These are films movie lovers want to watch at the movie theatres, not at home.
This list of incredible films coming out this year are AMC’s arsenal against hedge funds betting against the movie theatre industry, but more specifically against AMC stock.
Will AMC stock price go up?
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AMC stock will go up due to business demand and due to the company having a strong shareholder base that continues to buy and hold the stock.
AMC Entertainment is an American company that’s a part of our culture’s history.
It’s also the number one leading theatre chain company in the world owning approximately 10,562 screens in the United States alone.
In Q1 of 2022, AMC seated more than 39 million guests, a 32 million difference from Q1 of 2021.
AMC Entertainment also earned $785.7 million in revenue during the first quarter, more than five times the revenue in Q1 of 2021 ($148.3m).
The theatre chain ended Q1 with $1.4 billion in liquidity.
CEO Adam Aron hinted Q2 is on track for another groundbreaking quarter for the company.
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AMC movie theatres rise again
AMC movie theatres might have been resurrected by retail investors in 2021, but the company has risen above all adversity post pandemic.
While Wall Street and its media affiliates might have tried to bankrupt the company by shorting the stock, short sellers have another thing coming.
But more on that later.
AMC Entertainment had the best 1st quarter in two years when it exceeded market expectations.
The movie theatre giant saw an impressive $630 million improvement in revenue in Q1 and $233 million in adjusted EBITDA from over a year ago.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness leads Q2 to an incredible start as it became the biggest opening of 2022 and the second largest opening post pandemic to Spider-Man No Way Home.
Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ only further fuels that success for the company.
AMC invests $250 million in state-of-the art laser projectors
CEO and President Adam Aron announced in April AMC movie theatres spent a quarter billion dollars in state-of-the-art laser projectors.
A quarter of a billion dollars were used to upgrade the move theatre experience for avid movie goers, according to the CEO.
AMC Entertainment is switching old projectors for state-of-the-art laser projections.
The laser projections are going to provide guests with much brighter and sharper pictures on screen.
This is also the greenest environmental initiative in AMC’s 102 years, according to Adam.
The investment demonstrates how important the cinema experience is to the company for its guests and shareholders.
AMC movie theatres have already beat earnings from previous years, but now they’re taking the cinema experience to another level.
Shareholder confidence in the company continues to grow as the century old movie theatre chain goes on the offense.
But that’s not all.
AMC Entertainment has also expanded and acquired the highest quality movie theatres in the country.
The acquisition of 7 Bow Tie Cinemas
AMC Entertainment (AMC) acquired seven former Bow Tie Cinemas locations in April.
Five of which are in Connecticut, one in upstate New York, and another one in Annapolis, Maryland.
The new movie theatres in Connecticut will double AMC’s presence in the state.
Bow Tie Cinemas locations that previously served alcohol will continue to offer wine, beer and liquor and be rebranded under AMC’s MacGuffins brand.
While the converted theaters will no longer honor Bow Tie Cinemas Criterion Club rewards, impacted customers who sign up for AMC Stubs with the same email used for their account will be rounded up to the next Criterion Club award they would have received under the program.
Both of which were listed in the top 30 most successful movie theatres in the world.
Wall Street might want the movies dead, but movie theatres aren’t going anywhere.
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AMC stock made the biggest ruckus on Wall Street last year when retail investors drove the stock price to all-time highs through heavy buying pressure.
The community has grown from 3 million to 4 million retail investors.
Now, over 90% of AMC’s float is owned by retail and short sellers still haven’t left.
With a short interest of almost 23%, AMC Entertainment stock continues to be a short squeeze play.
AMC shareholders continue to buy and hold the stock in efforts to drive AMC’s share price to a new all-time high this year.
You can read more about AMC’s short interest, price prediction, and short squeeze data here.
So, although AMC’s share price has come down, shareholders know something corporate media simply won’t talk about.
AMC stock is about to get big again.
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The number of shares on loan are at an all-time high meaning there are now more shares that have to be returned than there were during AMC’s run to $20 and $72 per share.
AMC has the perfect short squeeze setup.
And as the fee rises to short AMC stock, shorts will have to make the decision to either deal with it or close their short positions.
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AMC now has positive EBITDA
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AMC Entertainment announced during their Q4 earnings call that the company now has positive cash flow for the first time in two years.
EBITDA provides investors with a snapshot of a company’s overall financial performance.
AMC currently has a positive net cash flow of $160 million.
Why is this important?
The company almost went bankrupt during the lockdowns during the pandemic.
This is massive progress for any company to stand up after almost being defeated.
It demonstrates the will to succeed.
AMC box office grosses improved each and every quarter of 2020 and 2021 as the number of movie titles increased.
The company hosted approximately 60 million guests in the United States, Europe, and Middle East in Q4 of 2021 alone.
The recovery for AMC has been incredible in such a short period of time.
Now that the company has positive cash flow, AMC Entertainment will be able to provide more value to its guests and shareholders alike.
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AMC Entertainment saw more than $1.8 billion in liquidity its fourth quarter of 2021 and anticipates doubling its revenue this year 2022.
With more movie titles coming to the big screen this new year, CEO and President Adam Aron says the $1.8 billion will provide AMC with more security and flexibility to go on the offense.
AMC Entertainment doesn’t plan on sitting on this money, but rather on using it to play offense and innovate.
Adam Aron says he plans on obtaining licensing agreements to feature live movie concerts and live sports events in theatres.
If you’re betting on AMC long term you might want to become an owner of the company by purchasing the stock.
The company has a strong and loyal shareholder base that even played a major role in resuscitating the company when it faced bankruptcy.
Adam Aron praises his shareholders as they are the majority owners of the company.
It’s a first in history where shareholders have a massive ownership of a company this big.
The CEO communicates with shareholders on Twitter where he takes ideas from the public to better structure certain areas of the company.
The number of AMC shareholder has increased from 3 million last year to now more than 4 million this new year 2022.
Innovation and revenue streams
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AMC Entertainment has really transformed its business model and is now taking form of a modern-type business.
This leading movie industry chain is now accepting cryptocurrencies as a form of online payment for movie theatre tickets, gift cards, and other accessories.
Not only have they cultivated the crypto movement, but the company is also releasing NFTs when new movie titles are released.
With NFTs, AMC Entertainment will earn a royalty every time an NFT is sold or traded in the marketplace.
This opens opportunity in the marketplace for both AMC Entertainment the company and the asset owner.
AMC Perfectly Popcorn brand is on track to hit retail stores and supermarkets this year too.
They will be selling AMC Perfectly Popcorn brand microwavable popcorn at your favorite grocery stores and outlets.
Adam Aron announced during the Q4 earnings call that AMC and UberEATS are working on making it possible to order pre-packaged popcorn for home-delivery services.
So even if you’re not going out to the movies, you can order AMC Perfectly Branded popcorn for that movie night at home.
This is just one way the company is hedging against online streaming.
Once the theatre chain has access to exclusively release live concerts and sports events, the theatrical experience is going to transform how we look at movie theatres today.
Although online streaming has blown up, the theatre experience is something you cannot replicate anywhere else.
And the data has spoken for it.
Does AMC have debt?
AMC Entertainment, like many companies has debt.
However, unlike the previous year when they had debt and negative cash flow, the company has eliminated most of its debt and created positive EBITDA.
AMC paid $61 million of deferred (postponed) rent in Q4 of 2021, reducing their total deferred rent to $315 million.
It reduced a total of $155 million of deferred rent over the last 9 months of 2021.
They plan to reduce the deferred rent by $150-$200 million in 2022 leaving them with $160-$115 million left for 2023.
This amount could be paid in full that same year.
So, while they still owe money, the execution is being handled with vigorous accountability and success.
AMC Entertainment should have no problem paying this off while maintaining a positive EBITDA through its multiple revenue streams.
Last year the company sold a $950 million junk bond which they used to pay down debt and refinance certain interests to much lower rates.
This has given the company much more flexibility than needed.
I think it’s fair to say the company has proved that it can handle its use of money quite well.
CEO Adam Aron also donated $1 million dollars of his personal money to charity in both stocks and cash.
“I benefited greatly as retail investors have embraced AMC. That makes it time for me to step up and personally give back.”
But even he hasn’t gotten involved in NFTs like Adam Aron has, with all respect to Mr. Musk.
AMC shareholders who signed up before December 31st of 2021 also received a series 1 “I Own AMC” NFT.
More than half a million of these NFTs were created and sent to shareholders for free.
I believe these series 1 NFTs will be worth a lot of money years down the road as the company releases a variety of series NFTs with series 1 being AMC’s ‘originals‘.
The concept is incredible but only time will tell.
It’s relatively high meaning short sellers continue to bet on AMC’s stock price to go down.
In fact, the Department of Justice is investigating short sellers and big-time hedge funds for illegally driving AMC and GameStop’s share prices down.
Elon Musk spoke out against short sellers with Adam Aron mocking them for the second time when the announcements were made public.
Short sellers have been long accused by the retail community of tampering with AMC’s share price as the demand for the stock has not been accurately reflecting on the price.
Once called conspiracy theorists, major publications and regulators have now confirmed every allegation.
Predatorial strategies in the market are real and AMC has been abused by them.
The retail community is fighting to lift the market manipulation imposed on so called ‘meme stocks’.
The lift would allow the stocks to naturally surge based on supply and demand.
Is AMC a good stock to short?
Absolutely not.
Hedge funds have lost billions of dollars betting against AMC Entertainment and now the Justice Department has gotten involved.
The number of activists in the retail community has multiplied over the months and year.
Can AMC still squeeze?
AMC’s current short interest is more than enough to send the share price to an all-time high.
The company’s stock reached $72 per share when the short interest was only at 20%.
The short interest came down to around 14% shortly after the price surge but has since gone up to now 21%.
When AMC climbed to $72 per share it was with only 6% short interest out of 20%.
Is it worth buying AMC for a short squeeze trade?
90% of retail investors holding the stock certainly think so.
For many, the reward outweighs the risk involved.
Though a wise man did once say, the only risk is not taking a risk at all.
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Is AMC a good stock to buy today?
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What makes AMC so different from most stocks is the peculiar spot it’s in.
The company is working extremely hard to improve its fundamentals by innovating, paying off its debt, and increasing its revenue streams.
In the meantime, you have a loyal shareholder base looking to squeeze shorts from their positions while keep their ties to the company after successfully doing so.
Moody’s recently upgraded AMC to Caa2 rating saying the outlook on the company is positive amid the cinema industry’s recovery.
And while corporate (mainstream) media might tell you otherwise, it’s important to note that these companies are often times influenced and bought by hedge funds.
There’s no narrative here, only data.
Is AMC a good stock to buy?
The stock could be a great buy whether you’re looking at a long-term fundamental investment or whether you’re diving into a short squeeze trade.
Just remember, this is not financial advice, and my suggestion as always is to never put more money in the market than you can afford to lose.
Always do your due diligence and stick true to your conviction.
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BREAKING: Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater buys AMC stock for the first time; sells Tesla
Another institution has bought AMC stock and sold another high-profile stock.
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater fund just bought AMC and GameStop and sold Tesla shares.
I was watching the multi-billionaire talk about the economy just yesterday with Tom Bilyeu.
Bridgewater wasn’t the only institution that increased their stake in AMC stock this first quarter.
The largest pension fund in America (CALPERS) purchased an additional 155,992 shares by the end of Q1 this year, totaling the number of AMC shares owned to 775,392 shares.
It seems institutions are bulking up on AMC shares right before executive order 14032 goes into effect.
Things are getting very interesting.
Let’s discuss it.
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Bridgewater buys AMC stock for the first time
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater buys AMC stock for the first time
Bridgewater disclosed an AMC stake for the first time in its latest portfolio update.
Dalio and his team bought about 27,100 shares of the cinema chain, which were worth $667,000 at the end of March.
The fund disclosed around 4,100 GameStop shares worth $689,000 as of March 31.
The last time it listed GME stock in its portfolio was more than three years ago, at the end of 2018, according to Market Insiders.
Bridgewater owned about 25,500 Tesla shares worth $27 million at the end of December, and held the stock in all four quarters of 2021 but cashed out its Tesla stock the first quarter this year.
Ray Dalio is an incredibly smart person.
Why an institution like Bridgewater is bulking up on AMC and GameStop shares has to mean something.
The ‘ape’ community predicted the big price runups that happened in AMC last January and May/June and are expecting a bigger runup this year.
Are financial institutions catching up?
Executive order 14302 goes into effect soon
Executive order 14302 is going to prohibit financial institutions from using Chinese securities as collateral on June 2nd, 2022.
The last time Chinese collateral was prohibited on January 27th, and May 27th of 2021, AMC stock surged.
Is this why institutions such as CALPERS and Bridgewater are buying AMC stock?
And while CALPERS did not buy GME stock this first quarter, it did buy 70,600 shares of GameStop during the last quarter of 2021.
I wonder what Wall Street analysts have to say about this.
After all, they made it their life’s mission to derail investors from buying these ‘meme stocks’.
Something tells me ‘dumb money’ might not have been so dumb after all.
But I’m curious to know what you think.
Are institutions on board with the data that says AMC and GameStop have massive potential for a short squeeze?
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