movie theaters entirely and begin to shift new releases to at home streaming, which wouldn't bode too well for AMC I imagine.

Do you guys think it's a safe buy and hold?

EDIT: Well this post aged well haha. And to answer yall, NO, I didn’t buy AMC stock because I listened to everyone who told me not to like a fucking idiot. I should’ve, but I didn’t. Oh well. I can rest easy knowing that someone probably did after reading this post and has made a bit of money.

Back in september of 2023 i bought 10k worth of amc at $8, it went up $11 in november then went crashing down to $2 and now im back to even point . I had accepted my loss and said ill never gamblr again. Its like god gave me a chance now to eithrer give it a 2nd chance or cash out

I want to ask you guys, do you beleive in this squeeze?

After being brutally downvoted on this . . .

. . . I thought, "yeah, that's interesting".

So, let's see what's under the hood, and why I'm seeing a spike in call volume on Friday along with increased chatter to go along with it. Here's the quick stats:

Market Cap: $1.33 billion
Net Income: -$363 million
Profit Margin: -7.39%
Debt: $8.27 billion with $423.7 million in cash

Right up front, the most interesting thing happening with this stock right now, is that 80% of the float is being traded on the dark pool.

The company is operating at a significant loss, which definitely justifies the 10.12% short float (28.53% dark pool short ratio). There's not really much of a question as to whether or not this is a shitty company with a shitty leadership, releasing shitty numbers. On that point, I think that both bulls and bears would wholly agree. As of today, right now, the fundamentals are decisively bearish.

(And by that, I mean that there seems to be unlimited material to work with, in order to make a bearish argument . . . based on the current figures.)

To make matters worse, the main product that they're selling . . . is movies. And if you're like me, you understand that for the last several years, the movie industry has been releasing very little worth watching anymore. It's mostly garbage now. And if I had to put my finger on what, exactly, it was, that caused the entire entertainment industry as a whole to take a nose-dive . . . I'd say that it's the insertion of politics into the very things that we go to in order to escape politics in the first place. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but that seems to be the general consensus when you ask around. It's super annoying and definitely not worth paying for.

This divergence between bearish fundamentals, price action and short volume . . . and the contrarian spike in call volume on Friday . . . has received some attention. Here's an example of that, where you can listen to some confused analysts talking about it. Ultimately though, this means that bullish sentiment is speculative.

Where does this speculation come from? Why is it happening? This post will be an attempt to explain it away. There has to be an explanation for it, after all. As a chartist, of course, I'll start with the technicals.

The weekly chart (non-logarithmic) shows wedging with an an established bottom, first tested 18 months ago and was tested and held once again on Friday, closing at 2.59. As far as technicals go, it's moments like these when you can expect a strong move in either direction. Accompanying this, is increasing volume over the last 2 months. Mind you, for those of you who see technicals as "astrology", these points are no less factual than fundamental data. For the last 18 months, the price has held here. The "astrology" comes into play when we start looking at indicators and coming up with different opinions on them - so, I left that out, just for you.

My theory on the technicals, is that this long-term support has less to do with retail investors seeing a "good deal", and more to do with institutional short-covering. At this price, and as it moves closer to zero, the downside potential simply shrank. And I really have to hand it to those MMs; they definitely know how to gracefully and quietly exit short positions in the penny stock world. (And that might have something to do with 80% of the float being traded on the dark pool right now.)

Moving on to recent happenings that might help to explain away some of the speculation and serve to make bullish arguments at this point in the price action:

1. AMC remains the largest theatrical-exhibition company in the U.S., and #2 in the world. It was the largest in the world until Cineworld Group (UK) received bankruptcy restructuring (a discussion point suggesting that it might have more to do with the movies themselves, than with the businesses). This means that by sheer size and scope, any blockbuster hit will cause AMC to benefit disproportionately, and thus, can serve as a catalyst in of itself.

2. AMC has invested in upgrades, such as IMAX, improved seating, expanded concession options, setting them radically apart from basic theaters, increasing any potential disproportionate benefit to showing a movie that's actually good.

3. There's been some reported debt refinancing and burden reduction. And, in the comments section of that aforementioned . . . YouTube analysis . . . a commenter put the debt burden into perspective: "macdonalds is 58 to 60 billion in debt AMC 4billion go figure".

4. November 5th (this coming Wednesday) is the next earnings report. For perspective, Q2 revenue increased to $1.4 billion from $1.03 billion a year prior. Annual revenue (TTM) is now at $4.92 billion - up 9.4% year over year. EPS is still negative, but losses have been shrinking in some recent quarters. That's the backdrop to this incoming earnings report.

I think that the combination between recently improved (albeit marginally) fundamentals, combined with the incoming earnings report and the technical bottom + wedge, does do well to explain this sudden optimism that otherwise seems to have come out of nowhere. Thoughts? Ideas? Comments?

AMC’s Q2 2025 earnings came in stronger than expected and show signs of a real turnaround.

• Revenue climbed 36% year-over-year to $1.4B (AMC Entertainment Holdings)

• Adjusted EBITDA hit $189M, nearly 4× last year

• Free cash flow swung positive to $88.9M

• Attendance grew 26% to 62.8M guests

• Record per-guest spending of $22.26 (tickets + concessions)

• Premium formats like IMAX and Dolby filled theaters almost 3× faster than standard auditoriums

• Debt progress: added $244M cash and pushed out 2026 maturities

The big catalyst is that Wedbush just upgraded AMC to “Outperform” with a $4 price target, its first Buy rating on AMC since 2020 (Barron’s / MarketWatch).

AMC’s management also said they believe current cash and operations are enough to cover the next 12 months.

Discussion:
Is this finally AMC shifting from meme stock to legitimate turnaround play?

Here is my latest analysis of AMC stock in TalkMarkets:

https://talkmarkets.com/content/services/amc-entertainment-stock-could-double-from-here?post=499635

Let me know what you think

Thinking about starting a position here, but wanted to get opinions from some fellow regards. Per the chart and latest trends, it appears AMC might be a good buy or it’s going to $0. I know this was once a coveted meme stock and its fall from glory has been exquisite, but it seems like there might be an opportunity for some huge upside potential. From what I can tell their market cap is around $875m which is near as low as it has ever been. However, the business seems to be doing decent and has a loyal customer and investor base. Now my only concern is that they will just torch this thing to $0 because they can. It has also been going down nonstop without any green days which seems extremely odd.

Anyone think it is almost time to start a position here for some upside? This thing has taken a beating and I do not see why it can’t recuperate some. I know the debt load is large, but feel the stock is undervalued.

Thank you for your time.

If I bought 100 shares of amc at the current price, my $180 avg drops to $80 avg. Seems good to me no?