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By Anna Cooban, CNN
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Updated 10:07 PM EDT, Mon June 3, 2024
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Shares of GameStop climbed 21% on Monday as the renewed frenzy around meme stocksshows little sign of abating.
The video game retailer’s stock soared hours after a Reddit post by stocks influencer Keith Gill —also known as “Roaring Kitty” — revealed that he had bought nearly $116 million worth of the stock. GameStop’s stock surged as much as 75% earlier in the day before parings its gains.
The post was the first on Gill’s Reddit account in more than three years, when social media-fueled hype around GameStop (GME) shares was in full swing.
Meme stocks are shares that swing wildly in value based on their popularity among trader communities on social media rather than the companies’ fundamental characteristics. The frenzy started with GameStop in 2021, extending to other companies such as AMC Entertainment (AMC) and Bed, Bath and Beyond, which has since filed for bankruptcy.
Shares of AMC Entertainment were up nearly 13% in morning trading on Monday.
Gill also sent GameStop shares soaring last month after posting a meme on X of a man leaning forward in a chair holding a video games console —his first post on that platform in three years. GameStop hadposted a similar cartoon back in February.
The meme is interpreted to mean “when things get serious,”according to website Know Your Meme.
Gill was one of the main posters on the WallStreetBets subreddit —a thread where Reddit users can post on a particular topic — which drove eye-popping rises in GameStop’s stock in 2021. Retail investors bid up the shares, targeting short-sellers, who had been betting on GameStop’s stock falling.
Short-sellers aim to make a profit by borrowing a particular company’s shares, selling them and returning them after purchasing them once they’ve fallen in price.
In 2021, in testimonyto US Congresson the GameStop mania,Gill described himself as a casual daytime trader. Healso saidhe did not set out to help stoke the GameStop frenzy and instead believed the stock offeredan attractive opportunity for investors.
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