AMC Stock: 3 Reasons to Stay Away Despite Recent 9% Uptick

InvestorPlace2021-04-20

Management will ask stockholders to greenlight the issue of 500 million new shares in early May. There is never a dull moment when tracking meme stocks. And now one of the most prominent ones,AMC(...

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moJoe
2021-04-22
moJoe
This will be next in line after gamestop ?. This is one of the most heavily shorted stock by hedge fxcks. A lot of volumes gone to this stock but still stuck at below 10. Hedge funds trying to manipulate market. Also try looking @ sundial always no1 on volumes and its on negatives most days. Try figuring that out. Even goods news it stays on red..
YumeOuji
2021-04-21
YumeOuji
Boring article
李育儒
2021-04-20
李育儒
??
- 浮沫飞尘:
  这篇文章的立场是不应该买 $AMC院线(AMC)$ ，你的立场也改变了么？
BlackJesus
2021-04-20
BlackJesus
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA IM AMUSED BY THESE ARTICLES. Good try lol
Meiw
2021-04-20
Meiw
What are they doing with the shares?
102179871Q
2021-04-20
102179871Q
Now is it worth to buy?

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It’s a clear red flag for AMC stock investors that are looking for management to take more of a proactive approach with this crisis.\nEvolution Has Just Passed You By\nEven if AMC survives this crisis — which by most measures it should — it still operates a largely outdated business model.\nStreaming is all the rage these days.Netflix(NASDAQ:NFLX),Amazon(NASDAQ:AMZN),Disney(NYSE:DIS) andAT&T(NYSE:T) are firmly entrenched in the streaming wars, pouring billions into original content. As of Q4 2020, Netflix is in first place withover 200 million paid subscribersworldwide, but others are catching up as well and using some pretty innovative techniques.\nLate last year, Warner Bros. announced it woulddebut all of its 2021 movies in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneouslyin the United States. 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These areas will be the biggest source of future growth and profitability moving forward.\nBasically, the credits are beginning to roll for AMC.","kind":null,"is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":true,"is_publish_live":null,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[{"id":378521350,"gmtCreate":1619051523670,"gmtModify":1704718803977,"author":{"id":"3576336077780129","authorId":"3576336077780129","name":"moJoe","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/51b5f1e98cb521c4bd52447b0ea6e905","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"This will be next in line after gamestop ?.&nbsp; This is one of the most heavily shorted stock by hedge fxcks. A lot of volumes gone to this stock but still stuck at below 10. Hedge funds trying to manipulate market. Also try looking @ sundial always no1 on volumes and its on negatives most days. Try figuring that out. 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Good try lol","listText":"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA IM AMUSED BY THESE ARTICLES. Good try lol","text":"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA IM AMUSED BY THESE ARTICLES. Good try lol","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/371311400","repostId":1125387983,"repostType":2,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":371391428,"gmtCreate":1618908356764,"gmtModify":1704716694868,"author":{"id":"3571454418159222","authorId":"3571454418159222","name":"Meiw","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"What are they doing with the shares?","listText":"What are they doing with the shares?","text":"What are they doing with the shares?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/371391428","repostId":1125387983,"repostType":2,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":371074268,"gmtCreate":1618897370654,"gmtModify":1704716534182,"author":{"id":"3581743025693862","authorId":"3581743025693862","name":"102179871Q","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"Now is it worth to buy?","listText":"Now is it worth to buy?","text":"Now is it worth to buy?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/371074268","repostId":1125387983,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":25,"commentSize":11,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.24.2","shortVersion":"4.24.2","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1125387983"}