NOTE 12—LOSS PER SHARE

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On August 4, 2022, the Company announced that its Board of Directors declared a special dividend of one AMC Preferred Equity Unit for each share of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on August 15, 2022, the record date. The dividend was paid at the close of business on August 19, 2022 to investors who held shares of Common Stock as of August 22, 2022, the ex-dividend date.

Each AMC Preferred Equity Unit is a depositary share and represents an interest in one one-hundredth (1/100^th) of a share of Series A Convertible Participating Preferred Stock evidenced by a depositary receipt pursuant to a deposit agreement. The Company has 50,000,000 Preferred Stock shares authorized, 10,000,000 of which have currently been allocated and 5,195,206 have been issued under depositary agreement as Series A Convertible Participating Preferred Stock, leaving 40,000,000 unallocated Preferred Stock shares. Each AMC Preferred Equity Unit is designed to have the same economic and voting rights as a share of Class A common stock. Trading of the AMC Preferred Equity Units on the NYSE began on August 22, 2022 under the ticker symbol “APE”. Due to the characteristics of the AMC Preferred Equity Units, the special dividend similar to a stock split pursuant to ASC 505-20-25-4. Accordingly, all references made to share, per share, or common share amounts in the accompanying consolidated financial statements and applicable disclosures have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the effects of the special dividend as a stock split.

Basic loss per share is computed by dividing net loss by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding. Diluted loss per share includes the effects of unvested RSUs with a service condition only and unvested

contingently issuable RSUs and PSUs that have service and performance conditions, if dilutive.

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted loss per common share:

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Vested RSUs, PSUs, and special performance stock units (“SPSUs”) have dividend rights identical to the Company’s Common Stock and AMC Preferred Equity Units and are treated as outstanding shares for purposes of computing basic and diluted earnings per share. Unvested RSUs of 5,428,148 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 and unvested RSUs of 7,588,246 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 were not included in the computation of diluted loss per share because they would be anti-dilutive.

Unvested PSUs and SPSUs are subject to performance and market conditions, respectively, and are included in diluted earnings per share, if dilutive, based on the number of shares, if any, that would be issuable under the terms of the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan if the end of the reporting period were the end of the contingency period. Unvested PSUs of 2,838,090 at certain performance targets for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, unvested PSUs of 4,298,996 at certain performance targets for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, and unvested SPSUs of 2,313,312 at the minimum market condition for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, were not included in the computation of diluted loss per share because they would not be issuable if the end of the reporting period were the end of the contingency period or they would be anti-dilutive.

As of September 30, 2022, approximately 4.9 million shares of our Class A common stock and approximately 4.7 million shares of our AMC Preferred Equity Units were directly registered with our transfer agent by 15,205 shareholders.