AMC Retail Investors Want to Hold, Management Wants to Sell
AMC (NYSE: AMC) shareholders face an epic annual meeting that will have them vote on authorizing additional shares of AMC stock for sale. The company is in a tug of war between retail investors buying AMC stock and Wall Street hedge funds selling shares short. Importantly, when a person or institution sells shares short, they are counting on the stock price to drop in order to make a profit.
However, that plan can be thwarted by an equal or stronger force on the other side of the trade, betting that the stock price will go up instead. In the middle of this battle is management, which is trying to capitalize on the fact that AMC's stock price is up over 2,500% year to date.
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