$AMC Embraces $DOGE.X

After AMC’s CEO Adam Aron conducted an informal Twitter poll on accepting Dogecoin as an option for ticket purchases, the company is supposedly considering ways to offerΒ $DOGE.X as a payment option.

Over 140,000 Twitter users (or 77% of poll participants) indicated that AMC should accept DOGE. πŸ‘ The poll also became Aron’s highest-read tweet ever by a landslide. πŸ˜‚

Last week, the company announced that it would alsoΒ accept legacy cryptos like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin alongside Ethereum for purchases at AMC. The absence of the world’s biggest memecoin sent Dogecoin stans into a flurry, prompting the company to explore a Doge-centric offering appealing to the retail crowd.

Fascinated by the public’s response, Aron saidΒ “Now we need to figure out how to do that… Stay tuned.” πŸ’ͺ

Only Some EV-Makers Delivered

Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers came out with their fourth-quarter delivery numbers today, sending their stocks all over the place. πŸ“Š

First, let’s start with everyone’s favorite, Tesla, which delivered mixed news to investors. It managed 1.81 million EV deliveries around the globe in 2023, meeting its full-year guidance and narrowly topping the consensus estimates. That was up 38% YoY but slowed from 2022.Β 

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Boeing Loses Altitude (Again)

If you’re an investor in airlines or airplane manufacturers, this is not the type of headline you want to wake up to. Unfortunately for Boeing and several others, the news is not great. So let’s dig into it. πŸ‘‡

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Trouble Continues For Telecoms

We last talked about Telecom stocks about six months ago, when their stocks came under significant pressure due to slowing growth, competition concerns, and regulatory issues. We then discussed them in October when investors dumped defensive stocks for higher-yielding treasuries with no risk.

Prices have since rebounded sharply with the broader market as investors priced in Fed rate cuts this year. However, Verizon was back in the news today for a not-so-great reason. Let’s dig in. πŸ‘‡

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PayPal Pops Ahead Of Key Event

It’s been a rough few years for payment giant PayPal, with shares falling 85% peak-to-trough. Recently, the stock has begun to rebound with other beaten-down tech names but remains about 80% below all-time highs. In other words, it would need to nearly 5x its share price to reach those levels again. πŸ“ˆ

While that may seem a ways off, investors have recently pushed shares to their best three-day run since the end of 2022. That’s because the company promised to roll out new “customer-backed innovation” at an event next Thursday, with its new CEO Alex Chriss saying, “It is very clear what we need to do.”

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