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cash than it generates every quarter since 2019.</p></li><li><p>Keeping a business alive is all about generating positive net income and cash flows. AMC continues to be unable to do that.</p></li></ul><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6a7c98e801c0dca6aeb6904f43d101d8\" title=\"J. Michael Jones/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\"/><span>J. Michael Jones/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p><h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">The theatrical industry outlook is still bleak</h2><p style=\"text-align: left;\">While Adam Aron, AMC Entertainment Holdings&#39; (NYSE:AMC) CEO loves to tout the latest blockbuster release, theatres worldwide cannot survive on just blockbuster films alone. Despite a great slate of hit films post-pandemic in 2022 and 2023, the bottom line for operators is just not improving fast enough.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cineworld Group plc, one of the largest theater operators in the world filed for Chapter 11 last year. The U.S. Bankruptcy court approved the company&#39;s post-bankruptcy plan last month. Cineworld operates theater chain Regal Cinemas here in the U.S.A. As part of the plan Cineworld will cut $4.53 billion in debt, wipe out existing shareholders, and transfer ownership of the company to its lenders.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">How long will it be before AMC suffers the same fate? If we take a serious look at the numbers, I believe Adam Aron may be forced to take his company down the same path as Cineworld before the end of the year, possibly as soon as Q3 of this year.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is why I see this as a real possibility. Let&#39;s look at a graph of AMC&#39;s annual gross revenues and net income from 2017 through 2022.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c8886f7bf0f385dc2c33259479d680f0\" title=\"author (source: AMC financial reports.)\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"411\"/><span>author (source: AMC financial reports.)</span></p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">From 2017 through 2019, before the pandemic, AMC&#39;s revenues were cruising along above $5 billion per year. Then the pandemic hit. Theaters had to shut down in early 2020 and did not reopen until the spring of 2021. 2022 was the first full year of operations since 2019. But as we can see in 2022, revenues were still down over $1.5 billion or 29% from 2019.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">The bigger problem has been, and continues to be Net Income. As shown in the charts above and below net income has been at, or barely above, break even dating all the way back to 2014. The company&#39;s net income plunged in 2020 at a time when the company was low on cash.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/45db5159fd268b39ef1b727c3155e288\" title=\"Data by YCharts\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"417\"/><span>Data by YCharts</span></p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">By the grace of the &#34;meme&#34; stock craze in January 2021, AMC&#39;s cash position rebounded with the sale of millions of additional shares pumping up the cash position to nearly $2 billion that year on the backs of new, small investors driven into believing that a &#34;MOASS&#34; (mother of all short squeezes) was imminent. Two and a half years later it still is nowhere in sight.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">This belief in an imminent short squeeze was based on unfounded rumors of millions of &#34;naked&#34; short sales of AMC stock. This is selling shares of a stock you do not own. That promise of this condition that could result in sending the stock price up to $1,000 or as much as $100,000 per share is what drove this small army of investors known as &#34;Ape&#34;s to divert their paychecks into AMC shares. Unfortunately, this condition of naked shorts has never been proven to exist. But it helped sell a lot of AMC shares to enthusiastic novice investors.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Since the height of the &#34;Meme&#34; craze, the cash has continued to burn down every quarter. For the first time since the end of 2020 cash and equivalents fell below $500 million as you can see in the next chart.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e214dc36e98533a4ec5ab8d16698c4d\" title=\"Data by YCharts\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"435\"/><span>Data by YCharts</span></p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now you may ask why is this a problem if the cash on hand was very low between 2014 and 2019? During those years the net income losses were very small while revenues were very high, as you can see in the top chart. But when revenues decline, you do not have as much cash moving through the company. That can put pressure on timely payments.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Further complicating the situation is the expansion program Adam Aron started in 2016 increasing the total number of theaters. In doing so, AMC took on huge amounts of debt. Then came the pandemic and AMC borrowed $billions more to keep the company afloat.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/15e43dcd96a210260777d9d7dcea2959\" title=\"Data by YCharts\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"417\"/><span>Data by YCharts</span></p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the next chart below, you can see how the quarterly debt payments have tripled since 2017. Despite a reduction in total long term liabilities starting in 2021, quarterly interest payments continue to increase; up to $101.1 million in 1Q23. That&#39;s an increase of $8.7 million QoQ from 4Q22. So reductions in debt are not slowing down the increasing costs of carrying $billions in debt.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fa445436875d861a9d2dfbbe43fd9b0c\" title=\"Data by YCharts\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"435\"/><span>Data by YCharts</span></p><h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">What is ahead now?</h2><p style=\"text-align: left;\">I do not see any growth in revenue to boost the totals to the numbers in 2018 and 2019 in the foreseeable future. Despite all the new hit films so far this year, box office numbers are still not improving by much over 2022. The numbers in the next chart cover the first quarter of 2023.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">April 2023 had a domestic box office of $900 million, just $134 million lower than 2019 thanks to the power of the Super Mario Bros. movie. May 2023 dropped to $773.9 million which lagged 2019 by $304 million. It&#39;s too early in the month to get a bead on June.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d13e546ff3eddac82a16ad216220891a\" title=\"chart (author) (source: Box Office Mojo and AMC financial reports)\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"413\"/><span>chart (author) (source: Box Office Mojo and AMC financial reports)</span></p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">But what is clear is the second quarter of 2023 will be another net loss for AMC. Investors are hoping for some sort of a bailout with the conversion of AMC&#39;s convertible preferred shares (APE) into common shares. Tied to that event is a 1-for-10 reverse split to boost the stock price. The reverse split approved by shareholders in an April vote is a very bad idea in this author&#39;s opinion. One of the main reasons so many small investors bought into AMC shares was the low price point before the jump in June 2021 when the shares closed at about $60. Some took their profits and moved on. But in reading postings in different forums like Reddit, many Apes are still holding onto huge losses and refusing to sell.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">The jump in price in June 2021 was fueled by the &#34;MOASS&#34; everyone thought was starting. It however rapidly fizzled and the stock price has been in decline ever since. It has had a few upward spurts in price in the last 2 years but each one was lower in price and very short duration.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">The low stock price continues to attract current small investors trying to lower their average cost per share. Driving the price back up to 10x times the current $4.59 with the expected reverse split could force small investors to stop buying shares. That is something AMC will desperately need to try to replenish their cash coffers. But I fail to see why anyone would buy more shares at 10 times the current price when net income continues to be negative. I can&#39;t see new investors being willing to continue to feed the AMC cash firepit. If AMC was barely profitable once in a while pre-pandemic, today&#39;s higher interest rates on their debt and costs of doing business would require revenue levels ABOVE 2019 at a minimum to hope for breakeven or a profit.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some readers may be wondering about the Writer&#39;s Guild strike now underway. It will not have any effect for a year or more. Film scripts are written years before pre-production even begins in most cases. Television is a completely different thing. The strike will have immediate effects on those shows. But not films.</p><h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">What to do</h2><p style=\"text-align: left;\">The net drop to cash in 1Q23 was reported as $135.9 million. Unless Adam Aron can stop the bleeding AMC will run out of cash by year-end. The drop in cash and equivalents from June 30, 2021 when it was at $1.811 billion to under $500 million now should be alarming to any investor. But companies like AMC cannot wait until cash completely runs out to take action. Companies like AMC need cash to continue operations while going through the Chapter 11 process. I believe AMC would have an excellent chance of survival after Chapter 11 for several reasons. First, all debt gets renegotiated. Second, current shareholders get wiped out making room to raise fresh cash from new investors. After being able to get the debt burden off its back AMC, under new management, should flourish just as I expect Cineworld to do.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">With the odds growing rapidly that AMC may have to file for Chapter 11 protection, this author believes it would be a terrible idea for current investors to sink any additional funds into this stock, or for others to consider buying shares until after the company exits a Chapter 11 filing.</p><p><em>This article is written by </em><strong><em>Donn Bailey</em></strong><em> for reference only. 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AMC continues to be unable to do that.J. Michael Jones/iStock Editorial via Getty ImagesThe theatrical industry outlook is still bleakWhile Adam Aron, AMC Entertainment Holdings' (NYSE:AMC) CEO loves to tout the latest blockbuster release, theatres worldwide cannot survive on just blockbuster films alone. Despite a great slate of hit films post-pandemic in 2022 and 2023, the bottom line for operators is just not improving fast enough.Cineworld Group plc, one of the largest theater operators in the world filed for Chapter 11 last year. The U.S. Bankruptcy court approved the company's post-bankruptcy plan last month. Cineworld operates theater chain Regal Cinemas here in the U.S.A. As part of the plan Cineworld will cut $4.53 billion in debt, wipe out existing shareholders, and transfer ownership of the company to its lenders.How long will it be before AMC suffers the same fate? If we take a serious look at the numbers, I believe Adam Aron may be forced to take his company down the same path as Cineworld before the end of the year, possibly as soon as Q3 of this year.Here is why I see this as a real possibility. Let's look at a graph of AMC's annual gross revenues and net income from 2017 through 2022.author (source: AMC financial reports.)From 2017 through 2019, before the pandemic, AMC's revenues were cruising along above $5 billion per year. Then the pandemic hit. Theaters had to shut down in early 2020 and did not reopen until the spring of 2021. 2022 was the first full year of operations since 2019. But as we can see in 2022, revenues were still down over $1.5 billion or 29% from 2019.The bigger problem has been, and continues to be Net Income. As shown in the charts above and below net income has been at, or barely above, break even dating all the way back to 2014. The company's net income plunged in 2020 at a time when the company was low on cash.Data by YChartsBy the grace of the \"meme\" stock craze in January 2021, AMC's cash position rebounded with the sale of millions of additional shares pumping up the cash position to nearly $2 billion that year on the backs of new, small investors driven into believing that a \"MOASS\" (mother of all short squeezes) was imminent. Two and a half years later it still is nowhere in sight.This belief in an imminent short squeeze was based on unfounded rumors of millions of \"naked\" short sales of AMC stock. This is selling shares of a stock you do not own. That promise of this condition that could result in sending the stock price up to $1,000 or as much as $100,000 per share is what drove this small army of investors known as \"Ape\"s to divert their paychecks into AMC shares. Unfortunately, this condition of naked shorts has never been proven to exist. But it helped sell a lot of AMC shares to enthusiastic novice investors.Since the height of the \"Meme\" craze, the cash has continued to burn down every quarter. For the first time since the end of 2020 cash and equivalents fell below $500 million as you can see in the next chart.Data by YChartsNow you may ask why is this a problem if the cash on hand was very low between 2014 and 2019? During those years the net income losses were very small while revenues were very high, as you can see in the top chart. But when revenues decline, you do not have as much cash moving through the company. That can put pressure on timely payments.Further complicating the situation is the expansion program Adam Aron started in 2016 increasing the total number of theaters. In doing so, AMC took on huge amounts of debt. Then came the pandemic and AMC borrowed $billions more to keep the company afloat.Data by YChartsIn the next chart below, you can see how the quarterly debt payments have tripled since 2017. Despite a reduction in total long term liabilities starting in 2021, quarterly interest payments continue to increase; up to $101.1 million in 1Q23. That's an increase of $8.7 million QoQ from 4Q22. So reductions in debt are not slowing down the increasing costs of carrying $billions in debt.Data by YChartsWhat is ahead now?I do not see any growth in revenue to boost the totals to the numbers in 2018 and 2019 in the foreseeable future. Despite all the new hit films so far this year, box office numbers are still not improving by much over 2022. The numbers in the next chart cover the first quarter of 2023.April 2023 had a domestic box office of $900 million, just $134 million lower than 2019 thanks to the power of the Super Mario Bros. movie. May 2023 dropped to $773.9 million which lagged 2019 by $304 million. It's too early in the month to get a bead on June.chart (author) (source: Box Office Mojo and AMC financial reports)But what is clear is the second quarter of 2023 will be another net loss for AMC. Investors are hoping for some sort of a bailout with the conversion of AMC's convertible preferred shares (APE) into common shares. Tied to that event is a 1-for-10 reverse split to boost the stock price. The reverse split approved by shareholders in an April vote is a very bad idea in this author's opinion. One of the main reasons so many small investors bought into AMC shares was the low price point before the jump in June 2021 when the shares closed at about $60. Some took their profits and moved on. But in reading postings in different forums like Reddit, many Apes are still holding onto huge losses and refusing to sell.The jump in price in June 2021 was fueled by the \"MOASS\" everyone thought was starting. It however rapidly fizzled and the stock price has been in decline ever since. It has had a few upward spurts in price in the last 2 years but each one was lower in price and very short duration.The low stock price continues to attract current small investors trying to lower their average cost per share. Driving the price back up to 10x times the current $4.59 with the expected reverse split could force small investors to stop buying shares. That is something AMC will desperately need to try to replenish their cash coffers. But I fail to see why anyone would buy more shares at 10 times the current price when net income continues to be negative. I can't see new investors being willing to continue to feed the AMC cash firepit. If AMC was barely profitable once in a while pre-pandemic, today's higher interest rates on their debt and costs of doing business would require revenue levels ABOVE 2019 at a minimum to hope for breakeven or a profit.Some readers may be wondering about the Writer's Guild strike now underway. It will not have any effect for a year or more. Film scripts are written years before pre-production even begins in most cases. Television is a completely different thing. The strike will have immediate effects on those shows. But not films.What to doThe net drop to cash in 1Q23 was reported as $135.9 million. Unless Adam Aron can stop the bleeding AMC will run out of cash by year-end. The drop in cash and equivalents from June 30, 2021 when it was at $1.811 billion to under $500 million now should be alarming to any investor. But companies like AMC cannot wait until cash completely runs out to take action. Companies like AMC need cash to continue operations while going through the Chapter 11 process. I believe AMC would have an excellent chance of survival after Chapter 11 for several reasons. First, all debt gets renegotiated. Second, current shareholders get wiped out making room to raise fresh cash from new investors. After being able to get the debt burden off its back AMC, under new management, should flourish just as I expect Cineworld to do.With the odds growing rapidly that AMC may have to file for Chapter 11 protection, this author believes it would be a terrible idea for current investors to sink any additional funds into this stock, or for others to consider buying shares until after the company exits a Chapter 11 filing.This article is written by Donn Bailey for reference only. 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We’d all seen this story before, and InvestorPlace.com writer Thomas Niel pulled no punches in an analysis a couple of weeks before BBBY’s bankruptcy filing.</p><p>Time to use those expiring coupons!</p><p>At the time, many retail investors seemed entirely caught off guard. Meme investors were still buying until the very end, and some are still holding on.</p><p>“I think that Bed Bath &amp; Beyond, even in bankruptcy, is one of the best deals in the stock market,” one 25-year-old investor said in an interview with <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> earlier this month. The newspaper noted how many BBBY investors remain committed, even as shares moved onto the over-the-counter (OTC) exchange.</p><p>Nevertheless, we’ve begun noticing a shift away from meme stocks and iffy cryptos. Our editor’s inbox has seen an uptick in readers thanking us for bearish takes (a rarity!), and articles like Omor Ibne Ehsan’s “3 Cryptos to Sell in May and Go Away” have received heavy readership. It’s a clear sign that the bottom is finally falling out of the meme stock frenzy.</p><p>We know you probably haven’t bought these speculative stocks before… and that you likely never will. But in case you have, here are five meme stocks to sell while you still can.</p><h2>1. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MULN\">Mullen Automotive</a> (MULN): A Meme Stock Collapses</h2><p>In January, I wrote how electric vehicle startup <strong>Mullen Automotive</strong> (NASDAQ: <strong>MULN</strong>) had become the new Dogecoin (<strong><u>DOGE-USD</u></strong>) with none of the fun. Fans of the zero-revenue company seemed more interested in proving how right they were about the stock than making money.</p><p>It took a 1-for-25 reverse stock split on May 4 for others to feel the same way. Suddenly, former fanatics began realizing that management seemed more committed to enriching insiders than rewarding external shareholders. For many, the reverse split turned out to be the last straw.</p><p>InvestorPlace.com Assistant News Writer Eddie Pan has been carefully documenting the precipitous fall in Mullen’s share price. David Moadel has also recently published a piece warning investors to get out immediately. As the world’s top meme stock continues to drown in dilutive stock, don’t be surprised if the firm declares bankruptcy sooner than expected.</p><h2>2. Plug Power (PLUG): Trying New Tactics</h2><p>Shares of once-promising <strong>Plug Power</strong> (NASDAQ: <strong>PLUG</strong>) have fallen by a third this year as competition heats up in the green energy space. As Louis Navellier and his team noted earlier this month for InvestorPlace.com:</p><blockquote>Let’s be frank about this. There are plenty of businesses out there already, including some publicly traded ones, that are already in the EV charging business. Plug Power won’t be a first, second or third mover in this highly competitive field.</blockquote><p>Essentially, Plug Power’s hydrogen fuel cell technology is quickly falling behind lithium-ion technologies. Attempts to escape into EV charging expose the firm to competition from better-funded rivals.</p><p>Retail investors are also beginning to abandon the stock. According to data from Fintel, the estimated share of retail investors has fallen by a third since October. Shares are down 30% since January, and Louis continues to warn investors to stay away.</p><h2>3. Lordstown Motors (RIDE): A Slow Flameout</h2><p>Often, meme stock investors stick around for longer than you might expect.</p><p>In 2020, as we reported at InvestorPlace.com, the Ohio-based <strong>Lordstown Motors</strong> (NASDAQ: <strong>RIDE</strong>) looked ready to fall to $0. The electric pickup startup was using inflated figures to hide the lack of any meaningful preorders and was “selling pickups to Wall Street instead of Main Street.” The short sellers at <strong>Hindenburg Research</strong> would publish a similar critique four months later.</p><p>It would take another two years for RIDE shares to sink below $1, which happened this March. And then, things got even worse. By May, shares had collapsed to 28 cents, forcing the firm to reverse-split its shares. The acceleration of Lordstown’s fall has been closely documented by William White at InvestorPlace.com.</p><p>Recent market data from Fintel shows us that available shares for sorting have fallen to near zero as short sellers outnumber buyers. History tells us these events are highly bearish signs, and retail investors are, for once, beginning to listen.</p><h2>4. Pepe Coin (PEPE-USD): Mixing Memes and Madness</h2><p>In early May, prices of meme cryptocurrency <strong>Pepe Coin</strong> (<strong>PEPE-USD</strong>) rose 20-fold on speculative purchasing. Its unrelated BRC-20 token would see even greater percentage gains.</p><p>But as we know… easy come, easy go.</p><p>Omor Ibne Ehsan was quick to document at InvestorPlace.com how meme coins – especially Pepe – “are not worth it, especially not near their peak.”</p><blockquote>I’ve seen this story before with other meme coins. Dogecoin, the original dog-themed meme coin, has crashed over 88% since its peak. <strong>Apecoin</strong> (<strong>APE-USD</strong>), another meme coin that I warned about a few months after its launch, has virtually stopped being relevant after dropping 91.5%-plus from its all-time high. Pepe is a sell, as it offers no long-term potential and is likely to keep sliding downwards.</blockquote><p>Interest in meme coins has continued to sputter, suggesting Pepe Coin will continue to fall. Full turnover of the meme coin’s market capitalization now takes around four days, up from 20 hours earlier this month. Ethereum transaction fees – which spiked in early May on speculative meme coin trading – are down 50%.</p><p>To most investors, Pepe would seem like an obvious dud. But with a $500 million market capitalization, there’s surely more downside to be had.</p><h2>5. AMC (AMC): Dethroning the King of the Apes</h2><p>Finally, retail investors are beginning to lose interest in <strong>AMC Entertainment</strong> (NYSE: <strong>AMC</strong>), one of the biggest meme stocks of all. The cinema chain has seen a rapid decline in retail ownership this year, as noted by Fintel. Estimated retail ownership has declined by about 50% since December and is 70% lower than it was this time last year.</p><p>Over at InvestorPlace.com, David Moadel and Eddie Pan have also been documenting sales by institutional investors. Recent filings reveal that <strong>Bridgewater Associates</strong> sold its entire AMC position during this year’s first quarter, while Antara Capital dumped 2 million units of <strong>AMC Preferred Equity Units</strong> (NYSE: <strong><u>APE</u></strong>).</p><p>One major cause is the upcoming merge between AMC’s common stock with its APE preferred shares. The dilutive event has been stalled by Delaware courts, leaving fundraising efforts in limbo.</p><p>This will leave America’s largest theater chain with limited cash in the near term. The company is already down to $496 million in liquidity, down from $1.2 billion last June. Unless the firm can raise fresh equity capital soon, CEO Adam Aron will be forced to turn back to the debt markets that almost sank the firm once before.</p><p>Investors once hoped that AMC could consolidate the industry and become a rare meme-stock success story. Waning interest from primate-themed investors is now throwing that into question.</p><h2>The School of Hard Knocks</h2><p>Every experienced investor will have a story of their worst investment. Warren Buffett himself admitted in 2007 that his investment in no-moat Dexter Shoes was an utter disaster.</p><blockquote>I’ll make more mistakes in the future – you can bet on that. A line from Bobby Bare’s country song explains what too often happens with acquisitions: “I’ve never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I’ve sure woke up with a few.”</blockquote><p>Nevertheless, top investors all learn from their mistakes. Buffett now rarely uses <strong>Berkshire Hathaway </strong>(NYSE: <strong><u>BRK-A</u></strong>, NYSE:<strong><u>BRK-B</u></strong>) stock to fund deals, knowing these stock-for-stock deals will compound any problems.</p><p>After more than two years of meme madness, retail investors also finally seem to be learning from their mistakes. Turnover and ownership in these speculative assets are down 50% or more, and we have noticed a clear change in sentiment from our readers.</p><p>It’s surely been an expensive lesson. Companies like Bed Bath &amp; Beyond destroyed billions of shareholder value toward the end of their existence. 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We’d all seen this story before, and InvestorPlace.com writer Thomas Niel pulled no punches in an analysis a couple of weeks before BBBY’s bankruptcy filing.Time to use those expiring coupons!At the time, many retail investors seemed entirely caught off guard. Meme investors were still buying until the very end, and some are still holding on.“I think that Bed Bath & Beyond, even in bankruptcy, is one of the best deals in the stock market,” one 25-year-old investor said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal earlier this month. The newspaper noted how many BBBY investors remain committed, even as shares moved onto the over-the-counter (OTC) exchange.Nevertheless, we’ve begun noticing a shift away from meme stocks and iffy cryptos. Our editor’s inbox has seen an uptick in readers thanking us for bearish takes (a rarity!), and articles like Omor Ibne Ehsan’s “3 Cryptos to Sell in May and Go Away” have received heavy readership. It’s a clear sign that the bottom is finally falling out of the meme stock frenzy.We know you probably haven’t bought these speculative stocks before… and that you likely never will. But in case you have, here are five meme stocks to sell while you still can.1. Mullen Automotive (MULN): A Meme Stock CollapsesIn January, I wrote how electric vehicle startup Mullen Automotive (NASDAQ: MULN) had become the new Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) with none of the fun. Fans of the zero-revenue company seemed more interested in proving how right they were about the stock than making money.It took a 1-for-25 reverse stock split on May 4 for others to feel the same way. Suddenly, former fanatics began realizing that management seemed more committed to enriching insiders than rewarding external shareholders. For many, the reverse split turned out to be the last straw.InvestorPlace.com Assistant News Writer Eddie Pan has been carefully documenting the precipitous fall in Mullen’s share price. David Moadel has also recently published a piece warning investors to get out immediately. As the world’s top meme stock continues to drown in dilutive stock, don’t be surprised if the firm declares bankruptcy sooner than expected.2. Plug Power (PLUG): Trying New TacticsShares of once-promising Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) have fallen by a third this year as competition heats up in the green energy space. As Louis Navellier and his team noted earlier this month for InvestorPlace.com:Let’s be frank about this. There are plenty of businesses out there already, including some publicly traded ones, that are already in the EV charging business. Plug Power won’t be a first, second or third mover in this highly competitive field.Essentially, Plug Power’s hydrogen fuel cell technology is quickly falling behind lithium-ion technologies. Attempts to escape into EV charging expose the firm to competition from better-funded rivals.Retail investors are also beginning to abandon the stock. According to data from Fintel, the estimated share of retail investors has fallen by a third since October. Shares are down 30% since January, and Louis continues to warn investors to stay away.3. Lordstown Motors (RIDE): A Slow FlameoutOften, meme stock investors stick around for longer than you might expect.In 2020, as we reported at InvestorPlace.com, the Ohio-based Lordstown Motors (NASDAQ: RIDE) looked ready to fall to $0. The electric pickup startup was using inflated figures to hide the lack of any meaningful preorders and was “selling pickups to Wall Street instead of Main Street.” The short sellers at Hindenburg Research would publish a similar critique four months later.It would take another two years for RIDE shares to sink below $1, which happened this March. And then, things got even worse. By May, shares had collapsed to 28 cents, forcing the firm to reverse-split its shares. The acceleration of Lordstown’s fall has been closely documented by William White at InvestorPlace.com.Recent market data from Fintel shows us that available shares for sorting have fallen to near zero as short sellers outnumber buyers. History tells us these events are highly bearish signs, and retail investors are, for once, beginning to listen.4. Pepe Coin (PEPE-USD): Mixing Memes and MadnessIn early May, prices of meme cryptocurrency Pepe Coin (PEPE-USD) rose 20-fold on speculative purchasing. Its unrelated BRC-20 token would see even greater percentage gains.But as we know… easy come, easy go.Omor Ibne Ehsan was quick to document at InvestorPlace.com how meme coins – especially Pepe – “are not worth it, especially not near their peak.”I’ve seen this story before with other meme coins. Dogecoin, the original dog-themed meme coin, has crashed over 88% since its peak. Apecoin (APE-USD), another meme coin that I warned about a few months after its launch, has virtually stopped being relevant after dropping 91.5%-plus from its all-time high. Pepe is a sell, as it offers no long-term potential and is likely to keep sliding downwards.Interest in meme coins has continued to sputter, suggesting Pepe Coin will continue to fall. Full turnover of the meme coin’s market capitalization now takes around four days, up from 20 hours earlier this month. Ethereum transaction fees – which spiked in early May on speculative meme coin trading – are down 50%.To most investors, Pepe would seem like an obvious dud. But with a $500 million market capitalization, there’s surely more downside to be had.5. AMC (AMC): Dethroning the King of the ApesFinally, retail investors are beginning to lose interest in AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC), one of the biggest meme stocks of all. The cinema chain has seen a rapid decline in retail ownership this year, as noted by Fintel. Estimated retail ownership has declined by about 50% since December and is 70% lower than it was this time last year.Over at InvestorPlace.com, David Moadel and Eddie Pan have also been documenting sales by institutional investors. Recent filings reveal that Bridgewater Associates sold its entire AMC position during this year’s first quarter, while Antara Capital dumped 2 million units of AMC Preferred Equity Units (NYSE: APE).One major cause is the upcoming merge between AMC’s common stock with its APE preferred shares. The dilutive event has been stalled by Delaware courts, leaving fundraising efforts in limbo.This will leave America’s largest theater chain with limited cash in the near term. The company is already down to $496 million in liquidity, down from $1.2 billion last June. Unless the firm can raise fresh equity capital soon, CEO Adam Aron will be forced to turn back to the debt markets that almost sank the firm once before.Investors once hoped that AMC could consolidate the industry and become a rare meme-stock success story. Waning interest from primate-themed investors is now throwing that into question.The School of Hard KnocksEvery experienced investor will have a story of their worst investment. Warren Buffett himself admitted in 2007 that his investment in no-moat Dexter Shoes was an utter disaster.I’ll make more mistakes in the future – you can bet on that. A line from Bobby Bare’s country song explains what too often happens with acquisitions: “I’ve never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I’ve sure woke up with a few.”Nevertheless, top investors all learn from their mistakes. Buffett now rarely uses Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A, NYSE:BRK-B) stock to fund deals, knowing these stock-for-stock deals will compound any problems.After more than two years of meme madness, retail investors also finally seem to be learning from their mistakes. Turnover and ownership in these speculative assets are down 50% or more, and we have noticed a clear change in sentiment from our readers.It’s surely been an expensive lesson. Companies like Bed Bath & Beyond destroyed billions of shareholder value toward the end of their existence. 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positive net income and cash flows. AMC continues to be unable to do that.</p></li></ul><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6a7c98e801c0dca6aeb6904f43d101d8\" title=\"J. Michael Jones/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\"/><span>J. Michael Jones/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p><h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">The theatrical industry outlook is still bleak</h2><p style=\"text-align: left;\">While Adam Aron, AMC Entertainment Holdings&#39; (NYSE:AMC) CEO loves to tout the latest blockbuster release, theatres worldwide cannot survive on just blockbuster films alone. Despite a great slate of hit films post-pandemic in 2022 and 2023, the bottom line for operators is just not improving fast enough.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cineworld Group plc, one of the largest theater operators in the world filed for Chapter 11 last year. The U.S. Bankruptcy court approved the company&#39;s post-bankruptcy plan last month. Cineworld operates theater chain Regal Cinemas here in the U.S.A. As part of the plan Cineworld will cut $4.53 billion in debt, wipe out existing shareholders, and transfer ownership of the company to its lenders.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">How long will it be before AMC suffers the same fate? If we take a serious look at the numbers, I believe Adam Aron may be forced to take his company down the same path as Cineworld before the end of the year, possibly as soon as Q3 of this year.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is why I see this as a real possibility. Let&#39;s look at a graph of AMC&#39;s annual gross revenues and net income from 2017 through 2022.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c8886f7bf0f385dc2c33259479d680f0\" title=\"author (source: AMC financial reports.)\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"411\"/><span>author (source: AMC financial reports.)</span></p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">From 2017 through 2019, before the pandemic, AMC&#39;s revenues were cruising along above $5 billion per year. Then the pandemic hit. Theaters had to shut down in early 2020 and did not reopen until the spring of 2021. 2022 was the first full year of operations since 2019. But as we can see in 2022, revenues were still down over $1.5 billion or 29% from 2019.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">The bigger problem has been, and continues to be Net Income. As shown in the charts above and below net income has been at, or barely above, break even dating all the way back to 2014. The company&#39;s net income plunged in 2020 at a time when the company was low on cash.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/45db5159fd268b39ef1b727c3155e288\" title=\"Data by YCharts\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"417\"/><span>Data by YCharts</span></p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">By the grace of the &#34;meme&#34; stock craze in January 2021, AMC&#39;s cash position rebounded with the sale of millions of additional shares pumping up the cash position to nearly $2 billion that year on the backs of new, small investors driven into believing that a &#34;MOASS&#34; (mother of all short squeezes) was imminent. Two and a half years later it still is nowhere in sight.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">This belief in an imminent short squeeze was based on unfounded rumors of millions of &#34;naked&#34; short sales of AMC stock. This is selling shares of a stock you do not own. That promise of this condition that could result in sending the stock price up to $1,000 or as much as $100,000 per share is what drove this small army of investors known as &#34;Ape&#34;s to divert their paychecks into AMC shares. Unfortunately, this condition of naked shorts has never been proven to exist. But it helped sell a lot of AMC shares to enthusiastic novice investors.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Since the height of the &#34;Meme&#34; craze, the cash has continued to burn down every quarter. For the first time since the end of 2020 cash and equivalents fell below $500 million as you can see in the next chart.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e214dc36e98533a4ec5ab8d16698c4d\" title=\"Data by YCharts\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"435\"/><span>Data by YCharts</span></p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now you may ask why is this a problem if the cash on hand was very low between 2014 and 2019? During those years the net income losses were very small while revenues were very high, as you can see in the top chart. But when revenues decline, you do not have as much cash moving through the company. That can put pressure on timely payments.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Further complicating the situation is the expansion program Adam Aron started in 2016 increasing the total number of theaters. In doing so, AMC took on huge amounts of debt. Then came the pandemic and AMC borrowed $billions more to keep the company afloat.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/15e43dcd96a210260777d9d7dcea2959\" title=\"Data by YCharts\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"417\"/><span>Data by YCharts</span></p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the next chart below, you can see how the quarterly debt payments have tripled since 2017. Despite a reduction in total long term liabilities starting in 2021, quarterly interest payments continue to increase; up to $101.1 million in 1Q23. That&#39;s an increase of $8.7 million QoQ from 4Q22. So reductions in debt are not slowing down the increasing costs of carrying $billions in debt.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fa445436875d861a9d2dfbbe43fd9b0c\" title=\"Data by YCharts\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"435\"/><span>Data by YCharts</span></p><h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">What is ahead now?</h2><p style=\"text-align: left;\">I do not see any growth in revenue to boost the totals to the numbers in 2018 and 2019 in the foreseeable future. Despite all the new hit films so far this year, box office numbers are still not improving by much over 2022. The numbers in the next chart cover the first quarter of 2023.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">April 2023 had a domestic box office of $900 million, just $134 million lower than 2019 thanks to the power of the Super Mario Bros. movie. May 2023 dropped to $773.9 million which lagged 2019 by $304 million. It&#39;s too early in the month to get a bead on June.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d13e546ff3eddac82a16ad216220891a\" title=\"chart (author) (source: Box Office Mojo and AMC financial reports)\" tg-width=\"640\" tg-height=\"413\"/><span>chart (author) (source: Box Office Mojo and AMC financial reports)</span></p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">But what is clear is the second quarter of 2023 will be another net loss for AMC. Investors are hoping for some sort of a bailout with the conversion of AMC&#39;s convertible preferred shares (APE) into common shares. Tied to that event is a 1-for-10 reverse split to boost the stock price. The reverse split approved by shareholders in an April vote is a very bad idea in this author&#39;s opinion. One of the main reasons so many small investors bought into AMC shares was the low price point before the jump in June 2021 when the shares closed at about $60. Some took their profits and moved on. But in reading postings in different forums like Reddit, many Apes are still holding onto huge losses and refusing to sell.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">The jump in price in June 2021 was fueled by the &#34;MOASS&#34; everyone thought was starting. It however rapidly fizzled and the stock price has been in decline ever since. It has had a few upward spurts in price in the last 2 years but each one was lower in price and very short duration.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">The low stock price continues to attract current small investors trying to lower their average cost per share. Driving the price back up to 10x times the current $4.59 with the expected reverse split could force small investors to stop buying shares. That is something AMC will desperately need to try to replenish their cash coffers. But I fail to see why anyone would buy more shares at 10 times the current price when net income continues to be negative. I can&#39;t see new investors being willing to continue to feed the AMC cash firepit. If AMC was barely profitable once in a while pre-pandemic, today&#39;s higher interest rates on their debt and costs of doing business would require revenue levels ABOVE 2019 at a minimum to hope for breakeven or a profit.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some readers may be wondering about the Writer&#39;s Guild strike now underway. It will not have any effect for a year or more. Film scripts are written years before pre-production even begins in most cases. Television is a completely different thing. The strike will have immediate effects on those shows. But not films.</p><h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">What to do</h2><p style=\"text-align: left;\">The net drop to cash in 1Q23 was reported as $135.9 million. Unless Adam Aron can stop the bleeding AMC will run out of cash by year-end. The drop in cash and equivalents from June 30, 2021 when it was at $1.811 billion to under $500 million now should be alarming to any investor. But companies like AMC cannot wait until cash completely runs out to take action. Companies like AMC need cash to continue operations while going through the Chapter 11 process. I believe AMC would have an excellent chance of survival after Chapter 11 for several reasons. First, all debt gets renegotiated. Second, current shareholders get wiped out making room to raise fresh cash from new investors. After being able to get the debt burden off its back AMC, under new management, should flourish just as I expect Cineworld to do.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">With the odds growing rapidly that AMC may have to file for Chapter 11 protection, this author believes it would be a terrible idea for current investors to sink any additional funds into this stock, or for others to consider buying shares until after the company exits a Chapter 11 filing.</p><p><em>This article is written by </em><strong><em>Donn Bailey</em></strong><em> for reference only. 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AMC continues to be unable to do that.J. Michael Jones/iStock Editorial via Getty ImagesThe theatrical industry outlook is still bleakWhile Adam Aron, AMC Entertainment Holdings' (NYSE:AMC) CEO loves to tout the latest blockbuster release, theatres worldwide cannot survive on just blockbuster films alone. Despite a great slate of hit films post-pandemic in 2022 and 2023, the bottom line for operators is just not improving fast enough.Cineworld Group plc, one of the largest theater operators in the world filed for Chapter 11 last year. The U.S. Bankruptcy court approved the company's post-bankruptcy plan last month. Cineworld operates theater chain Regal Cinemas here in the U.S.A. As part of the plan Cineworld will cut $4.53 billion in debt, wipe out existing shareholders, and transfer ownership of the company to its lenders.How long will it be before AMC suffers the same fate? If we take a serious look at the numbers, I believe Adam Aron may be forced to take his company down the same path as Cineworld before the end of the year, possibly as soon as Q3 of this year.Here is why I see this as a real possibility. Let's look at a graph of AMC's annual gross revenues and net income from 2017 through 2022.author (source: AMC financial reports.)From 2017 through 2019, before the pandemic, AMC's revenues were cruising along above $5 billion per year. Then the pandemic hit. Theaters had to shut down in early 2020 and did not reopen until the spring of 2021. 2022 was the first full year of operations since 2019. But as we can see in 2022, revenues were still down over $1.5 billion or 29% from 2019.The bigger problem has been, and continues to be Net Income. As shown in the charts above and below net income has been at, or barely above, break even dating all the way back to 2014. The company's net income plunged in 2020 at a time when the company was low on cash.Data by YChartsBy the grace of the \"meme\" stock craze in January 2021, AMC's cash position rebounded with the sale of millions of additional shares pumping up the cash position to nearly $2 billion that year on the backs of new, small investors driven into believing that a \"MOASS\" (mother of all short squeezes) was imminent. Two and a half years later it still is nowhere in sight.This belief in an imminent short squeeze was based on unfounded rumors of millions of \"naked\" short sales of AMC stock. This is selling shares of a stock you do not own. That promise of this condition that could result in sending the stock price up to $1,000 or as much as $100,000 per share is what drove this small army of investors known as \"Ape\"s to divert their paychecks into AMC shares. Unfortunately, this condition of naked shorts has never been proven to exist. But it helped sell a lot of AMC shares to enthusiastic novice investors.Since the height of the \"Meme\" craze, the cash has continued to burn down every quarter. For the first time since the end of 2020 cash and equivalents fell below $500 million as you can see in the next chart.Data by YChartsNow you may ask why is this a problem if the cash on hand was very low between 2014 and 2019? During those years the net income losses were very small while revenues were very high, as you can see in the top chart. But when revenues decline, you do not have as much cash moving through the company. That can put pressure on timely payments.Further complicating the situation is the expansion program Adam Aron started in 2016 increasing the total number of theaters. In doing so, AMC took on huge amounts of debt. Then came the pandemic and AMC borrowed $billions more to keep the company afloat.Data by YChartsIn the next chart below, you can see how the quarterly debt payments have tripled since 2017. Despite a reduction in total long term liabilities starting in 2021, quarterly interest payments continue to increase; up to $101.1 million in 1Q23. That's an increase of $8.7 million QoQ from 4Q22. So reductions in debt are not slowing down the increasing costs of carrying $billions in debt.Data by YChartsWhat is ahead now?I do not see any growth in revenue to boost the totals to the numbers in 2018 and 2019 in the foreseeable future. Despite all the new hit films so far this year, box office numbers are still not improving by much over 2022. The numbers in the next chart cover the first quarter of 2023.April 2023 had a domestic box office of $900 million, just $134 million lower than 2019 thanks to the power of the Super Mario Bros. movie. May 2023 dropped to $773.9 million which lagged 2019 by $304 million. It's too early in the month to get a bead on June.chart (author) (source: Box Office Mojo and AMC financial reports)But what is clear is the second quarter of 2023 will be another net loss for AMC. Investors are hoping for some sort of a bailout with the conversion of AMC's convertible preferred shares (APE) into common shares. Tied to that event is a 1-for-10 reverse split to boost the stock price. The reverse split approved by shareholders in an April vote is a very bad idea in this author's opinion. One of the main reasons so many small investors bought into AMC shares was the low price point before the jump in June 2021 when the shares closed at about $60. Some took their profits and moved on. But in reading postings in different forums like Reddit, many Apes are still holding onto huge losses and refusing to sell.The jump in price in June 2021 was fueled by the \"MOASS\" everyone thought was starting. It however rapidly fizzled and the stock price has been in decline ever since. It has had a few upward spurts in price in the last 2 years but each one was lower in price and very short duration.The low stock price continues to attract current small investors trying to lower their average cost per share. Driving the price back up to 10x times the current $4.59 with the expected reverse split could force small investors to stop buying shares. That is something AMC will desperately need to try to replenish their cash coffers. But I fail to see why anyone would buy more shares at 10 times the current price when net income continues to be negative. I can't see new investors being willing to continue to feed the AMC cash firepit. If AMC was barely profitable once in a while pre-pandemic, today's higher interest rates on their debt and costs of doing business would require revenue levels ABOVE 2019 at a minimum to hope for breakeven or a profit.Some readers may be wondering about the Writer's Guild strike now underway. It will not have any effect for a year or more. Film scripts are written years before pre-production even begins in most cases. Television is a completely different thing. The strike will have immediate effects on those shows. But not films.What to doThe net drop to cash in 1Q23 was reported as $135.9 million. Unless Adam Aron can stop the bleeding AMC will run out of cash by year-end. The drop in cash and equivalents from June 30, 2021 when it was at $1.811 billion to under $500 million now should be alarming to any investor. But companies like AMC cannot wait until cash completely runs out to take action. Companies like AMC need cash to continue operations while going through the Chapter 11 process. I believe AMC would have an excellent chance of survival after Chapter 11 for several reasons. First, all debt gets renegotiated. Second, current shareholders get wiped out making room to raise fresh cash from new investors. After being able to get the debt burden off its back AMC, under new management, should flourish just as I expect Cineworld to do.With the odds growing rapidly that AMC may have to file for Chapter 11 protection, this author believes it would be a terrible idea for current investors to sink any additional funds into this stock, or for others to consider buying shares until after the company exits a Chapter 11 filing.This article is written by Donn Bailey for reference only. 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It’s a clear sign that the bottom is finally falling out of the meme stock frenzy.</p><p>We know you probably haven’t bought these speculative stocks before… and that you likely never will. But in case you have, here are five meme stocks to sell while you still can.</p><h2>1. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MULN\">Mullen Automotive</a> (MULN): A Meme Stock Collapses</h2><p>In January, I wrote how electric vehicle startup <strong>Mullen Automotive</strong> (NASDAQ: <strong>MULN</strong>) had become the new Dogecoin (<strong><u>DOGE-USD</u></strong>) with none of the fun. Fans of the zero-revenue company seemed more interested in proving how right they were about the stock than making money.</p><p>It took a 1-for-25 reverse stock split on May 4 for others to feel the same way. Suddenly, former fanatics began realizing that management seemed more committed to enriching insiders than rewarding external shareholders. For many, the reverse split turned out to be the last straw.</p><p>InvestorPlace.com Assistant News Writer Eddie Pan has been carefully documenting the precipitous fall in Mullen’s share price. David Moadel has also recently published a piece warning investors to get out immediately. As the world’s top meme stock continues to drown in dilutive stock, don’t be surprised if the firm declares bankruptcy sooner than expected.</p><h2>2. Plug Power (PLUG): Trying New Tactics</h2><p>Shares of once-promising <strong>Plug Power</strong> (NASDAQ: <strong>PLUG</strong>) have fallen by a third this year as competition heats up in the green energy space. As Louis Navellier and his team noted earlier this month for InvestorPlace.com:</p><blockquote>Let’s be frank about this. There are plenty of businesses out there already, including some publicly traded ones, that are already in the EV charging business. Plug Power won’t be a first, second or third mover in this highly competitive field.</blockquote><p>Essentially, Plug Power’s hydrogen fuel cell technology is quickly falling behind lithium-ion technologies. Attempts to escape into EV charging expose the firm to competition from better-funded rivals.</p><p>Retail investors are also beginning to abandon the stock. According to data from Fintel, the estimated share of retail investors has fallen by a third since October. Shares are down 30% since January, and Louis continues to warn investors to stay away.</p><h2>3. Lordstown Motors (RIDE): A Slow Flameout</h2><p>Often, meme stock investors stick around for longer than you might expect.</p><p>In 2020, as we reported at InvestorPlace.com, the Ohio-based <strong>Lordstown Motors</strong> (NASDAQ: <strong>RIDE</strong>) looked ready to fall to $0. The electric pickup startup was using inflated figures to hide the lack of any meaningful preorders and was “selling pickups to Wall Street instead of Main Street.” The short sellers at <strong>Hindenburg Research</strong> would publish a similar critique four months later.</p><p>It would take another two years for RIDE shares to sink below $1, which happened this March. And then, things got even worse. By May, shares had collapsed to 28 cents, forcing the firm to reverse-split its shares. The acceleration of Lordstown’s fall has been closely documented by William White at InvestorPlace.com.</p><p>Recent market data from Fintel shows us that available shares for sorting have fallen to near zero as short sellers outnumber buyers. History tells us these events are highly bearish signs, and retail investors are, for once, beginning to listen.</p><h2>4. Pepe Coin (PEPE-USD): Mixing Memes and Madness</h2><p>In early May, prices of meme cryptocurrency <strong>Pepe Coin</strong> (<strong>PEPE-USD</strong>) rose 20-fold on speculative purchasing. Its unrelated BRC-20 token would see even greater percentage gains.</p><p>But as we know… easy come, easy go.</p><p>Omor Ibne Ehsan was quick to document at InvestorPlace.com how meme coins – especially Pepe – “are not worth it, especially not near their peak.”</p><blockquote>I’ve seen this story before with other meme coins. Dogecoin, the original dog-themed meme coin, has crashed over 88% since its peak. <strong>Apecoin</strong> (<strong>APE-USD</strong>), another meme coin that I warned about a few months after its launch, has virtually stopped being relevant after dropping 91.5%-plus from its all-time high. Pepe is a sell, as it offers no long-term potential and is likely to keep sliding downwards.</blockquote><p>Interest in meme coins has continued to sputter, suggesting Pepe Coin will continue to fall. Full turnover of the meme coin’s market capitalization now takes around four days, up from 20 hours earlier this month. Ethereum transaction fees – which spiked in early May on speculative meme coin trading – are down 50%.</p><p>To most investors, Pepe would seem like an obvious dud. But with a $500 million market capitalization, there’s surely more downside to be had.</p><h2>5. AMC (AMC): Dethroning the King of the Apes</h2><p>Finally, retail investors are beginning to lose interest in <strong>AMC Entertainment</strong> (NYSE: <strong>AMC</strong>), one of the biggest meme stocks of all. The cinema chain has seen a rapid decline in retail ownership this year, as noted by Fintel. Estimated retail ownership has declined by about 50% since December and is 70% lower than it was this time last year.</p><p>Over at InvestorPlace.com, David Moadel and Eddie Pan have also been documenting sales by institutional investors. Recent filings reveal that <strong>Bridgewater Associates</strong> sold its entire AMC position during this year’s first quarter, while Antara Capital dumped 2 million units of <strong>AMC Preferred Equity Units</strong> (NYSE: <strong><u>APE</u></strong>).</p><p>One major cause is the upcoming merge between AMC’s common stock with its APE preferred shares. The dilutive event has been stalled by Delaware courts, leaving fundraising efforts in limbo.</p><p>This will leave America’s largest theater chain with limited cash in the near term. The company is already down to $496 million in liquidity, down from $1.2 billion last June. Unless the firm can raise fresh equity capital soon, CEO Adam Aron will be forced to turn back to the debt markets that almost sank the firm once before.</p><p>Investors once hoped that AMC could consolidate the industry and become a rare meme-stock success story. Waning interest from primate-themed investors is now throwing that into question.</p><h2>The School of Hard Knocks</h2><p>Every experienced investor will have a story of their worst investment. Warren Buffett himself admitted in 2007 that his investment in no-moat Dexter Shoes was an utter disaster.</p><blockquote>I’ll make more mistakes in the future – you can bet on that. A line from Bobby Bare’s country song explains what too often happens with acquisitions: “I’ve never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I’ve sure woke up with a few.”</blockquote><p>Nevertheless, top investors all learn from their mistakes. Buffett now rarely uses <strong>Berkshire Hathaway </strong>(NYSE: <strong><u>BRK-A</u></strong>, NYSE:<strong><u>BRK-B</u></strong>) stock to fund deals, knowing these stock-for-stock deals will compound any problems.</p><p>After more than two years of meme madness, retail investors also finally seem to be learning from their mistakes. Turnover and ownership in these speculative assets are down 50% or more, and we have noticed a clear change in sentiment from our readers.</p><p>It’s surely been an expensive lesson. Companies like Bed Bath &amp; Beyond destroyed billions of shareholder value toward the end of their existence. But all experienced investors know that the School of Hard Knocks never comes cheap.</p></body></html>","source":"investorplace","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>5 Meme Stocks to Sell Immediately</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\">\n5 Meme Stocks to Sell Immediately\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-06-02 23:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2023/05/5-meme-stocks-to-sell-immediately/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>When I needed a new vacuum cleaner last month, I knew exactly where to go:Bed Bath & Beyond (OTCMKTS:BBBYQ).The New Jersey-based retailer, which filed for Chapter 11 on April 23, had been on ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2023/05/5-meme-stocks-to-sell-immediately/\">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","MULN":"Mullen Automotive","PLUG":"普拉格能源"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2023/05/5-meme-stocks-to-sell-immediately/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2340240566","content_text":"When I needed a new vacuum cleaner last month, I knew exactly where to go:Bed Bath & Beyond (OTCMKTS:BBBYQ).The New Jersey-based retailer, which filed for Chapter 11 on April 23, had been on bankruptcy watch since February when creditors and suppliers began yanking liquidity. We’d all seen this story before, and InvestorPlace.com writer Thomas Niel pulled no punches in an analysis a couple of weeks before BBBY’s bankruptcy filing.Time to use those expiring coupons!At the time, many retail investors seemed entirely caught off guard. Meme investors were still buying until the very end, and some are still holding on.“I think that Bed Bath & Beyond, even in bankruptcy, is one of the best deals in the stock market,” one 25-year-old investor said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal earlier this month. The newspaper noted how many BBBY investors remain committed, even as shares moved onto the over-the-counter (OTC) exchange.Nevertheless, we’ve begun noticing a shift away from meme stocks and iffy cryptos. Our editor’s inbox has seen an uptick in readers thanking us for bearish takes (a rarity!), and articles like Omor Ibne Ehsan’s “3 Cryptos to Sell in May and Go Away” have received heavy readership. It’s a clear sign that the bottom is finally falling out of the meme stock frenzy.We know you probably haven’t bought these speculative stocks before… and that you likely never will. But in case you have, here are five meme stocks to sell while you still can.1. Mullen Automotive (MULN): A Meme Stock CollapsesIn January, I wrote how electric vehicle startup Mullen Automotive (NASDAQ: MULN) had become the new Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) with none of the fun. Fans of the zero-revenue company seemed more interested in proving how right they were about the stock than making money.It took a 1-for-25 reverse stock split on May 4 for others to feel the same way. Suddenly, former fanatics began realizing that management seemed more committed to enriching insiders than rewarding external shareholders. For many, the reverse split turned out to be the last straw.InvestorPlace.com Assistant News Writer Eddie Pan has been carefully documenting the precipitous fall in Mullen’s share price. David Moadel has also recently published a piece warning investors to get out immediately. As the world’s top meme stock continues to drown in dilutive stock, don’t be surprised if the firm declares bankruptcy sooner than expected.2. Plug Power (PLUG): Trying New TacticsShares of once-promising Plug Power (NASDAQ: PLUG) have fallen by a third this year as competition heats up in the green energy space. As Louis Navellier and his team noted earlier this month for InvestorPlace.com:Let’s be frank about this. There are plenty of businesses out there already, including some publicly traded ones, that are already in the EV charging business. Plug Power won’t be a first, second or third mover in this highly competitive field.Essentially, Plug Power’s hydrogen fuel cell technology is quickly falling behind lithium-ion technologies. Attempts to escape into EV charging expose the firm to competition from better-funded rivals.Retail investors are also beginning to abandon the stock. According to data from Fintel, the estimated share of retail investors has fallen by a third since October. Shares are down 30% since January, and Louis continues to warn investors to stay away.3. Lordstown Motors (RIDE): A Slow FlameoutOften, meme stock investors stick around for longer than you might expect.In 2020, as we reported at InvestorPlace.com, the Ohio-based Lordstown Motors (NASDAQ: RIDE) looked ready to fall to $0. The electric pickup startup was using inflated figures to hide the lack of any meaningful preorders and was “selling pickups to Wall Street instead of Main Street.” The short sellers at Hindenburg Research would publish a similar critique four months later.It would take another two years for RIDE shares to sink below $1, which happened this March. And then, things got even worse. By May, shares had collapsed to 28 cents, forcing the firm to reverse-split its shares. The acceleration of Lordstown’s fall has been closely documented by William White at InvestorPlace.com.Recent market data from Fintel shows us that available shares for sorting have fallen to near zero as short sellers outnumber buyers. History tells us these events are highly bearish signs, and retail investors are, for once, beginning to listen.4. Pepe Coin (PEPE-USD): Mixing Memes and MadnessIn early May, prices of meme cryptocurrency Pepe Coin (PEPE-USD) rose 20-fold on speculative purchasing. Its unrelated BRC-20 token would see even greater percentage gains.But as we know… easy come, easy go.Omor Ibne Ehsan was quick to document at InvestorPlace.com how meme coins – especially Pepe – “are not worth it, especially not near their peak.”I’ve seen this story before with other meme coins. Dogecoin, the original dog-themed meme coin, has crashed over 88% since its peak. Apecoin (APE-USD), another meme coin that I warned about a few months after its launch, has virtually stopped being relevant after dropping 91.5%-plus from its all-time high. Pepe is a sell, as it offers no long-term potential and is likely to keep sliding downwards.Interest in meme coins has continued to sputter, suggesting Pepe Coin will continue to fall. Full turnover of the meme coin’s market capitalization now takes around four days, up from 20 hours earlier this month. Ethereum transaction fees – which spiked in early May on speculative meme coin trading – are down 50%.To most investors, Pepe would seem like an obvious dud. But with a $500 million market capitalization, there’s surely more downside to be had.5. AMC (AMC): Dethroning the King of the ApesFinally, retail investors are beginning to lose interest in AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC), one of the biggest meme stocks of all. The cinema chain has seen a rapid decline in retail ownership this year, as noted by Fintel. Estimated retail ownership has declined by about 50% since December and is 70% lower than it was this time last year.Over at InvestorPlace.com, David Moadel and Eddie Pan have also been documenting sales by institutional investors. Recent filings reveal that Bridgewater Associates sold its entire AMC position during this year’s first quarter, while Antara Capital dumped 2 million units of AMC Preferred Equity Units (NYSE: APE).One major cause is the upcoming merge between AMC’s common stock with its APE preferred shares. The dilutive event has been stalled by Delaware courts, leaving fundraising efforts in limbo.This will leave America’s largest theater chain with limited cash in the near term. The company is already down to $496 million in liquidity, down from $1.2 billion last June. Unless the firm can raise fresh equity capital soon, CEO Adam Aron will be forced to turn back to the debt markets that almost sank the firm once before.Investors once hoped that AMC could consolidate the industry and become a rare meme-stock success story. Waning interest from primate-themed investors is now throwing that into question.The School of Hard KnocksEvery experienced investor will have a story of their worst investment. Warren Buffett himself admitted in 2007 that his investment in no-moat Dexter Shoes was an utter disaster.I’ll make more mistakes in the future – you can bet on that. A line from Bobby Bare’s country song explains what too often happens with acquisitions: “I’ve never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I’ve sure woke up with a few.”Nevertheless, top investors all learn from their mistakes. Buffett now rarely uses Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A, NYSE:BRK-B) stock to fund deals, knowing these stock-for-stock deals will compound any problems.After more than two years of meme madness, retail investors also finally seem to be learning from their mistakes. Turnover and ownership in these speculative assets are down 50% or more, and we have noticed a clear change in sentiment from our readers.It’s surely been an expensive lesson. Companies like Bed Bath & Beyond destroyed billions of shareholder value toward the end of their existence. 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