What Investors Need to Know About AMC’s APE Units: A Stock ‘Split on Steroids’

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. outlined plans this month to issue a special dividend, sending its shares soaring and stoking enthusiasm among the company’s passionate base of individual investors. 

Shares of the cinema chain have surged almost 15% since the plans were unveiled Aug. 4, while short sellers betting against the stock have suffered more than $500 million in losses.

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