2-Star Stocks Poised to Plunge: AMC Networks?
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, cable television brands operator AMC Networks (NAS: AMCX) has received a distressing two-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at AMC and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
AMC facts
Headquarters (founded) | New York (1980) |
Market Cap | $3.4 billion |
Industry | Cable and satellite |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $1.3 billion |
Management | CEO Joshua Sapan (since 2011) |
Trailing-12-Month Return on Capital | 18.4% |
Cash/Debt | $307.8 million / $2.3 billion |
Competitors | A&E Television Networks |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 26% of the 27 members who have rated AMC believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
This past summer, one of those bears, fellow Fool Nathan Alderman (TMFNato), succinctly summed up the underperform case for our community:
It's run by a self-serving family that stuffs the board with relatives (all collecting paychecks for their directorship) and has an iron grip on 75% of the voting power. And the whole company seems to have been spun off only to unload a pile of debt from parent Cablevision onto the new company. AMC freely admits that it can't possibly repay that debt, which is practically a big, blinking sign to shareholders: WE WILL DILUTE YOU. Plus, its efforts to create new hit shows like Mad Men and The Walking Dead have thus far not borne fruit, and it's nickel-and-diming the hit shows it does have. Bad, bad moves from a bad, bad company.
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