Do our shares become Amazon shares if they buy out AMC?
It depends how the company is acquired
but the stock would squeeze before the acquisition plus the target company experiences a rise and the acquiring company experiences a dip
I don't think Amazon would merge with AMC if they acquired, so I think Amazon will wait for after the squeeze to buy the company if they want to, I mean AMC streaming service being on Amazons, would mean Amazon Prime members can watch the movies in the theater on their app
so that would be big for them and put them over netflix and all the others
But typically, the shareholders are compensated with cash or stocks, or hybrid, so you would have a choice to take some cash or amazon stocks, or mixture of both, and the AMC stock will cease to exist
In a merger the newly formed entity would see a significant increase of stock price compared to both prior prices of the two companies tha merged, but leading up to the merger, the acquiring company's stocks will surge so AMC would squeeze, and Amazon would take a dip, so we would have time to cash out before the merger