Amc Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (AMC) Stock — Forensic Analysis, Red Flags & Rating | Stockonomy · Stockonomy
Forensic Analysis · Media / Entertainment / Streaming · as of Sep 29, 2026
Amc Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (AMC)
A forensic read on Amc Entertainment Holdings, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
F · Poor — capital at risk
Forensic grade
Distress
Financial health
-4.7
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
3
Forensic signals
4.6%
Revenue growth
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Amc Entertainment Holdings, Inc. earns an F (Poor — capital at risk) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -4.7, placing it in the Distress zone (based on book value, not market value, since this free snapshot doesn't pull live market data — treat this zone as a rough read, not the final word). 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
-0.2%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -0.2% in the latest fiscal year and steady across FY2023–FY2025, inside a 0.8-point range. After-tax operating profit was ($59M) in FY2023 and ($14M) in FY2025, with operating income at -1.5% of revenue in FY2023, -1.7% in FY2024 and -0.4% in FY2025. The capital base behind it came down -10% across FY2023–FY2025, from $6.5B to $5.8B, so this return is struck on a smaller base than it started on. FY2023's operating profit carried a $108M asset write-down that alone took about 1.3 points off that year's return, so more than the whole 0.7-point rise across FY2023–FY2025 is that charge leaving the base year rather than the capital earning more. FY2024's operating profit carried a $72M asset write-down that alone took about 1.0 points off that year's return; FY2024 sits between the two ends of FY2023–FY2025, so the charge shapes the path between them without moving the change across it.
+68.0%/yr
FY2023–FY2025
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +182% over the last 2 years to FY2025 (+68.0%/yr). The count is growing — 167.6M shares in FY2023, 472.9M in FY2025: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~68.0% shaved off per-share growth every year — total profit has to grow that much just to keep earnings-per-share flat, and a stake held since FY2023 has been diluted ~65%.
0.3% of rev
FY2025
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 0.3% of revenue in FY2025 — about $0.04 per diluted share. No cash left the business to pay it, which is why operating cash flow adds it back. Net of repurchases the diluted count still rose about 68.0% a year across FY2023–FY2025, and the rate is falling. Stock compensation is one source of that issuance; acquisition consideration, equity raises, convertibles and other employee plans also net into the count, and these figures do not separate them.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$4.85B
Revenue Growth YoY+4.6%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)+0.4%
Net Margin-13.0%
Free Cash Flow-$365.9M
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