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MMs and hedge funds drop it to where they want it even on good earnings and news, it'sbeen a play for the big boys, but not anymore, Motley Fool you you are very one sided and don't care about your one sided story lines

Why AMC's Bull-Versus-Bear Battle Is One to Avoid

2022-05-18

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AMC Entertainment Is Still Not a Buy Despite Improved Earnings

2022-04-19

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AMC’s Newest Theatre Acquisitions Won’t Turn Analysts Bullish

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The Leawood, Kansas-based company that operates the world’s biggest chain of movie theaters reported a rare earnings beat on May 9, but even that hasn’t helped AMC stock, which continues to slide lower.Now down 70% in the past six months at just $12, AMC stock is a long way from its peak last year when the price stood at $72.62. And while the comedown since last fall has been hard, the irony is that a majority of analysts still feel AMC stock is overvalued at current levels.After the just announced earnings beat, analysts at research firm MKM Partners cut their rating on AMC shares to “sell” and placed a 12-month price target on the stock of $1.AMC Stock Saw Improving ResultsFor this year’s first quarter, AMC Entertainment reported a net loss of $337.4 million, or a loss of 65 cents per share. That was an improvement over the loss of $567.2 million, or a loss of $1.42 per share, recorded a year earlier.Excluding one-time items, AMC’s Q1 loss amounted to a loss of 52 cents per share, which was less than the loss of 63 cents forecast by Wall Street analysts. Revenue in the quarter came in at $785.7 million, which was 430% higher than $148.3 million generated in the year-earlier period and better than the $743 million analysts expected. The company finished the quarter with $1.3 billion of cash on hand.The improved results come as moviegoers return to theaters for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began. AMC said nearly 40 million people visited its theaters during the first quarter to see hit films such as The BatmanandSonic The Hedgehog 2.The debut of new Marvel movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which earned a global haul of $450 million during its opening weekend, should help drive traffic and sales at AMC’s more than 10,500 movie screens around the world. There are also several highly anticipated movies coming to the big screens is summer, including Top Gun: Maverick, Thor: Love and ThunderandMinions: The Rise of Gru.The Long Road Back for AMCIt’s been a tough recovery for AMC Entertainment, which had all of its movie theaters shut down in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. It was then forced to operate throughout 2021 with limited capacities and other restrictions.On top of that, several big movies such had their release dates shelved during the pandemic, while other films bypassed theaters altogether and went directly to streaming platforms. Only now is AMC starting to recover and able to operate at full capacity, showing blockbuster movies that attract big audiences for several weeks at a time.Yet the company’s earning show AMC is not completely out of the woods. Despite its revenue increasing 430% in this year’s first quarter, the company’s spending during the period outpaced those sales, leading to a loss.AMC said it spent nearly $1 billion in Q1 on operating expenses and rent across its movie theater chains in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Plus, several of the initiatives the company launched during the pandemic, such as plans to sell its popcorn in convenience stores and at other retail outlets, didn’t pan out as hoped.Add to this continued negative sentiment on the part of analysts, and it’s easy to see AMC is having trouble escaping its reputation as a meme stock.Don’t Buy AMC StockAmong six analysts that continue to cover AMC Entertainment, the median price target on the stock is currently $5, suggesting the share price has another 58% to fall from current levels. As mentioned, MKM Partners expects AMC stock to drop to $1.While attendance at its movie theaters is improving, AMC has a long way to go to get back to where it was pre-pandemic. And the stock continues to be viewed as overvalued despite having fallen 70% since last fall. 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The meme-friendly theatre chain acquired the theatres from <b>Bow Tie Cinemas</b>. AMC stock gained 6% on the news.</p><p>While the stock got a one-day boost from the news, the acquisition of these theatres will not turn analysts bullish on the company’s prospects. Of the eight covering AMC stock, three rate it a hold and five think it’s an outright sell with a median target price of $6, 65% below where it’s currently trading.</p><p>Analysts don’t like AMC. Investors shouldn’t either. Here’s why.</p><p>Ever the promotor, CEO Adam Aron was raving about the impact these seven theatres would make on its business and growth strategy.</p><p>“Our theatre acquisition strategy makes AMC a better and stronger company as we move forward on our glide path to recovery. Acquiring these locations is especially notable for our expansion in Connecticut, where we are more than doubling our presence,” Aron stated in the press release.</p><p>There’s no question moviegoers in Connecticut will benefit from an expanded AMC presence in the state, but that doesn’t mean shareholders should be thrilled with these purchases. Instead, it adds to the company’s significant debt.</p><p>The company’s most recent significant acquisition was Nordic Cinema Group in March 2017. It paid$964 million, including the assumption of $312.5 million of the Scandinavian company’s debt. That acquisition also included a 50% investment in another theatre chain with 50 theatres and 201 screens. That acquisition at the time had AMC operating 1,000 theatres worldwide.</p><p>Sure, covid-19 has definitely led to AMC shuttering some theaters, but an acquisition of seven versus approximately 93 just five years ago says a lot about how much the pandemic has drastically altered their capacity.</p><p>However, a big deal is that AMC already has plenty of movie theatres in both the U.S. and elsewhere. So it needs additional revenue streams, and I’m not talking about mining revenue.</p><p>I often make light of analyst stock ratings and target price projections in my commentaries. The reality, however, is that they spend significant hours creating financial models for the companies they cover, and more often than not, the earnings and revenue estimates are pretty darn close.</p><p>So, the fact that the highest target price for AMC stock is $6, $11.35 less than its current share price, says all you need to know about Wall Street’s view of the company.</p><p>Growing its footprint of theatres in the U.S. and elsewhere might appear to be a value-oriented proposition given how smaller theatre chains have suffered during covid-19. But it’s throwing good money after bad.</p><p>Adam Aron has to create new revenue streams that leverage its customer base. He doesn’t need more customers; he needs to make more money from his customers.</p><p>Analysts don’t see this happening. I second that opinion. Theatre acquisitions aren’t the solution. 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The meme-friendly theatre chain acquired the ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2022/04/amcs-newest-acquisitions-wont-turn-analysts-bullish-on-amc-stock/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2022/04/amcs-newest-acquisitions-wont-turn-analysts-bullish-on-amc-stock/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1140012986","content_text":"AMC Entertainment(NYSE:AMC) recently announced that it acquired seven locations with 66 screens in Connecticut, Upstate New York and Annapolis, Maryland. The meme-friendly theatre chain acquired the theatres from Bow Tie Cinemas. AMC stock gained 6% on the news.While the stock got a one-day boost from the news, the acquisition of these theatres will not turn analysts bullish on the company’s prospects. Of the eight covering AMC stock, three rate it a hold and five think it’s an outright sell with a median target price of $6, 65% below where it’s currently trading.Analysts don’t like AMC. Investors shouldn’t either. Here’s why.Ever the promotor, CEO Adam Aron was raving about the impact these seven theatres would make on its business and growth strategy.“Our theatre acquisition strategy makes AMC a better and stronger company as we move forward on our glide path to recovery. Acquiring these locations is especially notable for our expansion in Connecticut, where we are more than doubling our presence,” Aron stated in the press release.There’s no question moviegoers in Connecticut will benefit from an expanded AMC presence in the state, but that doesn’t mean shareholders should be thrilled with these purchases. Instead, it adds to the company’s significant debt.The company’s most recent significant acquisition was Nordic Cinema Group in March 2017. It paid$964 million, including the assumption of $312.5 million of the Scandinavian company’s debt. That acquisition also included a 50% investment in another theatre chain with 50 theatres and 201 screens. That acquisition at the time had AMC operating 1,000 theatres worldwide.Sure, covid-19 has definitely led to AMC shuttering some theaters, but an acquisition of seven versus approximately 93 just five years ago says a lot about how much the pandemic has drastically altered their capacity.However, a big deal is that AMC already has plenty of movie theatres in both the U.S. and elsewhere. So it needs additional revenue streams, and I’m not talking about mining revenue.I often make light of analyst stock ratings and target price projections in my commentaries. The reality, however, is that they spend significant hours creating financial models for the companies they cover, and more often than not, the earnings and revenue estimates are pretty darn close.So, the fact that the highest target price for AMC stock is $6, $11.35 less than its current share price, says all you need to know about Wall Street’s view of the company.Growing its footprint of theatres in the U.S. and elsewhere might appear to be a value-oriented proposition given how smaller theatre chains have suffered during covid-19. But it’s throwing good money after bad.Adam Aron has to create new revenue streams that leverage its customer base. He doesn’t need more customers; he needs to make more money from his customers.Analysts don’t see this happening. I second that opinion. Theatre acquisitions aren’t the solution. Not by a long shot.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":269,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9037216051,"gmtCreate":1648112442885,"gmtModify":1676534305721,"author":{"id":"3573518618619259","authorId":"3573518618619259","name":"Markh72","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/48640d619fbc005d12f6239d6a12b1aa","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3573518618619259","authorIdStr":"3573518618619259"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"MMs and hedge funds drop it to where they want it even on good earnings and news, it'sbeen a play for the big boys, but not anymore, Motley Fool you you are very one sided and don't care about your one sided story lines","listText":"MMs and hedge funds drop it to where they want it even on good earnings and news, it'sbeen a play for the big boys, but not anymore, Motley Fool you you are very one sided and don't care about your one sided story lines","text":"MMs and hedge funds drop it to where they want it even on good earnings and news, it'sbeen a play for the big boys, but not anymore, Motley Fool you you are very one sided and don't care about your one sided story lines","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9037216051","repostId":"2221446017","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2221446017","pubTimestamp":1648090481,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2221446017?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-03-24 10:54","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Why AMC's Bull-Versus-Bear Battle Is One to Avoid","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2221446017","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"AMC's stock is unpredictable in the short-term, but it seems like it can fight gravity for only so long.","content":"<html><head></head><body><p><b>KEY POINTS</b></p><ul><li>AMC is a meme stock with a lot of support from retail investors.</li><li>However, rising interest rates could make the market less friendly toward speculative stocks like AMC.</li><li>The company&#39;s recent investment into a struggling gold and silver miner is its latest red flag.</li></ul><p>Movie theater chain <b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b> has been one of the most exciting stocks on Wall Street after its emergence as a meme stock and immense support from retail investors. Meme stocks can be wildly unpredictable, sometimes making significant price moves on little to no news.</p><p>But stocks like AMC can be risky to try to trade around; shares have been down almost 40% since the beginning of the year. Before buying shares, banking on a rebound, consider these reasons to pass on AMC.</p><p><b>The market environment has changed</b></p><p>The market is much different than in 2021 when the meme craze occurred. The Federal Reserve System, which is the central bank of the United States, has begun to increase the federal funds rate, the interest rate that commercial banks borrow at, to combat the rampant inflation taking place.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e3ba266e84856e8b8469fe96d40a65f5\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/><span>Image Source: Getty Images.</span></p><p>Higher interest rates tend to pressure stock valuations, and investors can begin flocking to &#34;safety&#34; in profitable companies with sound business fundamentals. This risk-off market could be bad for meme stocks like AMC and could help explain the stock&#39;s fall since the beginning of the year.</p><p><b>Fundamentals remain weak</b></p><p>AMC was on the ropes during the pandemic when lockdowns virtually shut down its theaters and put the company in danger of bankruptcy. The strong support from retail investors played arguably the most prominent role in keeping the business open. The company raised funds through debt and equity raises to survive.</p><p>But now we are left with the aftermath, and there are serious concerns for the forward-looking investor. You can see in the chart below that AMC&#39;s enterprise value, which is the combined value of a stock&#39;s shares and debt (minus cash), is still higher than the years before COVID-19. In other words, the company&#39;s new debt and shares have inflated the stock&#39;s <i>total</i> valuation, despite the per-share price continuing to fall.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b4d972406c48a1847d0fa4c4669b03fb\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"433\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/><span>AMC enterprise value. Data by YCharts.</span></p><p>AMC isn&#39;t doing so well from an operating standpoint, either; the company burned more than $700 million in 2021. I should note that AMC also closed the year with almost $1.6 billion in cash, so it isn&#39;t likely to go out of business soon. However, the company will probably need to turn a profit to be a fruitful long-term holding for investors.</p><p>The last time AMC had positive free cash flow was in 2019, when it generated just $61 million from $5.4 billion in revenue. Put another way, the company wasn&#39;t developing a lot of cash profit even before the pandemic.</p><p><b>Questionable management moves</b></p><p>AMC recently announced that it made a $28 million investment into <b>Hycroft Mining</b>, a gold and silver mine in Nevada. The stake gives AMC 22% ownership, with management describing the investment as an opportunity to benefit from helping a distressed business, much like AMC was a year ago.</p><p>Hycroft Mining isn&#39;t in a position to generate meaningful short-term value for itself or AMC, having made layoffs after ceasing operations at its mine last November. On the one hand, the investment is a small fraction of AMC&#39;s balance sheet, which has up to $1.8 billion in liquidity if you include untapped credit lines.</p><p>However, it might be fairer to question what business AMC has allocating capital to speculative assets like this. It&#39;s utterly unrelated to its own business, making it hard to accept that AMC would even know how to value an asset like this, let alone invest in it. That money probably could have been better spent, considering the theater operator is still not operating at a high level. Perhaps AMC could have purchased a stake in a streaming company, or an entertainment studio -- anything related to its core competence!</p><p><b>Investor takeaway</b></p><p>The market doesn&#39;t seem as friendly to speculative investments anymore, and investors are putting more emphasis on fundamentals and profits than in 2021. AMC has been one of the faces of the meme stock craze, but it could get increasingly difficult to find support for a valuation that&#39;s still above when the company was much healthier.</p><p>Share prices are ultimately a function of supply and demand for a stock in the short term, but fundamentals often tell the long-term story. Given AMC&#39;s continued struggles and head-scratching decision to allocate precious capital to a risky, unrelated investment, it might be best to stay away from AMC until more smoke clears from around its business. Investors can always revisit the stock if the company can show steady improvement over future quarters.</p></body></html>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Why AMC's Bull-Versus-Bear Battle Is One to Avoid</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhy AMC's Bull-Versus-Bear Battle Is One to Avoid\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-03-24 10:54 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/23/why-amcs-bull-versus-bear-battle-is-one-to-avoid/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>KEY POINTSAMC is a meme stock with a lot of support from retail investors.However, rising interest rates could make the market less friendly toward speculative stocks like AMC.The company's recent ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/23/why-amcs-bull-versus-bear-battle-is-one-to-avoid/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/23/why-amcs-bull-versus-bear-battle-is-one-to-avoid/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2221446017","content_text":"KEY POINTSAMC is a meme stock with a lot of support from retail investors.However, rising interest rates could make the market less friendly toward speculative stocks like AMC.The company's recent investment into a struggling gold and silver miner is its latest red flag.Movie theater chain AMC Entertainment Holdings has been one of the most exciting stocks on Wall Street after its emergence as a meme stock and immense support from retail investors. Meme stocks can be wildly unpredictable, sometimes making significant price moves on little to no news.But stocks like AMC can be risky to try to trade around; shares have been down almost 40% since the beginning of the year. Before buying shares, banking on a rebound, consider these reasons to pass on AMC.The market environment has changedThe market is much different than in 2021 when the meme craze occurred. The Federal Reserve System, which is the central bank of the United States, has begun to increase the federal funds rate, the interest rate that commercial banks borrow at, to combat the rampant inflation taking place.Image Source: Getty Images.Higher interest rates tend to pressure stock valuations, and investors can begin flocking to \"safety\" in profitable companies with sound business fundamentals. This risk-off market could be bad for meme stocks like AMC and could help explain the stock's fall since the beginning of the year.Fundamentals remain weakAMC was on the ropes during the pandemic when lockdowns virtually shut down its theaters and put the company in danger of bankruptcy. The strong support from retail investors played arguably the most prominent role in keeping the business open. The company raised funds through debt and equity raises to survive.But now we are left with the aftermath, and there are serious concerns for the forward-looking investor. You can see in the chart below that AMC's enterprise value, which is the combined value of a stock's shares and debt (minus cash), is still higher than the years before COVID-19. In other words, the company's new debt and shares have inflated the stock's total valuation, despite the per-share price continuing to fall.AMC enterprise value. Data by YCharts.AMC isn't doing so well from an operating standpoint, either; the company burned more than $700 million in 2021. I should note that AMC also closed the year with almost $1.6 billion in cash, so it isn't likely to go out of business soon. However, the company will probably need to turn a profit to be a fruitful long-term holding for investors.The last time AMC had positive free cash flow was in 2019, when it generated just $61 million from $5.4 billion in revenue. Put another way, the company wasn't developing a lot of cash profit even before the pandemic.Questionable management movesAMC recently announced that it made a $28 million investment into Hycroft Mining, a gold and silver mine in Nevada. The stake gives AMC 22% ownership, with management describing the investment as an opportunity to benefit from helping a distressed business, much like AMC was a year ago.Hycroft Mining isn't in a position to generate meaningful short-term value for itself or AMC, having made layoffs after ceasing operations at its mine last November. On the one hand, the investment is a small fraction of AMC's balance sheet, which has up to $1.8 billion in liquidity if you include untapped credit lines.However, it might be fairer to question what business AMC has allocating capital to speculative assets like this. It's utterly unrelated to its own business, making it hard to accept that AMC would even know how to value an asset like this, let alone invest in it. That money probably could have been better spent, considering the theater operator is still not operating at a high level. Perhaps AMC could have purchased a stake in a streaming company, or an entertainment studio -- anything related to its core competence!Investor takeawayThe market doesn't seem as friendly to speculative investments anymore, and investors are putting more emphasis on fundamentals and profits than in 2021. AMC has been one of the faces of the meme stock craze, but it could get increasingly difficult to find support for a valuation that's still above when the company was much healthier.Share prices are ultimately a function of supply and demand for a stock in the short term, but fundamentals often tell the long-term story. Given AMC's continued struggles and head-scratching decision to allocate precious capital to a risky, unrelated investment, it might be best to stay away from AMC until more smoke clears from around its business. Investors can always revisit the stock if the company can show steady improvement over future quarters.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":684,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[{"author":{"id":"9000000000000665","authorId":"9000000000000665","name":"BurnellStella","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2c065267febaa7f90a2c347c9360e4b1","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"9000000000000665","authorIdStr":"9000000000000665"},"content":"What stocks are you investing in now?","text":"What stocks are you investing in now?","html":"What stocks are you investing in now?"}],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":9037216051,"gmtCreate":1648112442885,"gmtModify":1676534305721,"author":{"id":"3573518618619259","authorId":"3573518618619259","name":"Markh72","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/48640d619fbc005d12f6239d6a12b1aa","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3573518618619259","authorIdStr":"3573518618619259"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"MMs and hedge funds drop it to where they want it even on good earnings and news, it'sbeen a play for the big boys, but not anymore, Motley Fool you you are very one sided and don't care about your one sided story lines","listText":"MMs and hedge funds drop it to where they want it even on good earnings and news, it'sbeen a play for the big boys, but not anymore, Motley Fool you you are very one sided and don't care about your one sided story lines","text":"MMs and hedge funds drop it to where they want it even on good earnings and news, it'sbeen a play for the big boys, but not anymore, Motley Fool you you are very one sided and don't care about your one sided story lines","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9037216051","repostId":"2221446017","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2221446017","pubTimestamp":1648090481,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2221446017?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-03-24 10:54","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Why AMC's Bull-Versus-Bear Battle Is One to Avoid","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2221446017","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"AMC's stock is unpredictable in the short-term, but it seems like it can fight gravity for only so long.","content":"<html><head></head><body><p><b>KEY POINTS</b></p><ul><li>AMC is a meme stock with a lot of support from retail investors.</li><li>However, rising interest rates could make the market less friendly toward speculative stocks like AMC.</li><li>The company&#39;s recent investment into a struggling gold and silver miner is its latest red flag.</li></ul><p>Movie theater chain <b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b> has been one of the most exciting stocks on Wall Street after its emergence as a meme stock and immense support from retail investors. Meme stocks can be wildly unpredictable, sometimes making significant price moves on little to no news.</p><p>But stocks like AMC can be risky to try to trade around; shares have been down almost 40% since the beginning of the year. Before buying shares, banking on a rebound, consider these reasons to pass on AMC.</p><p><b>The market environment has changed</b></p><p>The market is much different than in 2021 when the meme craze occurred. The Federal Reserve System, which is the central bank of the United States, has begun to increase the federal funds rate, the interest rate that commercial banks borrow at, to combat the rampant inflation taking place.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e3ba266e84856e8b8469fe96d40a65f5\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/><span>Image Source: Getty Images.</span></p><p>Higher interest rates tend to pressure stock valuations, and investors can begin flocking to &#34;safety&#34; in profitable companies with sound business fundamentals. This risk-off market could be bad for meme stocks like AMC and could help explain the stock&#39;s fall since the beginning of the year.</p><p><b>Fundamentals remain weak</b></p><p>AMC was on the ropes during the pandemic when lockdowns virtually shut down its theaters and put the company in danger of bankruptcy. The strong support from retail investors played arguably the most prominent role in keeping the business open. The company raised funds through debt and equity raises to survive.</p><p>But now we are left with the aftermath, and there are serious concerns for the forward-looking investor. You can see in the chart below that AMC&#39;s enterprise value, which is the combined value of a stock&#39;s shares and debt (minus cash), is still higher than the years before COVID-19. In other words, the company&#39;s new debt and shares have inflated the stock&#39;s <i>total</i> valuation, despite the per-share price continuing to fall.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b4d972406c48a1847d0fa4c4669b03fb\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"433\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/><span>AMC enterprise value. Data by YCharts.</span></p><p>AMC isn&#39;t doing so well from an operating standpoint, either; the company burned more than $700 million in 2021. I should note that AMC also closed the year with almost $1.6 billion in cash, so it isn&#39;t likely to go out of business soon. However, the company will probably need to turn a profit to be a fruitful long-term holding for investors.</p><p>The last time AMC had positive free cash flow was in 2019, when it generated just $61 million from $5.4 billion in revenue. Put another way, the company wasn&#39;t developing a lot of cash profit even before the pandemic.</p><p><b>Questionable management moves</b></p><p>AMC recently announced that it made a $28 million investment into <b>Hycroft Mining</b>, a gold and silver mine in Nevada. The stake gives AMC 22% ownership, with management describing the investment as an opportunity to benefit from helping a distressed business, much like AMC was a year ago.</p><p>Hycroft Mining isn&#39;t in a position to generate meaningful short-term value for itself or AMC, having made layoffs after ceasing operations at its mine last November. On the one hand, the investment is a small fraction of AMC&#39;s balance sheet, which has up to $1.8 billion in liquidity if you include untapped credit lines.</p><p>However, it might be fairer to question what business AMC has allocating capital to speculative assets like this. It&#39;s utterly unrelated to its own business, making it hard to accept that AMC would even know how to value an asset like this, let alone invest in it. That money probably could have been better spent, considering the theater operator is still not operating at a high level. Perhaps AMC could have purchased a stake in a streaming company, or an entertainment studio -- anything related to its core competence!</p><p><b>Investor takeaway</b></p><p>The market doesn&#39;t seem as friendly to speculative investments anymore, and investors are putting more emphasis on fundamentals and profits than in 2021. AMC has been one of the faces of the meme stock craze, but it could get increasingly difficult to find support for a valuation that&#39;s still above when the company was much healthier.</p><p>Share prices are ultimately a function of supply and demand for a stock in the short term, but fundamentals often tell the long-term story. Given AMC&#39;s continued struggles and head-scratching decision to allocate precious capital to a risky, unrelated investment, it might be best to stay away from AMC until more smoke clears from around its business. Investors can always revisit the stock if the company can show steady improvement over future quarters.</p></body></html>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Why AMC's Bull-Versus-Bear Battle Is One to Avoid</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhy AMC's Bull-Versus-Bear Battle Is One to Avoid\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-03-24 10:54 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/23/why-amcs-bull-versus-bear-battle-is-one-to-avoid/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>KEY POINTSAMC is a meme stock with a lot of support from retail investors.However, rising interest rates could make the market less friendly toward speculative stocks like AMC.The company's recent ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/23/why-amcs-bull-versus-bear-battle-is-one-to-avoid/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/03/23/why-amcs-bull-versus-bear-battle-is-one-to-avoid/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2221446017","content_text":"KEY POINTSAMC is a meme stock with a lot of support from retail investors.However, rising interest rates could make the market less friendly toward speculative stocks like AMC.The company's recent investment into a struggling gold and silver miner is its latest red flag.Movie theater chain AMC Entertainment Holdings has been one of the most exciting stocks on Wall Street after its emergence as a meme stock and immense support from retail investors. Meme stocks can be wildly unpredictable, sometimes making significant price moves on little to no news.But stocks like AMC can be risky to try to trade around; shares have been down almost 40% since the beginning of the year. Before buying shares, banking on a rebound, consider these reasons to pass on AMC.The market environment has changedThe market is much different than in 2021 when the meme craze occurred. The Federal Reserve System, which is the central bank of the United States, has begun to increase the federal funds rate, the interest rate that commercial banks borrow at, to combat the rampant inflation taking place.Image Source: Getty Images.Higher interest rates tend to pressure stock valuations, and investors can begin flocking to \"safety\" in profitable companies with sound business fundamentals. This risk-off market could be bad for meme stocks like AMC and could help explain the stock's fall since the beginning of the year.Fundamentals remain weakAMC was on the ropes during the pandemic when lockdowns virtually shut down its theaters and put the company in danger of bankruptcy. The strong support from retail investors played arguably the most prominent role in keeping the business open. The company raised funds through debt and equity raises to survive.But now we are left with the aftermath, and there are serious concerns for the forward-looking investor. You can see in the chart below that AMC's enterprise value, which is the combined value of a stock's shares and debt (minus cash), is still higher than the years before COVID-19. In other words, the company's new debt and shares have inflated the stock's total valuation, despite the per-share price continuing to fall.AMC enterprise value. Data by YCharts.AMC isn't doing so well from an operating standpoint, either; the company burned more than $700 million in 2021. I should note that AMC also closed the year with almost $1.6 billion in cash, so it isn't likely to go out of business soon. However, the company will probably need to turn a profit to be a fruitful long-term holding for investors.The last time AMC had positive free cash flow was in 2019, when it generated just $61 million from $5.4 billion in revenue. Put another way, the company wasn't developing a lot of cash profit even before the pandemic.Questionable management movesAMC recently announced that it made a $28 million investment into Hycroft Mining, a gold and silver mine in Nevada. The stake gives AMC 22% ownership, with management describing the investment as an opportunity to benefit from helping a distressed business, much like AMC was a year ago.Hycroft Mining isn't in a position to generate meaningful short-term value for itself or AMC, having made layoffs after ceasing operations at its mine last November. On the one hand, the investment is a small fraction of AMC's balance sheet, which has up to $1.8 billion in liquidity if you include untapped credit lines.However, it might be fairer to question what business AMC has allocating capital to speculative assets like this. It's utterly unrelated to its own business, making it hard to accept that AMC would even know how to value an asset like this, let alone invest in it. That money probably could have been better spent, considering the theater operator is still not operating at a high level. Perhaps AMC could have purchased a stake in a streaming company, or an entertainment studio -- anything related to its core competence!Investor takeawayThe market doesn't seem as friendly to speculative investments anymore, and investors are putting more emphasis on fundamentals and profits than in 2021. AMC has been one of the faces of the meme stock craze, but it could get increasingly difficult to find support for a valuation that's still above when the company was much healthier.Share prices are ultimately a function of supply and demand for a stock in the short term, but fundamentals often tell the long-term story. Given AMC's continued struggles and head-scratching decision to allocate precious capital to a risky, unrelated investment, it might be best to stay away from AMC until more smoke clears from around its business. 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The Leawood, Kansas-based company that operates the world’s biggest chain of movie theaters reported a rare earnings beat on May 9, but even that hasn’t helped AMC stock, which continues to slide lower.</p><p>Now down 70% in the past six months at just $12, AMC stock is a long way from its peak last year when the price stood at $72.62. And while the comedown since last fall has been hard, the irony is that a majority of analysts still feel AMC stock is overvalued at current levels.</p><p>After the just announced earnings beat, analysts at research firm MKM Partners cut their rating on AMC shares to “sell” and placed a 12-month price target on the stock of $1.</p><p>AMC Stock Saw Improving Results</p><p>For this year’s first quarter, AMC Entertainment reported a net loss of $337.4 million, or a loss of 65 cents per share. That was an improvement over the loss of $567.2 million, or a loss of $1.42 per share, recorded a year earlier.</p><p>Excluding one-time items, AMC’s Q1 loss amounted to a loss of 52 cents per share, which was less than the loss of 63 cents forecast by Wall Street analysts. Revenue in the quarter came in at $785.7 million, which was 430% higher than $148.3 million generated in the year-earlier period and better than the $743 million analysts expected. The company finished the quarter with $1.3 billion of cash on hand.</p><p>The improved results come as moviegoers return to theaters for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began. AMC said nearly 40 million people visited its theaters during the first quarter to see hit films such as <i>The Batman</i>and<i>Sonic The Hedgehog 2</i>.</p><p>The debut of new Marvel movie <i>Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness</i>, which earned a global haul of $450 million during its opening weekend, should help drive traffic and sales at AMC’s more than 10,500 movie screens around the world. There are also several highly anticipated movies coming to the big screens is summer, including <i>Top Gun: Maverick,</i> <i>Thor: Love and Thunder</i>and<i>Minions: The Rise of Gru</i>.</p><p>The Long Road Back for AMC</p><p>It’s been a tough recovery for AMC Entertainment, which had all of its movie theaters shut down in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. It was then forced to operate throughout 2021 with limited capacities and other restrictions.</p><p>On top of that, several big movies such had their release dates shelved during the pandemic, while other films bypassed theaters altogether and went directly to streaming platforms. Only now is AMC starting to recover and able to operate at full capacity, showing blockbuster movies that attract big audiences for several weeks at a time.</p><p>Yet the company’s earning show AMC is not completely out of the woods. Despite its revenue increasing 430% in this year’s first quarter, the company’s spending during the period outpaced those sales, leading to a loss.</p><p>AMC said it spent nearly $1 billion in Q1 on operating expenses and rent across its movie theater chains in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Plus, several of the initiatives the company launched during the pandemic, such as plans to sell its popcorn in convenience stores and at other retail outlets, didn’t pan out as hoped.</p><p>Add to this continued negative sentiment on the part of analysts, and it’s easy to see AMC is having trouble escaping its reputation as a meme stock.</p><p>Don’t Buy AMC Stock</p><p>Among six analysts that continue to cover AMC Entertainment, the median price target on the stock is currently $5, suggesting the share price has another 58% to fall from current levels. As mentioned, MKM Partners expects AMC stock to drop to $1.</p><p>While attendance at its movie theaters is improving, AMC has a long way to go to get back to where it was pre-pandemic. And the stock continues to be viewed as overvalued despite having fallen 70% since last fall. In this environment, investors would be smart to stay clear of AMC, or at least wait for the share price to inevitably drop further.</p></body></html>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>AMC Entertainment Is Still Not a Buy Despite Improved Earnings</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAMC Entertainment Is Still Not a Buy Despite Improved Earnings\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-05-18 16:30 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2022/05/amc-stock-is-still-not-a-buy-despite-improved-earnings/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>AMC Entertainment (AMC) just reported better-than-expected Q1 earnings.However, the movie theater chain is not out of the woods yet and is struggling to return its business to pre-pandemic levels.AMC ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2022/05/amc-stock-is-still-not-a-buy-despite-improved-earnings/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2022/05/amc-stock-is-still-not-a-buy-despite-improved-earnings/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1197768730","content_text":"AMC Entertainment (AMC) just reported better-than-expected Q1 earnings.However, the movie theater chain is not out of the woods yet and is struggling to return its business to pre-pandemic levels.AMC stock remains under pressure, with at least one analyst forecasting it will fall to just $1 per share.Down 27% in the past week, things look to be going from bad to worse for troubled meme stock AMC Entertainment(NYSE:AMC). The Leawood, Kansas-based company that operates the world’s biggest chain of movie theaters reported a rare earnings beat on May 9, but even that hasn’t helped AMC stock, which continues to slide lower.Now down 70% in the past six months at just $12, AMC stock is a long way from its peak last year when the price stood at $72.62. And while the comedown since last fall has been hard, the irony is that a majority of analysts still feel AMC stock is overvalued at current levels.After the just announced earnings beat, analysts at research firm MKM Partners cut their rating on AMC shares to “sell” and placed a 12-month price target on the stock of $1.AMC Stock Saw Improving ResultsFor this year’s first quarter, AMC Entertainment reported a net loss of $337.4 million, or a loss of 65 cents per share. That was an improvement over the loss of $567.2 million, or a loss of $1.42 per share, recorded a year earlier.Excluding one-time items, AMC’s Q1 loss amounted to a loss of 52 cents per share, which was less than the loss of 63 cents forecast by Wall Street analysts. Revenue in the quarter came in at $785.7 million, which was 430% higher than $148.3 million generated in the year-earlier period and better than the $743 million analysts expected. The company finished the quarter with $1.3 billion of cash on hand.The improved results come as moviegoers return to theaters for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began. AMC said nearly 40 million people visited its theaters during the first quarter to see hit films such as The BatmanandSonic The Hedgehog 2.The debut of new Marvel movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which earned a global haul of $450 million during its opening weekend, should help drive traffic and sales at AMC’s more than 10,500 movie screens around the world. There are also several highly anticipated movies coming to the big screens is summer, including Top Gun: Maverick, Thor: Love and ThunderandMinions: The Rise of Gru.The Long Road Back for AMCIt’s been a tough recovery for AMC Entertainment, which had all of its movie theaters shut down in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. It was then forced to operate throughout 2021 with limited capacities and other restrictions.On top of that, several big movies such had their release dates shelved during the pandemic, while other films bypassed theaters altogether and went directly to streaming platforms. Only now is AMC starting to recover and able to operate at full capacity, showing blockbuster movies that attract big audiences for several weeks at a time.Yet the company’s earning show AMC is not completely out of the woods. Despite its revenue increasing 430% in this year’s first quarter, the company’s spending during the period outpaced those sales, leading to a loss.AMC said it spent nearly $1 billion in Q1 on operating expenses and rent across its movie theater chains in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Plus, several of the initiatives the company launched during the pandemic, such as plans to sell its popcorn in convenience stores and at other retail outlets, didn’t pan out as hoped.Add to this continued negative sentiment on the part of analysts, and it’s easy to see AMC is having trouble escaping its reputation as a meme stock.Don’t Buy AMC StockAmong six analysts that continue to cover AMC Entertainment, the median price target on the stock is currently $5, suggesting the share price has another 58% to fall from current levels. As mentioned, MKM Partners expects AMC stock to drop to $1.While attendance at its movie theaters is improving, AMC has a long way to go to get back to where it was pre-pandemic. And the stock continues to be viewed as overvalued despite having fallen 70% since last fall. In this environment, investors would be smart to stay clear of AMC, or at least wait for the share price to inevitably drop further.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":214,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9088508981,"gmtCreate":1650357861334,"gmtModify":1676534704372,"author":{"id":"3573518618619259","authorId":"3573518618619259","name":"Markh72","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/48640d619fbc005d12f6239d6a12b1aa","crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3573518618619259","authorIdStr":"3573518618619259"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"I agree, it used to be motley Fool but now investor place has taken over","listText":"I agree, it used to be motley Fool but now investor place has taken over","text":"I agree, it used to be motley Fool but now investor place has taken over","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9088508981","repostId":"1140012986","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1140012986","pubTimestamp":1650356587,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1140012986?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2022-04-19 16:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC’s Newest Theatre Acquisitions Won’t Turn Analysts Bullish","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1140012986","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"AMC Entertainment(NYSE:AMC) recently announced that it acquired seven locations with 66 screens in C","content":"<html><head></head><body><p><b>AMC Entertainment</b>(NYSE:<b><u>AMC</u></b>) recently announced that it acquired seven locations with 66 screens in Connecticut, Upstate New York and Annapolis, Maryland. The meme-friendly theatre chain acquired the theatres from <b>Bow Tie Cinemas</b>. AMC stock gained 6% on the news.</p><p>While the stock got a one-day boost from the news, the acquisition of these theatres will not turn analysts bullish on the company’s prospects. Of the eight covering AMC stock, three rate it a hold and five think it’s an outright sell with a median target price of $6, 65% below where it’s currently trading.</p><p>Analysts don’t like AMC. Investors shouldn’t either. Here’s why.</p><p>Ever the promotor, CEO Adam Aron was raving about the impact these seven theatres would make on its business and growth strategy.</p><p>“Our theatre acquisition strategy makes AMC a better and stronger company as we move forward on our glide path to recovery. Acquiring these locations is especially notable for our expansion in Connecticut, where we are more than doubling our presence,” Aron stated in the press release.</p><p>There’s no question moviegoers in Connecticut will benefit from an expanded AMC presence in the state, but that doesn’t mean shareholders should be thrilled with these purchases. Instead, it adds to the company’s significant debt.</p><p>The company’s most recent significant acquisition was Nordic Cinema Group in March 2017. It paid$964 million, including the assumption of $312.5 million of the Scandinavian company’s debt. That acquisition also included a 50% investment in another theatre chain with 50 theatres and 201 screens. That acquisition at the time had AMC operating 1,000 theatres worldwide.</p><p>Sure, covid-19 has definitely led to AMC shuttering some theaters, but an acquisition of seven versus approximately 93 just five years ago says a lot about how much the pandemic has drastically altered their capacity.</p><p>However, a big deal is that AMC already has plenty of movie theatres in both the U.S. and elsewhere. So it needs additional revenue streams, and I’m not talking about mining revenue.</p><p>I often make light of analyst stock ratings and target price projections in my commentaries. The reality, however, is that they spend significant hours creating financial models for the companies they cover, and more often than not, the earnings and revenue estimates are pretty darn close.</p><p>So, the fact that the highest target price for AMC stock is $6, $11.35 less than its current share price, says all you need to know about Wall Street’s view of the company.</p><p>Growing its footprint of theatres in the U.S. and elsewhere might appear to be a value-oriented proposition given how smaller theatre chains have suffered during covid-19. But it’s throwing good money after bad.</p><p>Adam Aron has to create new revenue streams that leverage its customer base. He doesn’t need more customers; he needs to make more money from his customers.</p><p>Analysts don’t see this happening. I second that opinion. Theatre acquisitions aren’t the solution. Not by a long shot.</p></body></html>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>AMC’s Newest Theatre Acquisitions Won’t Turn Analysts Bullish</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAMC’s Newest Theatre Acquisitions Won’t Turn Analysts Bullish\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2022-04-19 16:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2022/04/amcs-newest-acquisitions-wont-turn-analysts-bullish-on-amc-stock/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>AMC Entertainment(NYSE:AMC) recently announced that it acquired seven locations with 66 screens in Connecticut, Upstate New York and Annapolis, Maryland. The meme-friendly theatre chain acquired the ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2022/04/amcs-newest-acquisitions-wont-turn-analysts-bullish-on-amc-stock/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2022/04/amcs-newest-acquisitions-wont-turn-analysts-bullish-on-amc-stock/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1140012986","content_text":"AMC Entertainment(NYSE:AMC) recently announced that it acquired seven locations with 66 screens in Connecticut, Upstate New York and Annapolis, Maryland. The meme-friendly theatre chain acquired the theatres from Bow Tie Cinemas. AMC stock gained 6% on the news.While the stock got a one-day boost from the news, the acquisition of these theatres will not turn analysts bullish on the company’s prospects. Of the eight covering AMC stock, three rate it a hold and five think it’s an outright sell with a median target price of $6, 65% below where it’s currently trading.Analysts don’t like AMC. Investors shouldn’t either. Here’s why.Ever the promotor, CEO Adam Aron was raving about the impact these seven theatres would make on its business and growth strategy.“Our theatre acquisition strategy makes AMC a better and stronger company as we move forward on our glide path to recovery. Acquiring these locations is especially notable for our expansion in Connecticut, where we are more than doubling our presence,” Aron stated in the press release.There’s no question moviegoers in Connecticut will benefit from an expanded AMC presence in the state, but that doesn’t mean shareholders should be thrilled with these purchases. Instead, it adds to the company’s significant debt.The company’s most recent significant acquisition was Nordic Cinema Group in March 2017. It paid$964 million, including the assumption of $312.5 million of the Scandinavian company’s debt. That acquisition also included a 50% investment in another theatre chain with 50 theatres and 201 screens. That acquisition at the time had AMC operating 1,000 theatres worldwide.Sure, covid-19 has definitely led to AMC shuttering some theaters, but an acquisition of seven versus approximately 93 just five years ago says a lot about how much the pandemic has drastically altered their capacity.However, a big deal is that AMC already has plenty of movie theatres in both the U.S. and elsewhere. So it needs additional revenue streams, and I’m not talking about mining revenue.I often make light of analyst stock ratings and target price projections in my commentaries. The reality, however, is that they spend significant hours creating financial models for the companies they cover, and more often than not, the earnings and revenue estimates are pretty darn close.So, the fact that the highest target price for AMC stock is $6, $11.35 less than its current share price, says all you need to know about Wall Street’s view of the company.Growing its footprint of theatres in the U.S. and elsewhere might appear to be a value-oriented proposition given how smaller theatre chains have suffered during covid-19. But it’s throwing good money after bad.Adam Aron has to create new revenue streams that leverage its customer base. He doesn’t need more customers; he needs to make more money from his customers.Analysts don’t see this happening. I second that opinion. Theatre acquisitions aren’t the solution. Not by a long shot.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":269,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}