What happened to that “movies are back” and the shorts are about to get squeezed $AMC buy signal? Answer: “wen dilution” and some more lousy movies. Sad ha!
@RedFlagRobbi3 You AVG down because you jumped on ship when AMC was at ATH. You’re not a real Ape you’re a bandwagon who tried to ride the wave and got sunk you have no choice but to buy more to avg down 😂😂😂
Tue, June 23, 2026
Author, Thornton McEnery-
"AMC Entertainment shares cratered 19% Tuesday because the company once again decided to make its shareholders pay for management's inability to run a profitable movie-theater business without constantly begging for more capital. CEO Adam Aron is back with yet another registered direct offering, this one for 95.25 million shares that will raise roughly $200 million before the bankers take their cut. The deal is expected to close on June 24, and if you are trying to keep track of how many times Aron has diluted AMC shareholders since the meme stock frenzy turned this company into a circus, well… go for it because we have frankly lost count.
Most of the proceeds will go toward redeeming $125.5 million of the company's 6.125% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2027, plus whatever fees and premiums come attached. That is to say, Aron is printing new shares to pay off old debts, a neat financial trick that does absolutely nothing to solve the underlying problem that AMC burns through money and has for years. The remaining cash will go to "general corporate purposes," which in this context likely means finding the next creative way to separate retail investors from what is left of their equity.
Aron has made a second career of treating dilution like a magic wand, waving it around every time the balance sheet starts to look ugly, which is often. The meme stock era gave him an army of devoted shareholders who cheered while he relentlessly watered down their ownership stake and then did things like literally buying a literal gold mine, and Tuesday's offering is just the latest chapter in that very long, very expensive story. The market's reaction makes clear that even the true believers are running out of patience. When you issue more than 95 million new shares in a single offering, you are not strengthening the balance sheet. You are telling existing owners that their piece of the pie just got a lot smaller, and they should probably say thank you for the privilege.
AMC will talk about reducing leverage and investing in theater upgrades, but the reality is simpler than the press release wants you to believe. This is a company that cannot generate enough cash from showing movies to keep the lights on without repeatedly coming back to the equity market hat in hand. Tuesday's 19% selloff suggests investors are finally starting to do the math on what all this dilution actually costs them.
And this is all happening while movie theaters are showing signs of life."
If you believe in the box office turn around and you like movies, you should really be supporting $CNK. They have done a great job at being fiscally responsible and navigating the COVID pandemic. Their fundamentals show profits and they have not diluted shareholders. They have returned value to shareholders that reflects the improved box office.
I’m all about movies and theaters making a great comeback and we should back responsible companies.
$AMC
#AMC This stock will be under 2 dollars.. Just wait on it. They haven’t even released the new shares and the majority of the Apes are already panic selling 😂
@ODB123@Justifiably_Me Nobody said AMC = Toys ‘R’ Us. The comparison is that debt extensions reduce near-term risk but don’t eliminate long-term execution risk. If extending maturities alone made companies safe, no company that refinanced debt would ever fail. That’s obviously not how it works.
@ODB123@Justifiably_Me Congratulations that really helped your stock 4 billion in debt, produce close to a billion shares, and have a 5 year avg of -99%. 🤮