HOME > BUSINESS > AMC's wild week ends with nearly 85% gain in renewed meme stock craze AMC's wild week ends with nearly 85% gain in renewed meme stock craze Reuters | Jun 04, 2021 11:02 PM EDT An AMC theatre is pictured amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., (Photo : REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo) Shares of AMC Entertainment edged lower on Friday, closing out a wild week with a gain of just over 83% as the action reinvigorated the meme stock craze and the investors behind it "AMC has a very strong following of believers," said Dennis Dick, proprietary trader at Bright Trading LLC. "They're trying to hold strong, and they believe they're going to drive this to the moon."