AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. Class A Common Stock (AMC)

FairStock Score: 20/100 — RISKY

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AI Analysis

AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.

AMC operates movie theatres, a business I understand: capital-intensive, competitive, and dependent on films people want to see. It has scale and locations, but I see little durable moat. Moviegoers can stay home, and streamers compete for attention. The numbers confirm weakness. In fiscal Q2 2026, the quarter ended 2026-06-30, revenue was $1.6B and net income was -$11.4M, with diluted EPS of -$0.02. For FY2025, ended 2025-12-31, revenue was $4.8B and net income was -$632.4M, or -$1.34 per diluted share. FY2024 and FY2023 also produced net losses of -$352.6M and -$396.6M. That is four straight years of losses, and the FairStock Lynch category is none because no profit-based category fits. Trailing free cash flow is -$22.4M, a -0.8% FCF yield. At the 2026-10-13 close of $3.06, the FairStock P/E is -3.00 and EV/EBITDA is 30.03. ROCE is 2.10%, while the Altman Z-Score is -1.24, suggesting financial stress. The Piotroski F-Score of 6/9 offers some encouragement, and revenue growth of 14.22% shows demand can rebound. But a P/E cannot value a loss-maker, and Graham would demand a margin of safety that these figures do not provide. The stock is a turnaround speculation, not a compounding business, and the beta of 2.17 warns that price swings may be violent. I would need evidence of durable profits and positive cash flow before calling this a sound value.

In plain English: AMC runs movie theaters in the United States and internationally. The business looks weak right now: it has lost money in each of the last four years, and its cash generation after expenses is slightly negative. At $3.06 a share, the price looks high compared with those losses, so it depends on a turnaround rather than current profits.

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Data as of 2026-10-13 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash

Sources (SEC EDGAR): fiscal Q2 2026 10-Q (period ended 2026-06-30) · fiscal Q1 2026 10-Q (period ended 2026-03-31) · fiscal Q3 2025 10-Q (period ended 2025-09-30) · fiscal Q2 2025 10-Q (period ended 2025-06-30) · FY2025 10-K (period ended 2025-12-31) · FY2024 10-K (period ended 2024-12-31) · FY2023 10-K (period ended 2023-12-31)

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