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1 Big Red Flag in AMC's Earnings Report

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1 Big Red Flag in AMC's Earnings Report

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It's added $1 billion in high-interest debt to its balance sheet with total corporate borrowings now clocking in at $5.7 billion, but there's a bigger concern for investors here, and its already bloated debt burden helps explain it.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F617640%2Fslide-1-source-amc-entertainment.jpg&amp;w=700&amp;op=resize\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"280\"><span>Image source: AMC Entertainment.</span></p>\n<h2>Massive share dilution</h2>\n<p>AMC finished 2019 with 103 million shares. By the end of the third quarter, that share count had only increased modestly to an average of 107.7 million, but it then began to explode.</p>\n<p>In September, the company announced an at-the-market equity offering program, essentially allowing it to dilute shareholders by selling new stock when it saw the need to do so. Since then, the company has filed to sell 300 million new shares and added 44.4 million in new shares from a debt conversion.</p>\n<p>On the earnings call, CFO Sean Goodman set the record straight, saying that the company had issued 278 million shares through the at-the-market offering. As of March 3, AMC had 450.2 million shares outstanding.</p>\n<p>In other words, if you're an AMC shareholder who held from the beginning of 2020 until today, your stake in the company is just 22% of what it was a year ago, as is your share of the company's potential earnings.</p>\n<p>AMC's management deserves some credit for raising the cash necessary to keep the business afloat. 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On the call, CEO Adam Aron cited a survey of its Stubs members, who reported that going to the movies was the activity they missed the most. However, that's from a group of confirmed movie-lovers willing to pay for a subscription to see as many flicks at AMC as they want.</p>\n<p>The level of demand from the broader public is less clear. While audiences will certainly return to theaters, the case for pent-up demand in the industry seems to be less convincing than in other hard-hit sectors like travel and restaurants, which are inherently social and experiential, making them unsafe during COVID-19.</p>\n<p>Movies, on the other hand, have a convenient substitute in at-home entertainment, and streaming options have both proliferated and thrived during the pandemic. Studios have gotten comfortable putting new releases directly on their streaming services, effectively eliminating exhibitors like AMC.</p>\n<p>While AMC's revenue may return to pre-pandemic levels, whether it will exceed that is still uncertain, especially given the company's financial challenges and the changes in the market.</p>\n<h2>Still a sell</h2>\n<p>Despite an awful year for the business, AMC shares are actually up more than 40% from the start of 2020, primarily because of attention from Reddit traders.</p>\n<p>Given the extreme and still-ongoing share dilution, heavy debt burden and interest payments, and the fundamental power shift in the entertainment industry away from movie theaters, the company's future still looks bleak. 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