AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (AMC)
🔔 Watch stock
symbol.quality_heading
We found at least one documented issue that threatens the company itself — regardless of how the stock is currently valued.
With no going-concern warning and a twelve-month cushion, bankruptcy is not the near-term base case — but an Altman Z-score around minus 1.5, Piotroski 3 of 9, interest coverage of 0.3, ongoing dilution and the 2029 maturity wall are not buy arguments; they are the price of the rescue. If operating cash flow turns sustainably positive and the 2029 wall gets refinanced at single-digit rates, the picture changes; until then the stock is a highly volatile option certificate on the full theatrical recovery, its price co-written by the community. The decision is yours.
symbol.quality_note
AMC is the largest movie theater chain in the world — and, since 2021, the meme stock: the squeeze, the "Apes", the APE units, a reverse split. Five years on, the theaters really are filling up again: $4.85 billion in revenue in 2025, and the first quarter of 2026 grew 21 percent. We read the annual report (10-K) for 2025 and the quarterly report (10-Q) as of March 31, 2026: a share count up roughly a hundredfold since early 2020 and still growing, $4.0 billion of debt at double-digit interest rates, a $3.2 billion maturity wall in 2029 — and management's own words that the current cash burn is "not sustainable long-term". Not investment advice — just the tab that comes due after the credits roll.
Read the analysis
Stock Watch
This analysis is as of July 15, 2026. Stock Watch will tell you what's changed at AMC since then.
Later $1 a month per stock — signing up is free, and you'll be the first to know when it launches.
Appears in These Scanners
This stock currently matches 4 of our scanner strategies — each hit links to the scanner.
Only genuine hits from verified scanners count; pure ranking metrics (P/E, P/S, and similar, which just sort the whole universe) don't count as a hit. Scanners marked in red are red-flag signals (risk/short scanners) — appearing there is not a seal of approval. View all scanners
Trading Day
Key levels of the most recently completed trading day — not a live quote.
52-Week Range
Current price 2.80 $ — 82% of the range above the low.
Lowest and highest closing price over the last 52 weeks. The marker shows where the current price sits within that range: close to the high speaks for strength, close to the low for weakness.
Basics
Performance
Technical Indicators
Calculated from the price history · as of 08/03/2026
Valuation
Profitability
Balance Sheet & Safety
Growth
Dividend
This stock currently pays no dividend.
Quality & Screener
AI Rating
Uses AIAMC setzt KI laut Geschäftsbericht (10-K 2025, Item 1A) operativ ein und baut den Einsatz aus — Filmempfehlungen für Gäste, KI-Chatbots im Kundenservice, Absicherung/Optimierung interner Software, Marketing-Automatisierung, geplant auch Film-Booking — ohne dass KI eine Umsatzquelle wäre. Bedroht-Prüfung: Die Risk Factors nennen KI nur als Arbeitskampf-/Zulieferrisiko der Studios (Filmangebot) und als generisches Wettbewerbs-Boilerplate („competitors gain an advantage“), nicht als konkrete Bedrohung des eigenen Kino-Geschäftsmodells — daher Rang 3 „nutzt“ statt Rang 2 „bedroht“.
View the full file — quotes, sources, reviewed filings
„We have incorporated and intend to continue to incorporate AI technologies, including generative AI (a subset of AI), into our operations. For example, we currently utilize AI to provide our guests better film recommendations and AI chatbots to improve customer service. We are currently using, and expanding, AI in optimizing and better securing internal software applications and certain marketing automation with plans to continue expansion across film booking and other business applications."
Wir haben KI-Technologien, einschließlich generativer KI (einer Unterform der KI), in unsere Abläufe integriert und beabsichtigen, dies fortzusetzen. Beispielsweise nutzen wir KI derzeit, um unseren Gästen bessere Filmempfehlungen zu geben, und KI-Chatbots, um den Kundenservice zu verbessern. Wir nutzen KI aktuell — mit weiterem Ausbau — zur Optimierung und besseren Absicherung interner Software-Anwendungen sowie für Teile der Marketing-Automatisierung, mit Plänen zur Ausweitung auf die Filmprogrammierung (Film-Booking) und weitere Geschäftsanwendungen.
„If studios and labor unions are unable to agree on the parameters of AI technology utilization in the filmmaking process, it could negatively impact the supply of movies available for exhibition in our theatres. Additionally, audience acceptance of movies made utilizing AI technology is not known."
Sollten sich Studios und Gewerkschaften nicht auf die Rahmenbedingungen des KI-Einsatzes im Filmproduktionsprozess einigen können, könnte dies das Angebot an Filmen für die Vorführung in unseren Kinos negativ beeinträchtigen. Zudem ist nicht bekannt, wie das Publikum Filme annimmt, die unter Einsatz von KI-Technologie entstanden sind.
„In addition, new technology, including generative AI, is evolving rapidly and our ability to compete could be adversely affected if our competitors gain an advantage by using such technologies."
Darüber hinaus entwickeln sich neue Technologien, einschließlich generativer KI, rasant, und unsere Wettbewerbsfähigkeit könnte beeinträchtigt werden, wenn sich unsere Wettbewerber durch den Einsatz solcher Technologien einen Vorteil verschaffen.
Filings Reviewed: 10-Q 2026-05-05 · 10-Q 2025-11-05 · 10-Q 2025-08-11 · 10-Q 2025-05-07 · 10-K 2026-02-23 · 10-K 2025-02-26
Rated on July 15, 2026 · How the Rating Is Built
Highlighted are things our editorial team noticed: green = stands out as strong, red = deserves a closer look. No single metric is a verdict on its own — always read it in context.
Analysts & Price Target
The price target sits 2.9% below the current price.
- Consensus
- Hold
- Analyst Ratings
- 7
Combined picture of the price targets and recommendations of every analyst covering the stock. Price targets are expectations for the next 12 months, not promises — and they often follow the price rather than predict it.
Estimates by Fiscal Year
| Fiscal Year | EPS Estimate ($) | EPS Range ($) | Revenue Estimate ($M) | Expected Growth | Analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/31/2026 | -0.18 | -0.18 – -0.18 | 5,497 | 81.3% | 1 |
| 12/31/2027 | -0.13 | -0.15 – -0.10 | 5,744 | 30.6% | 2 |
Average of the analyst estimates for the coming fiscal years. The range shows how far the most optimistic and the most cautious estimate sit apart — the wider it is, the less certain the expectation.
Next Reporting Date
- Expected Earnings per Share
- -0.06 $
Expected date of the next quarterly or annual figures. Dates do shift occasionally — only the invitation issued by the company is binding.
Revenue & Profit
Cash Flow
Balance Sheet
Margins
Per Share
Click the chart or tab into it, then use ← and → to step through the periods.
None of the selected stocks reports this metric. Pick another metric or switch between annual and quarterly.
· Total · per year
These companies report in different currencies — switch on “Indexed” or pick a margin for a fair comparison.
The figures could not be loaded right now.
Source: fundamental data
Quarterly Figures
| Quarter | EPS (Earnings Per Share) | EPS YoY (%) | Sales ($M) | Sales YoY (%) | Net Margin (%) | OCF ($M) | FCF ($M) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024: Q4 | -0.35 | – | 1,306 | 18.30 | -10.40 | 204 | 114 |
| 2025: Q1 | -0.47 | – | 863 | -9.30 | -23.40 | -370 | -417 |
| 2025: Q2 | -0.01 | – | 1,398 | 35.60 | -0.30 | 138 | 89 |
| 2025: Q3 | -0.58 | – | 1,300 | -3.60 | -22.90 | -15 | -81 |
| 2025: Q4 | -0.25 | – | 1,288 | -1.40 | -9.90 | 127 | 43 |
| 2026: Q1 | -0.22 | – | 1,045 | 21.20 | -11.20 | -129 | -175 |
| 2026: Q2 | -0.02 | -100.00 | 1,597 | 14.20 | -0.70 | 235 | 235 |
- EPS (Earnings Per Share):
- Quarterly profit divided by the total share count — how much of the profit works out to a single share.
- YoY (Year over Year):
- Change versus the same quarter a year ago — this is how you compare without seasonal distortion (e.g. the holiday shopping season).
- Sales:
- All revenue for the quarter, before any costs are deducted — the top line of the income statement.
- Net Margin:
- What percentage of sales is left over as profit in the end. Negative means the company is posting a loss.
- OCF (Operating Cash Flow):
- The cash that actually flows into the till from the core business during the quarter — harder to dress up than book profit.
- FCF (Free Cash Flow):
- Operating cash flow minus capital expenditures — the money that's genuinely free to use, say for paying down debt, buybacks, or dividends.
Annual Figures
| Fiscal Year | Revenue ($M) | EBIT ($M) | Net Income ($M) | EPS ($) | Operating Cash Flow ($M) | Equity ($M) | Total Assets ($M) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3,236 | 220 | 116 | 10.35 | 432 | 2,014 | 8,618 |
| 2017 | 5,079 | 102 | -487 | -33.52 | 537 | 2,112 | 9,806 |
| 2018 | 5,461 | 265 | 110 | 7.47 | 523 | 1,398 | 9,496 |
| 2019 | 5,471 | 136 | -149 | -12.67 | 579 | 1,214 | 13,676 |
| 2020 | 1,242 | -4,103 | -4,589 | -172.73 | -1,130 | -2,885 | 10,276 |
| 2021 | 2,528 | -930 | -1,269 | -11.15 | -614 | -1,790 | 10,822 |
| 2022 | 3,911 | -522 | -974 | -7.43 | -629 | -2,625 | 9,136 |
| 2023 | 4,813 | -74 | -397 | -2.37 | -215 | -1,848 | 9,009 |
| 2024 | 4,637 | -79 | -353 | -1.06 | -51 | -1,761 | 8,248 |
| 2025 | 4,849 | 41 | -632 | -1.23 | -120 | -1,895 | 8,018 |
Fiscal years from the audited annual reports, oldest first. EBIT is the operating profit before interest and taxes; total assets are everything the company owns.
Assessment: Opportunities & Risks
The world's largest theater chain with measurable per-house quality (8 of the 10 highest-grossing U.S. theatres in 2025, a 56 percent IMAX market share): 2025 revenue up 4.6 percent to $4,848.9 million, the operating loss down to $17.4 million, Q1 2026 up 21.2 percent (annual report 10-K for 2025, quarterly report 10-Q).
$4,024.2 million of principal at mostly double-digit rates (10.731 percent term loans, 10.50 percent Odeon 2031, 9 plus 6 percent PIK), $530.2 million of interest expense in 2025, negative equity of $1,894.8 million — and a maturity wall of $3,172.2 million in 2029.
Plus 524,339,457 shares since January 1, 2020 (split-adjusted, through February 18, 2026) — roughly a hundredfold increase; and the machine keeps running: 55.2 million ATM shares at about $1.17 and 33.1 million fee shares in Q1 2026 alone, roughly 142 million more from the May exchange, 1.1 billion shares authorized.
Cash down from $632.3 million (end of 2024) via $428.5 million (end of 2025) to $339.2 million (March 31, 2026), operating cash flow of minus $119.8 million (2025) and minus $128.5 million (Q1 2026); the report calls the burn rates "not sustainable long-term" — the condition for the turn is pre-COVID revenue, and the market was still 22 percent below that in 2025.
A 114 percent three-month rally and relative strength of 76 stand against an 11 percent daily range, Weinstein Stage 3 and minus 99.7 percent from the 2021 peak (split-adjusted, data as of July 8, 2026); "Apes", short squeezes and non-guaranteed retail support are official risk factors per the 10-K — the community is life ring and risk source at once.
AMC delivered operationally in 2025: the best revenue year since the pandemic, near-breakeven operations, a strongly growing first quarter of 2026. That time was paid for with the wealth of existing shareholders: the share count is up roughly a hundredfold since early 2020 and keeps growing, while $4.0 billion of debt at double-digit rates costs $530 million a year and $3.2 billion of it comes due in 2029. Cash nearly halved within five quarters, and the report itself calls the burn unsustainable long-term. The recovery is real — but so far it belongs to the creditors and the new shares, not to the existing shareholder. Not investment advice.
- AMC landed on the research list via our in-house Reddit hype scanner (7 mentions in 24 hours, data source ApeWisdom, as of July 15, 2026); in the fundamental scanners, as of the July 8, 2026 data cut, the stock sits in "Going Concern (Distress-Proxy)", "Altman-Z: Distress-Zone", "KUV-Ranking" (price-to-sales), "Stan Weinstein: Stage 3" and "Kathy Donnelly: Liquid Movers Down". Scanner memberships are snapshots and rotate daily.
- Unlike classic distress candidates, the annual report for 2025 contains no going-concern warning; the distress proxy fires because of trailing metrics (Altman-Z, interest coverage, Piotroski). These are computed on twelve-month figures and reflect refinancings only with a lag.
- Price and valuation figures are dated to July 8, 2026 (about $1.90, market value about $1.9 billion); the share count of 612.1 million is as of May 4, 2026 (quarterly report 10-Q). Analyses are evergreen; daily prices are not a buy argument.
About the Company
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. beschäftigt sich mit dem Kinobetrieb in den USA und international.
| Employees | 2,931 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Leawood, KS |
| Address | One AMC Way, 66211 Leawood, United States |
| Phone | 913 213 2000 |
| Website | amctheatres.com |
| IPO Date | 18. Dec 2013 |
| ISIN | US00165C3025 |
| Stock Split | 1:10 on 08/24/2023 |
Management
| Name | Title | Birth Year |
|---|---|---|
| Adam M. Aron | Chairman, President & CEO | 1955 |
| Sean D. Goodman CPA | Executive VP of International Operations, IT & Procurement, CFO and Treasurer | 1965 |
| Daniel E. Ellis J.D. | Executive VP & Chief Operations, Development & Marketing Officer | 1969 |
| Carla C. Chavarria CBP, CCP, PHR | Senior VP & Chief Human Resources Officer | 1966 |
| Mark Jonathan Way | MD of Odeon Cinema Group & President of AMC Europe | 1972 |
| Chris A. Cox | Senior VP & Chief Accounting Officer | 1966 |
| John C. Merriwether | Vice President of Capital Markets and Investor Relations | – |
| Edwin F. Gladbach | Senior VP, General Counsel & Secretary | 1973 |
| Ryan Noonan | Senior Vice President of Public Relations | – |
| Nikkole Denson-Randolph | Senior Vice President & U.S. Chief Content Officer | 1972 |
Executives per the latest required filings; titles kept in their original language. Source: fundamental data.
Chart
Interactive price chart (TradingView).
Data as of: July 31, 2026 · Source: fundamental data & SEC filings (annual and quarterly reports, 10-K/10-Q)
Note: pure fact-based analysis, not investment advice and not a solicitation to buy or sell. All figures without guarantee.