This "Walking Dead" Stock Is Alive and Well

By Tim Beyers – Nov 29, 2012 at 10:29AM

NASDAQ: NFLX

Netflix

Market Cap

$242B

Today's Change

(-0.63%) -$3.57

Current Price

$561.23

Price as of April 26, 2024, 4:00 p.m. ET

AMC is rallying heading into the midseason finale of "The Walking Dead."

Shares of AMC Networks (AMCX -4.41%) are up some 36% year to date on the strength of its award-winning programming. Take The Walking Dead, a ratings winner so big that DISH Network (DISH) agreed to end a long-standing legal dispute to bring it back.

And yet AMC isn't the only up-and-coming content house. Time Warner (TWX) and CBS (PARA -2.22%) have spent years developing edgy original programming via their HBO and Showtime networks. Netflix (NFLX -0.63%) is in on the game, too. What makes AMC so special that it deserves the rally it's enjoying right now? I answer that question and more in the video below.

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