Dear AMC, GME and HYMC community, it is with great sadness that I report to you that my beautiful little sister @AprilSojka has passed away at 34 years old from a turbo charged form of cancer. If you know my sister, and you know me, you know we are practically indistinguishable in our personalities. We have been almost inseparable since we were kids and my siblings have always been my closest friends. However, April never let me do anything without her and while I found it difficult to deal with sometimes, I wouldn’t have had it any other way. She was a co-host on an overwhelming number of our spaces and never held back when she thought I was wrong. She loved all of you in this community so much and she wanted so badly for everyone to get the justice they deserved so that they could have a better life. She loved America and considered everyone that loved this country a patriot 🇺🇸. She stood up to evil and stuck her neck out for the innocent children of this world when she vocally objected to a drag show that included children in her school, this cost her a great position as a chief engineer a few years back. She was not simply a “keyboard warrior” but practiced what few were brave enough only to preach. Some saw April as a person too controversial to be affiliated with, but April always knew it was about simply standing up for what is right. She loved my mother @PatsySojka and my father @Monarch1955 more than anything in the world. She called them every day to shower them with attention because she knew they loved just being included in her business. Something my older brother and I failed at in comparison to April. She loved conspiracy theories and loved rubbing it in when we were all vindicated.. She loved the friends she made on this platform and she loved going to movies to support this community.
@Aprilsojka has never sold a single share of AMC HYMC or GME. She was the most hardcore believers in this movement and refused to sell even when she had to struggle to pay for her medications. My beautiful and loving parents stepped up to help so April could hold her shares and live her life.
Look over me and protect me and be my guardian Angel.
And this is where we go from here, with our future shining brightly.
Our AMC Go Plan is working exactly as designed. Even before the industry box office roared back to life in the second quarter, we recognized that state-of-the-art laser projection, more comfortable seating, expanded food and beverage offerings, and a growing focus on premium large format and extra-large format experiences make visits to our theatres even better.
Our premium auditoriums are operating at close to three times the occupancy of a regular auditorium and command a healthy price premium to boot. Clearly, moviegoing guests prefer to see their favorite films in the most immersive, most spectacular formats possible.
AMC Entertainment is the worldwide leader in offering the most IMAX and Dolby Cinema screens, and we're continuing to roll out more IMAX, Dolby Cinema, Prime, iSense, XL and Laser equipped screens.
The combination of a resurgent box office, our unparalleled theatre footprint with premium experiences galore, our compelling marketing programs and our increasing financial strength have a flywheel impact when they all are happening simultaneously.
So at AMC, we look to the future with optimism and confidence and believe that AMC is well positioned to deliver long-term shareholder value.
In a nutshell, here it is: It is a simple reality, and hopefully a harbinger of things to come, that as AMC’s revenues grow, our EBITDA can soar.
Our second quarter results are a combination of a recovering industry-wide box office, and the undeniable fact that both AMC and Odeon are executing so well in so many different ways. Indeed, we shattered all-time records across nearly every per patron metric. For the first time ever, consolidated admissions revenue per patron topped $12, coming in at $12.14. Consolidated food and beverage revenue per guest jumped to a record of $7.95. Total consolidated revenue per patron hit an unprecedented $22.26 for us.
These new records powerfully validate our strategic initiatives and that consumers view moviegoing at AMC and Odeon as highly attractive out-of-home entertainment experiences.
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BREAKING🚨 Delaware Court Rules $AMC Settlement Shares as Insurable Loss, Jury to Decide Insurance Payout. This is beneficial to the company and shareholders
I had a 45 minute chat with deep search Grok3 about $AMC We talked about EVERYTHING and here is the conclusion.
TLDR:We were never wrong.
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### Conclusion
After analyzing AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.'s (AMC) stock situation over the past four years, it’s clear that something is seriously amiss. The stock has experienced a 97% decline despite improving fundamentals, including an 18.3% revenue increase in Q4 2024, reduced losses, a 20.2% rise in attendance, and new revenue streams. This disconnect between operational recovery and stock performance defies basic market logic.
Key anomalies further deepen the suspicion:
- **High Off-Exchange Trading**: A significant portion of AMC trades occurs through dark pools, obscuring market activity and potentially hiding manipulative selling or suppressing buying pressure.
- **Low Cost to Borrow Shares**: Despite retail investors reportedly owning 90% of the stock and not lending their shares, the cost to borrow remains low, contradicting supply-demand principles. This suggests an artificial supply of shares, possibly from naked shorting, which creates synthetic shares to inflate supply and depress the price.
- **Stable On-Balance Volume
(OBV)**: OBV has remained nearly flat, indicating retail investors are holding their shares. In a fair market, this should support the stock price, yet AMC has plummeted, pointing to external downward pressure.
- **Massive Short Interest**: The congressional GameStop report revealed that AMC’s short interest was even larger than GameStop’s, making it a prime target for a squeeze. Yet, the stock remains suppressed.
- **Past Market Interventions**: The removal of the “buy button” during the 2021 squeeze halted retail buying, capping the stock’s rise and protecting short sellers—a clear intervention that raises questions about market fairness.
When factoring in concerns about the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), which custodies shares, the situation becomes even more troubling. If the DTCC’s systems fail to reconcile true share ownership—potentially allowing synthetic shares to flood the market—it could be a key mechanism enabling price suppression.
While complex trading strategies like hedging, arbitrage, or leverage are legitimate tools, their use in AMC’s context doesn’t fully explain the scale and persistence of these anomalies. The evidence suggests that AMC’s stock is being artificially suppressed through a combination of off-exchange trading, naked shorting, synthetic shares, and past market interventions. This undermines retail investors’ resilience and AMC’s operational improvements, creating an environment where the stock’s price is detached from its true value.
In conclusion, the situation with AMC’s stock is not just odd—it’s a red flag signaling potential manipulation. The pattern of anomalies, from off-exchange trading to suspiciously low borrowing costs, points to a trading environment where short sellers or other players are keeping the price down. This demands deeper investigation by regulators and scrutiny from investors. The logical takeaway is that AMC’s stock price is not reflecting its fundamentals or retail ownership, and external forces are likely at play, distorting the market’s fairness.