Theater chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. (NYSE: AMC), isn't losing sleep over its rough first quarter, as it doubles down on its bold outlook for the full year.
Theater company AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, with sales falling 9.3% year on year to $862.5 million. Its non-GAAP loss of $0.58 per share was 4.4% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
The stocks in this article have caught Wall Street’s attention in a big way, with price targets implying returns above 20%.
But investors should take these forecasts with a grain of salt because analysts typically say nice things about companies so their firms can win business in other product lines like M&A advisory.
As the Q4 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the leisure facilities industry, including AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) and its peers.
The past year hasn't been kind to the stocks featured in this article.
Each has tumbled to their lowest points in 12 months, leaving investors to decide whether they're witnessing fire sales or falling knives.
AMC has too much debt, according to Jim Cramer. Roth MKM analyst Eric Handler, on April 16, maintained AMC Entertainment with a Neutral rating and lowered the price target from $3.25 to $3.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled a cautious stance on future monetary policy decisions during a speech in Chicago, emphasizing that trade tariffs could add upward pressure to inflation in the short term and complicate the Fed's efforts to stabilize the economy. He warned that such trade measures are "likely to move us further away from our goals," referring to the Fed's dual mandate of price stability and maximum employment.
Shareholders of AMC Entertainment would probably like to forget the past six months even happened. The stock dropped 34.6% and now trades at $2.66. This was partly due to its softer quarterly results and might have investors contemplating their next move.
Small-cap stocks can be incredibly lucrative investments because their lack of analyst coverage leads to frequent mispricings.
However, these businesses (and their stock prices) often stay small because their subscale operations make it harder to expand their competitive moats.
AMC Entertainment is enhancing its premium moviegoing experience with IMAX with Laser technology. Under the agreement, AMC will add twelve new IMAX locations and upgrade an additional 68 IMAX locations to IMAX with Laser.
