AMC Theatres CEO Gives Shout-Out to Redditors Who Boosted Stock: ‘I Work for Them’

Adam Aron and AMC will also each make a $50,000 donation to r/WallStreetBets’ ape conservation charity campaign

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 06: A cyclist rides his bike by an AMC theatre during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on April 06, 2020 in San Francisco, California. The future of AMC movie theaters remains in question after shuttering all of its theaters and furloughing all 600 of its corporate staff including CEO Adam Aron. Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area are continuing to shelter in place due to the coronavirus. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

AMC Theaters is still losing money as movie theaters around the world wait for more major blockbusters to arrive, but CEO Adam Aron was still very upbeat at Thursday’s earnings call, and the millions of Redditors and Robinhood traders that boosted his company’s stock earlier this year.

Aron said that over the past quarter, AMC has taken in approximately 3 million new shareholders thanks in large part to r/wallstreetbets, which picked AMC along with a few other companies like GameStop and Bed Bath and Beyond as targets to buy stock in given their status as companies that hedge fund groups were short-selling.

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