AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show

42
20
Favorite

AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show

seekingalpha2021-05-31

Summary AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down. While the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...

Source Link

Disclaimer: Investing carries risk. This is not financial advice. The above content should not be regarded as an offer, recommendation, or solicitation on acquiring or disposing of any financial products, any associated discussions, comments, or posts by author or other users should not be considered as such either. It is solely for general information purpose only, which does not consider your own investment objectives, financial situations or needs. TTM assumes no responsibility or warranty for the accuracy and completeness of the information, investors should do their own research and may seek professional advice before investing.

Report

Comment（20）

Jo5tarz
·2021-06-01
HFs cooking up banana stories again, we Apes aren't stupid banana
Reply
1
Report
peggy85
·2021-05-31
ok
Reply
Like
Report
Greenbull18
·2021-05-31
Cool
Reply
Like
Report
mentaikokeke
·2021-05-31
mhmm interesting
Reply
Like
Report
Fold Replies
- Naixin:
  Yes
  2021-05-31
  Reply
  Report
miaomee
·2021-05-31
Is this worth it? Please comment [財迷] [財迷] [疑問] [疑問] [疑問]
Reply
1
Report
Fold Replies
- Grabdiamond:
  Buy buy
  2021-05-31
  Reply
  Report
DarrylWong
·2021-05-31
interesting
Reply
1
Report
Fold Replies
- Menghui:
  Comment back
  2021-05-31
  Reply
  Report
- miaomee:
  Please like and comment
  2021-05-31
  Reply
  Report
Stonker
·2021-05-31
Diamond hands pls...the hedgies are worried...AMC is the trst case warm up for the hedgies to the BIG MOASS coming up for GME...HODL and GIVE 'em HELL do not save their tears...prepare to gouge the hedgies like what the hedgies used to do to retail investors...hedgies are shitload scared....very scared...send ken the can to beg
Reply
1
Report
Fold Replies
- Jo5tarz:
  Power to the Apes!
  2021-06-01
  Reply
  Report
Shirron
·2021-05-31
Be caution
Reply
Like
Report
Fold Replies
- DarrylWong:
  pls like and comment
  2021-05-31
  Reply
  Report
Stonker
·2021-05-31
Seeking Alpha has been paid to talk down the shitshow...they've long ago sold their soul to the devil hedgies to write stuff to be paid to influence fear amongst the retail crowd...dont ever fall for their shitstuff...HODL and see ya on the Moon yes sirree!
Reply
2
Report
Ericchua
·2021-05-31
Lol
Reply
Like
Report
Ericchua
·2021-05-31
Yeah
Reply
Like
Report
Stonker
·2021-05-31
Get ready for ONE BIG MOVIE SHOW right on your trading screen with AMC after Memorial Day today...futures positions are telling you the obvious - going for broke - all or nothing this week target price $38 then $45
Reply
3
Report
Fold Replies
- Terencecino:
  To the moon!
  2021-06-01
  Reply
  Report
kennylo1125
·2021-05-31
Still can up?
Reply
Like
Report
imsomeonelse
·2021-05-31
Don’t play with fire boys
Reply
Like
Report
Kentlieu
·2021-05-31
Meme
Reply
Like
Report
Fold Replies
- 88_TWB_88:
  Comment & like thks
  2021-05-31
  Reply
  Report
justinC
·2021-05-31
Ndndkdn
Reply
Like
Report
Fold Replies
- justinC:
  bxbdbj
  2021-05-31
  Reply
  Report
justinC
·2021-05-31
Yass
Reply
Like
Report
Alvinlsm
·2021-05-31
Pls comment and like
Reply
2
Report
Fold Replies
- JiaLe:
  Comment back plwaae
  2021-05-31
  Reply
  Report
scenichu
·2021-05-31
[LOL] [Spurting]
Reply
Like
Report
Fold Replies
- 88_TWB_88:
  Comment & like thks
  2021-05-31
  Reply
  Report
pingabc
·2021-05-31
Please like and comment thanks
Reply
2
Report
Fold Replies
- Alvinlsm:
  Ok
  2021-05-31
  Reply
  Report

Most Discussed

7x24

All

Terms and Conditions·Privacy Policy

Company: TTMF Limited. Tech supported by Xiangshang Yixin.

Email：uservice@ttm.financial

{"i18n":{"language":"en_US"},"data":{"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","thumbnail":"","is_english":true,"pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","id":"1117895410","market":"us","top_or_hot":-1,"title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","media":"seekingalpha","content":"<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">Source Link</a>\n\n</div>\n","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">Source Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","isBrief":false,"type":0,"news_type":1,"symbol":"AMC","symbol_name":"AMC院线","start_time":0,"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","article_id":"1117895410","we_media_id":null,"thumbnails":[],"rights":null,"url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"columns":[],"sourceInfo":{"source_id":"seekingalpha","name":"Seeking Alpha"},"weMediaInfo":null,"summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","collect":0,"end_time":0,"defaultTopTitle":"seekingalpha.com","property":[],"viewcount":null,"language":"en","relate_stocks":{"AMC":"AMC院线"},"translate_title":"AMC：投资者应该袖手旁观","themeId":null,"isJumpTheme":false,"ttsUrl":null,"symbols_score_info":{"AMC":0.9},"content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","kind":"news","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":1},"commentList":[{"id":119360396,"gmtCreate":1622520123815,"gmtModify":1704185538451,"author":{"id":"3566111551860327","authorId":"3566111551860327","name":"Jo5tarz","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8cdaa131f223c2f17b3669bce62cc05e","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f84d87792f02cf78e80ee34979fd31e5","crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3566111551860327","authorIdStr":"3566111551860327"},"htmlText":"HFs cooking up banana&nbsp;stories again, we Apes&nbsp;aren't stupid banana&nbsp;","listText":"HFs cooking up banana&nbsp;stories again, we Apes&nbsp;aren't stupid banana&nbsp;","text":"HFs cooking up banana stories again, we Apes aren't stupid banana","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/119360396","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110556439,"gmtCreate":1622471767721,"gmtModify":1704184893836,"author":{"id":"3581811291499435","authorId":"3581811291499435","name":"peggy85","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e664ba5e10199decb88d9dc807352693","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581811291499435","authorIdStr":"3581811291499435"},"htmlText":"ok","listText":"ok","text":"ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110556439","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110524912,"gmtCreate":1622471036836,"gmtModify":1704184882880,"author":{"id":"3582021842674964","authorId":"3582021842674964","name":"Greenbull18","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/576bc95bff9dffadad04639941613d8e","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582021842674964","authorIdStr":"3582021842674964"},"htmlText":"Cool","listText":"Cool","text":"Cool","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110524912","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110580423,"gmtCreate":1622468539362,"gmtModify":1704184843375,"author":{"id":"3584613057927706","authorId":"3584613057927706","name":"mentaikokeke","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3584613057927706","authorIdStr":"3584613057927706"},"htmlText":"mhmm interesting&nbsp;","listText":"mhmm interesting&nbsp;","text":"mhmm interesting","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110580423","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4519315,"gmtCreate":1622470751219,"gmtModify":1680792205434,"authorId":3584237259744368,"author":{"id":3584237259744368,"idStr":"3584237259744368","authorId":3584237259744368,"name":"Naixin","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b467a57b3598327ee1aed4e36d7717a5","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110580423,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Yes","text":"Yes","html":"Yes"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110507899,"gmtCreate":1622466568711,"gmtModify":1704184799911,"author":{"id":"3569375896365334","authorId":"3569375896365334","name":"miaomee","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fd309d5a46384576888494b61b0e5953","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3569375896365334","authorIdStr":"3569375896365334"},"htmlText":"Is this worth it?&nbsp; Please comment&nbsp;[財迷]&nbsp;[財迷]&nbsp;[疑問]&nbsp;[疑問]&nbsp;[疑問]&nbsp;","listText":"Is this worth it?&nbsp; Please comment&nbsp;[財迷]&nbsp;[財迷]&nbsp;[疑問]&nbsp;[疑問]&nbsp;[疑問]&nbsp;","text":"Is this worth it? Please comment [財迷] [財迷] [疑問] [疑問] [疑問]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110507899","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4519353,"gmtCreate":1622471085084,"gmtModify":1680792204418,"authorId":3581497141923960,"author":{"id":3581497141923960,"idStr":"3581497141923960","authorId":3581497141923960,"name":"Grabdiamond","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/10e3dcf66896be3e67e1ca4c0a38354b","vip":1,"currentWearingBadge":{"badgeId":"1026c425416b44e0aac28c11a0848493-2","templateUuid":"1026c425416b44e0aac28c11a0848493","name":"Senior Tiger","description":"Join the tiger community for 1000 days","bigImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0063fb68ea29c9ae6858c58630e182d5","smallImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/96c699a93be4214d4b49aea6a5a5d1a4","grayImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/35b0e542a9ff77046ed69ef602bc105d","redirectLinkEnabled":0,"hasAllocated":1,"isWearing":1,"stampPosition":0,"hasStamp":0,"allocationCount":1,"allocatedDate":"2024.01.10","individualDisplayEnabled":0,"individualDisplaySort":0,"categoryType":1001},"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110507899,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Buy buy","text":"Buy buy","html":"Buy buy"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":110272763,"gmtCreate":1622465516252,"gmtModify":1704184783361,"author":{"id":"3580190462625568","authorId":"3580190462625568","name":"DarrylWong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8e4b82d595be883bcd8e099845c3f407","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3580190462625568","authorIdStr":"3580190462625568"},"htmlText":"interesting","listText":"interesting","text":"interesting","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110272763","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4518751,"gmtCreate":1622467696173,"gmtModify":1680792197076,"authorId":3573208750244335,"author":{"id":3573208750244335,"idStr":"3573208750244335","authorId":3573208750244335,"name":"Menghui","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/78313b2880982008ec8b550c3e213dd7","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110272763,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Comment back","text":"Comment back","html":"Comment back"},{"id":4518557,"gmtCreate":1622466593321,"gmtModify":1680792191629,"authorId":3569375896365334,"author":{"id":3569375896365334,"idStr":"3569375896365334","authorId":3569375896365334,"name":"miaomee","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fd309d5a46384576888494b61b0e5953","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110272763,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Please like and comment","text":"Please like and comment","html":"Please like and comment"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110249474,"gmtCreate":1622463930398,"gmtModify":1704184763748,"author":{"id":"3575285094262582","authorId":"3575285094262582","name":"Stonker","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/30eb7dc58172a5e840d654113620cc49","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3575285094262582","authorIdStr":"3575285094262582"},"htmlText":"Diamond hands pls...the hedgies are worried...AMC is the trst case warm up for the hedgies&nbsp;to the BIG MOASS coming up for GME...HODL and GIVE 'em HELL do not save their tears...prepare to gouge the hedgies&nbsp;like what the hedgies used to do to retail investors...hedgies are shitload scared....very scared...send ken the can to beg","listText":"Diamond hands pls...the hedgies are worried...AMC is the trst case warm up for the hedgies&nbsp;to the BIG MOASS coming up for GME...HODL and GIVE 'em HELL do not save their tears...prepare to gouge the hedgies&nbsp;like what the hedgies used to do to retail investors...hedgies are shitload scared....very scared...send ken the can to beg","text":"Diamond hands pls...the hedgies are worried...AMC is the trst case warm up for the hedgies to the BIG MOASS coming up for GME...HODL and GIVE 'em HELL do not save their tears...prepare to gouge the hedgies like what the hedgies used to do to retail investors...hedgies are shitload scared....very scared...send ken the can to beg","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110249474","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4525942,"gmtCreate":1622520171557,"gmtModify":1680792320687,"authorId":3566111551860327,"author":{"id":3566111551860327,"idStr":"3566111551860327","authorId":3566111551860327,"name":"Jo5tarz","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8cdaa131f223c2f17b3669bce62cc05e","vip":1,"currentWearingBadge":{"badgeId":"972123088c9646f7b6091ae0662215be-3","templateUuid":"972123088c9646f7b6091ae0662215be","name":"Legendary Trader","description":"Total number of securities or futures transactions reached 300","bigImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/656db16598a0b8f21429e10d6c1cb033","smallImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/03f10910d4dd9234f9b5702a3342193a","grayImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0c767e35268feb729d50d3fa9a386c5a","redirectLinkEnabled":0,"hasAllocated":1,"isWearing":1,"stampPosition":0,"hasStamp":0,"allocationCount":1,"allocatedDate":"2021.12.28","exceedPercentage":"93.94%","individualDisplayEnabled":0,"individualDisplaySort":0,"categoryType":1100},"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110249474,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>Power</u> to the Apes!","text":"<u>Power</u> to the Apes!","html":"<u>Power</u> to the Apes!"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110240280,"gmtCreate":1622463771440,"gmtModify":1704184761612,"author":{"id":"3580341549267327","authorId":"3580341549267327","name":"Shirron","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/df7d4c61495981213747b5b050907306","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3580341549267327","authorIdStr":"3580341549267327"},"htmlText":"Be caution&nbsp;","listText":"Be caution&nbsp;","text":"Be caution","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110240280","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4518406,"gmtCreate":1622465543675,"gmtModify":1680792189053,"authorId":3580190462625568,"author":{"id":3580190462625568,"idStr":"3580190462625568","authorId":3580190462625568,"name":"DarrylWong","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8e4b82d595be883bcd8e099845c3f407","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110240280,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"pls like and comment","text":"pls like and comment","html":"pls like and comment"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110240130,"gmtCreate":1622463683920,"gmtModify":1704184761119,"author":{"id":"3575285094262582","authorId":"3575285094262582","name":"Stonker","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/30eb7dc58172a5e840d654113620cc49","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3575285094262582","authorIdStr":"3575285094262582"},"htmlText":"Seeking Alpha has been paid to talk down the shitshow...they've long ago sold their soul to the devil hedgies to write stuff to be paid to influence fear amongst the retail crowd...dont ever fall for their shitstuff...HODL and see ya on the Moon yes sirree!","listText":"Seeking Alpha has been paid to talk down the shitshow...they've long ago sold their soul to the devil hedgies to write stuff to be paid to influence fear amongst the retail crowd...dont ever fall for their shitstuff...HODL and see ya on the Moon yes sirree!","text":"Seeking Alpha has been paid to talk down the shitshow...they've long ago sold their soul to the devil hedgies to write stuff to be paid to influence fear amongst the retail crowd...dont ever fall for their shitstuff...HODL and see ya on the Moon yes sirree!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110240130","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110240345,"gmtCreate":1622463661787,"gmtModify":1704184761283,"author":{"id":"3570610929197614","authorId":"3570610929197614","name":"Ericchua","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0f61f258ab39d68b19f4e591fe8cd03e","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3570610929197614","authorIdStr":"3570610929197614"},"htmlText":"Lol","listText":"Lol","text":"Lol","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110240345","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110257537,"gmtCreate":1622463598429,"gmtModify":1704184760128,"author":{"id":"3570610929197614","authorId":"3570610929197614","name":"Ericchua","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0f61f258ab39d68b19f4e591fe8cd03e","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3570610929197614","authorIdStr":"3570610929197614"},"htmlText":"Yeah","listText":"Yeah","text":"Yeah","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110257537","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110257842,"gmtCreate":1622463545786,"gmtModify":1704184759466,"author":{"id":"3575285094262582","authorId":"3575285094262582","name":"Stonker","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/30eb7dc58172a5e840d654113620cc49","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3575285094262582","authorIdStr":"3575285094262582"},"htmlText":"Get ready for ONE BIG MOVIE SHOW right on your trading screen with AMC after Memorial Day today...futures positions are telling you the obvious - going for broke - all or nothing this week target price $38 then $45","listText":"Get ready for ONE BIG MOVIE SHOW right on your trading screen with AMC after Memorial Day today...futures positions are telling you the obvious - going for broke - all or nothing this week target price $38 then $45","text":"Get ready for ONE BIG MOVIE SHOW right on your trading screen with AMC after Memorial Day today...futures positions are telling you the obvious - going for broke - all or nothing this week target price $38 then $45","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110257842","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4525092,"gmtCreate":1622515199841,"gmtModify":1680792308768,"authorId":3582621734355797,"author":{"id":3582621734355797,"idStr":"3582621734355797","authorId":3582621734355797,"name":"Terencecino","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c10e56060ac2fd657f71b3866495a427","vip":1,"currentWearingBadge":{"badgeId":"972123088c9646f7b6091ae0662215be-2","templateUuid":"972123088c9646f7b6091ae0662215be","name":"Master Trader","description":"Total number of securities or futures transactions reached 100","bigImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ad22cfbe2d05aa393b18e9226e4b0307","smallImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/36702e6ff3ffe46acafee66cc85273ca","grayImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d52eb88fa385cf5abe2616ed63781765","redirectLinkEnabled":0,"hasAllocated":1,"isWearing":1,"stampPosition":0,"hasStamp":0,"allocationCount":1,"allocatedDate":"2022.07.26","exceedPercentage":"80.62%","individualDisplayEnabled":0,"individualDisplaySort":0,"categoryType":1100},"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110257842,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"To the moon!","text":"To the moon!","html":"To the moon!"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110255244,"gmtCreate":1622463400088,"gmtModify":1704184757004,"author":{"id":"3569413640423434","authorId":"3569413640423434","name":"kennylo1125","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9067798dc9e92423972b035fdfbc7d5c","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3569413640423434","authorIdStr":"3569413640423434"},"htmlText":"Still can up?&nbsp;","listText":"Still can up?&nbsp;","text":"Still can up?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110255244","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110258758,"gmtCreate":1622463114374,"gmtModify":1704184753217,"author":{"id":"3572697049328629","authorId":"3572697049328629","name":"imsomeonelse","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/9294e9e7f11f190688efe808098fa12b","vip":1,"crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3572697049328629","authorIdStr":"3572697049328629"},"htmlText":"Don’t play with fire boys","listText":"Don’t play with fire boys","text":"Don’t play with fire boys","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110258758","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110253142,"gmtCreate":1622462960786,"gmtModify":1704184750269,"author":{"id":"3570093481697004","authorId":"3570093481697004","name":"Kentlieu","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ae3ee305e39da5ce2f99805f9a422c93","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3570093481697004","authorIdStr":"3570093481697004"},"htmlText":"Meme&nbsp;","listText":"Meme&nbsp;","text":"Meme","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110253142","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4518138,"gmtCreate":1622463096457,"gmtModify":1680792181570,"authorId":3582503329600891,"author":{"id":3582503329600891,"idStr":"3582503329600891","authorId":3582503329600891,"name":"88_TWB_88","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/00cb7ae6d4c8f5f282b6f3a594a2c648","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110253142,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Comment &amp; like <u>thks</u>","text":"Comment &amp; like <u>thks</u>","html":"Comment &amp; like <u>thks</u>"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110250527,"gmtCreate":1622462791369,"gmtModify":1704184748299,"author":{"id":"3580980349710552","authorId":"3580980349710552","name":"justinC","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b1df8f1b7bfcecfea836a18bee080563","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3580980349710552","authorIdStr":"3580980349710552"},"htmlText":"Ndndkdn","listText":"Ndndkdn","text":"Ndndkdn","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110250527","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4518094,"gmtCreate":1622462797544,"gmtModify":1680792188428,"authorId":3580980349710552,"author":{"id":3580980349710552,"idStr":"3580980349710552","authorId":3580980349710552,"name":"justinC","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b1df8f1b7bfcecfea836a18bee080563","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110250527,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"<u>bxbdbj</u>","text":"<u>bxbdbj</u>","html":"<u>bxbdbj</u>"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110250639,"gmtCreate":1622462783521,"gmtModify":1704184748134,"author":{"id":"3580980349710552","authorId":"3580980349710552","name":"justinC","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b1df8f1b7bfcecfea836a18bee080563","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3580980349710552","authorIdStr":"3580980349710552"},"htmlText":"Yass","listText":"Yass","text":"Yass","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110250639","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110225722,"gmtCreate":1622462597866,"gmtModify":1704184744614,"author":{"id":"3555205227101964","authorId":"3555205227101964","name":"Alvinlsm","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dcf5a2c527c5396558784b0c1c3cd9eb","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"idStr":"3555205227101964","authorIdStr":"3555205227101964"},"htmlText":"Pls comment and like","listText":"Pls comment and like","text":"Pls comment and like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110225722","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4518071,"gmtCreate":1622462656215,"gmtModify":1680792186175,"authorId":3577097645660752,"author":{"id":3577097645660752,"idStr":"3577097645660752","authorId":3577097645660752,"name":"JiaLe","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/24a1ed581cfd6c2dbde8ebd02058830d","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110225722,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Comment back plwaae","text":"Comment back plwaae","html":"Comment back plwaae"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110225222,"gmtCreate":1622462583366,"gmtModify":1704184744453,"author":{"id":"3554951292305587","authorId":"3554951292305587","name":"scenichu","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e2d5eb7de52de2d76f08c9564d26fe90","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3554951292305587","authorIdStr":"3554951292305587"},"htmlText":"[LOL]&nbsp;[Spurting]&nbsp;","listText":"[LOL]&nbsp;[Spurting]&nbsp;","text":"[LOL] [Spurting]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110225222","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4518140,"gmtCreate":1622463110890,"gmtModify":1680792182060,"authorId":3582503329600891,"author":{"id":3582503329600891,"idStr":"3582503329600891","authorId":3582503329600891,"name":"88_TWB_88","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/00cb7ae6d4c8f5f282b6f3a594a2c648","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110225222,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Comment &amp; like <u>thks</u>","text":"Comment &amp; like <u>thks</u>","html":"Comment &amp; like <u>thks</u>"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":110222757,"gmtCreate":1622462530779,"gmtModify":1704184744287,"author":{"id":"3574565348851267","authorId":"3574565348851267","name":"pingabc","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/45ea605ef97ca23c8e578b6576244d74","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b073a07f77dbe6b3bec6b12311fde6bd","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3574565348851267","authorIdStr":"3574565348851267"},"htmlText":"Please like and comment thanks","listText":"Please like and comment thanks","text":"Please like and comment thanks","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/110222757","repostId":1117895410,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1117895410","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1622462233,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1117895410?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-31 19:57","market":"us","language":"en","title":"AMC: Investors Should Sit Out This Show","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1117895410","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump ","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>AMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.</li>\n <li>While the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.</li>\n <li>Quite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.</li>\n <li>The longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.</li>\n <li>Investors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/fc7738a18d02947eefd20e0d17e935df\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1026\"><span>Photo by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>AMC Entertainment Holdings</b>&nbsp;(AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer&nbsp;<b>GameStop</b>&nbsp;(GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.</p>\n<p><b>Recent activity has been fascinating</b></p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.</p>\n<p>Surely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.</p>\n<p><b>Performance has been awful</b></p>\n<p>Over time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its&nbsp;recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.</p>\n<p>Financial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year&nbsp;since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.</p>\n<p>Given the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most&nbsp;recent development&nbsp;was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.</p>\n<p>The picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.</p>\n<p><b>Priced for the best case scenario possible</b></p>\n<p>One fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.</p>\n<p>There is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.</p>\n<p><b>Takeaway</b></p>\n<p>Based on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.</p>","source":"seekingalpha","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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show</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: Investors Should Sit Out This Show\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-31 19:57 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show\">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://seekingalpha.com/article/4432219-amc-investors-should-sit-out-this-show","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1117895410","content_text":"Summary\n\nAMC Entertainment Holdings has been on a wild ride once again recently as speculators pump up the stock and let it crash back down.\nWhile the company was priced too low at one point, it is frankly priced at outrageous levels today.\nQuite frankly it would need to see a 'best-case' scenario arise to justify the kind of valuation it's trading for today.\nThe longer a recovery takes, the less likely this scenario will be to play out.\nInvestors should be very cautious if they decide to buy into this firm.\n\nPhoto by Massimo Giachetti/iStock Editorial via Getty Images\nAMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) is undeniably one of the most fascinating companies on the market today. Amidst what some might refer to as a main street revolt against Wall Street, the movie theater operator finds itself second only to video game retailer GameStop (GME) as ground zero in the conflict. Speculators have sent the shares soaring and tumbling on and off throughout this year even after the company posted a solid return in 2020. While some may say that the company has upside potential from here, that scenario looks highly improbable. Sure, in the short run, the business might see its share price surge higher. But long-term investors watching the action would be well advised to either stay away, or bet against its nonsensical drive higher. Only one scenario could make the company worth more than it is today, but to bet on that outcome is itself speculative in nature.\nRecent activity has been fascinating\nOver the past few weeks, volatility at AMC has picked up again. At the end of April, for instance, shares of the movie theater operator were trading at $10.03 per share. At the close of May 24th, they had risen to close at $13.68. But in just a few days, they nearly tripled from there, briefly touching $36.72 before finally closing at $26.12. This kind of volatility is reminiscent of what the company went through earlier this year. At the end of 2020, shares of the enterprise closed at $2.12 apiece. They then skyrocketed to as high as $20.36 on January 27th.\nSurely, investors who bought in early benefited tremendously. And justifiably so. Shares probably never were appropriately valued around $2 apiece and a high amount of short interest just begging for a squeeze to push units higher. Now, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While management has created some additional value by issuing shares at the market, they have not created enough to make AMC worth even remotely close to what it is trading for today unless we assume a return to normalcy. And even then, units would likely be trading at or near the high end of what can realistically be expected.\nPerformance has been awful\nOver time, a company's share price should come to reflect the value that it creates for its investors. At present, the implied value for a company like AMC is fairly low. Consider, as an example, its recent financial performance. After reporting revenue of $5.47 billion in 2019, this figure dropped to just $1.24 billion in 2020. On the bottom line, the company went from reporting a net loss of $149.1 million to a loss of $4.59 billion. Operating cash flow certainly performed better, but even it suffered tremendously. From 2019 to 2020, this metric declined from a positive $579 million to a negative $1.13 billion. And EBITDA dropped from $771.4 million to -$999.2 million.\nFinancial performance at AMC has not always been this bad. Each year since at least 2016, the company has reported growing revenue. Back in that year, as an example, revenue at the firm was just $3.24 billion. This translates to solid upside, driven in part by acquisition activities the company engaged in. On the other hand, though, the company's bottom line has never been particularly great. The company went from generating a profit of $111.7 million in 2016, to losing $487.2 million in 2017. This popped up into positive territory to the tune of $110.1 million in 2018 before seeing a loss again in 2019 and 2020. Operating cash flow, fortunately, has been more consistent. This metric has risen almost every year, timing from $431.7 million in 2016 to $579 million last year.\nGiven the surge in price that AMC has experienced, investors might think that some fundamental change took place at the business to warrant this upside. However, that was not the case. The most recent development was the announcement by the company that it had issued 43 million shares, bringing in gross proceeds a $428 million. Based on my estimates, this would imply net proceeds of around $417.4 million. While this alone is great, this implies a weighted average share price of less than $10. And, even with it, and if we assume that debt has remained unchanged since the end of the company's first quarter this year, net debt would still be $3.85 billion.\nThe picture might be more attractive if management had some good news to report operationally, but that too has not been the case. Revenue in the first quarter last year came in at $941.5 million. By this year, it had declined 84.2% to $148.3 million. The company's net loss did improve, but its operating cash flow went from -$184 million to -$312.9 million. Though this data is from March, some sources suggest that the movie theater space is recovering at a very slow rate.\nPriced for the best case scenario possible\nOne fact that I think most everyone can agree on is that if business does not improve eventually, AMC will not survive. So instead of analyzing the company from how bad the situation is today, an alternative approach is to analyze what investors should consider the best scenario. Realistically, this would imply a return to the kind of performance the company generated in 2019. Even in that scenario, however, shares do look to be quite pricey. Based on my calculations, the company would be trading at a price to operating cash flow multiple of 22.3. And its EV to EBITDA multiple would stand at about 21.7. If this were a business with low net leverage, that was growing at a rapid pace, and that had attractive margins, this high of a multiple very likely could be realistic. But as I have demonstrated already, AMC was never a stellar operator. This, then, really does point to what could probably be considered a high price point for the company.\nThere is, of course, one way where AMC might fare well. And that would be if management were to issue significantly more stock at current high prices. As an example, issuing another 43 million shares at the price units are at today would get the business another $1.12 billion in cash before factoring in offering costs. In theory, AMC could pull itself out of this mess and become a respectable prospect by doing something like this. But it is unclear how the market will respond to subsequent share offerings and it is unclear whether management has the interest in doing this. At the end of the day, banking on this particular strategy truly is the same is rolling the dice.\nTakeaway\nBased on the data provided, it’s clear that AMC’s future is not looking bright. More likely than not, the company will survive the current crisis. However, a true recovery is certainly many months away, possibly longer. In that timeframe, the firm will continue to burn through cash in order to keep its operations going. This, in turn, will only increase the multiple the companies trading at and to make it even more unappealing. If management were to issue significantly more stock at current prices, this could create a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the business could come to be a reasonable prospect, but even that assumes a complete recovery and that is something that the jury is still out on. It is never a good idea to base your investment decision on a best-case scenario, so because of that, investors would be wise to steer clear for now.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4518051,"gmtCreate":1622462580885,"gmtModify":1680792182775,"authorId":3555205227101964,"author":{"id":3555205227101964,"idStr":"3555205227101964","authorId":3555205227101964,"name":"Alvinlsm","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dcf5a2c527c5396558784b0c1c3cd9eb","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":110222757,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"}],"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":42,"commentSize":20,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}