Shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. continued their slide Thursday, falling 5.1% and on pace to extend their losing streak to three days.
AMC’s stock
AMC,
which is currently trading around $4.66, would also set another record-low close if its slide continues. The stock ended Wednesday’s session down 2.6% at $4.91, an all-time low, according to Dow Jones Market Data, based on available data going back to Dec. 18, 2013. AMC’s stock has hit a series of record lows recently, reflecting the demise of the movie-theater chain’s meme-stock status.
This is a far cry from AMC’s meme-stock heyday: The stock is down more than 98% from its all-time closing high of $339.05 on June 2, 2021, Dow Jones market data show.
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The company’s shares are down eight of the past nine days. The stock is also down three consecutive days, falling more than 10% over this period, Dow Jones Market Data show.
AMC’s stock is down 89.4% in the last 52 weeks, compared with the S&P 500 index’s
SPX
gain of 19.4%.
Three years ago, the movie-theater chain went from a beleaguered pandemic victim to a meme-stock phenomenon. Boosted by the WallStreetBets crowd on Reddit, AMC used a steep rise in its share price to tap into equity and debt markets, raising $917 million in January 2021.
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Since then, AMC has taken aim at its debt burden, which was more than $5 billion in 2022. That year, AMC launched its AMC Preferred Equity Unit special dividend and in 2023 completed the conversion of the APEs into AMC common stock, along with a reverse 1-for-10 split of common stock.
In December, AMC completed its latest at-the-market equity offering, raising approximately $350 million.
In a regulatory filing last week, AMC said that between Dec. 28 and Dec. 29, 2023, the company entered into a series of privately negotiated exchange agreements to issue nearly 3.26 million shares of Class A common stock in exchange for $22.5 million of its notes due in 2026. The common stock issued had an implied value of $6.94 per share, according to AMC. “The company may engage in similar transactions in the future but is under no obligation to do so,” AMC said in the filing.
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On Sunday, AMC Chief Executive Adam Aron expressed the movie-theater chain’s “eternal gratitude” to Taylor Swift after the singer-songwriter’s concert film, for which AMC served as the distributor, broke another record.
Variety reported Sunday that “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” has earned more than $261.6 million globally, making it the highest-grossing concert and documentary film in history, surpassing “Michael Jackson’s This Is It.”
Of seven analysts surveyed by FactSet, four have a hold rating and three have a sell rating for AMC.
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