GameStop Trading Halted, AMC Jumps

Topline Shares of two meme stocks surged higher on Thursday, boosted by retail investors despite the wider market selloff, as GameStop’s stock was halted several times for volatility after rising more...

Avoid Low ROIC Businesses In Turbulent Markets: GameStop (GME)

Facade with sign and logo at Game Stop video gaming store in Dublin, California, August 23, 2018. … [+] (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Getty Images A difficult economic environmen...

Market’s 2022 Slide Has Already Changed Investor Behavior

The 2022 pullback in U.S. stocks intensified last week, with stocks on Thursday staging their largest single-day decline since the onset of the pandemic. The plunge came just a day after Federal Reser...

Redbox stock surge continues, but don’t call it a short squeeze

Shares of Redbox Entertainment Inc. were continuing their massive surge Monday, which analysts saw as reflective of increased investor comfort in the wake of recent financing announcements as well as ...

Stock Splits Are Popular Again. 5 Companies That Could Split Their Stocks Next

Stock splits are back in vogue, and the market is quickly rewarding companies that divide their shares. Google parent Alphabet , Amazon.com , Tesla , and GameStop are among the latest companies to see...

A big shift is under way for markets, and old Warren Buffett shareholder letters point to which companies will survive

Given a war and inflation have marked the start of 2022, investors would be forgiven for holding their breath over the rest of the year’s offerings. Our call of the day from a team at Saxo Bank sees a...

Missed the Dip in Stocks? Where to Find Yields of 3% to 6%.

I sneezed, and missed the buying opportunity in stocks. The S&P 500 was down 13% at one point this year. It ended the first quarter with a loss of just 4.6%, including dividends. But all of the ba...

Investors are fed up with Netflix and Facebook’s parent. Why this portfolio manager is digging in and buying more.

It has been a quarter to forget for two of the megacap tech giants, Netflix and Facebook parent Meta Platforms. The 34% decline for Meta FB was its worst on record — the 30% drop in the third quarter ...

GME Shares Surge Over 10% as GameStop Seeks Shareholder Nod for Stock Split

GameStop plans to propose a stock split of company shares to its shareholder base in order to attract more retail investors. Shares of GameStop Corp (NYSE: GME), the world’s largest retail and trade-i...

Hycroft Mining stock’s ‘memester’-induced rocket ride is making AMC a lot of money

Shares of Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. rallied in very active trading Tuesday, as the gold and silver miner enjoyed its new meme-like status, with help from new investor AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc...

GME and AMC halted for volatility amid mini meme stock boom

GameStop (GME) and AMC (AMC) shares were both briefly halted for volatility on Tuesday morning amid a recent rally in ‘meme stocks’. Shares of the video game retailer surged to $199 a piec...

GameStop Stock Saw a Third Large Insider Buy

Text size A GameStop store Spencer Platt/Getty Images Maybe the new meme is open-market stock purchases by insiders. GameStop (ticker: GME) just saw its third insider stock purchase in as many days, a...

GameStop stock shows rare resiliency as it rises to longest win streak in more than 4 years

Shares of GameStop Corp. continued to charge higher Friday, to extend the win streak that started nine trading days ago, after they closed at a one-year low. The videogame and consumer electronics ret...

GameStop Stock Saw Two Big Insider Purchases

Text size GameStop stock has slipped in recent months. Chairman Ryan Cohen and director Larry Cheng made big share purchases last week. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images GameStop stock had two material ins...

What Ryan Cohen’s Insider Buys Say About GameStop’s True Value

Text size GameStop stock can take investors on a wild ride. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Just when meme stocks seemed down for the count, Chewy co-founder Ryan Cohen stepped in and bought 100,000 shar...

GameStop Stock Was on a Tear. Ryan Cohen Bought More Shares.

Chairman Ryan Cohen snapped up 100,000 more shares in GameStop, boosting his holding to 11.9%. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Text size GameStop stock has been on an absolute tear over the past seve...

Opinion: GameStop shares soar 30% and take other meme stocks on a ride, after Reddit poster touts shares at a ‘58.2%’ discount

The thing about meme stocks is that sometimes they move like meme stocks. Shares of GameStop GME, +14.50% and AMC Entertainment AMC, +13.58% rocketed upward Tuesday, helping to create a draft for rela...

Loopring (LRC) Price Soars By 42% Following Gamestop (GME) Partnership

Loopring (LRC), a decentralized exchange (DEX), announce that the GameStop NFT marketplace built on Loopring L2 is now live. However, this will be the Beta version as the full marketplace will be laun...

AMC Stock Rises After GameStop Earnings. What It Says About the Meme Trade.

Text size Meme stock GameStop posted a surprise quarterly loss. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images A number of familiar “meme” stocks were on the move Friday after GameStop —the most popular meme stock ...

GameStop (GME) Q4 2021 earnings

A mall visitor walks be a GameStop store on December 08, 2021 in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images GameStop shares on Thursday fell more than 8% in extended trading, after the vid...

GameStop Earnings Are Today. Don’t Expect to Learn Much About Its New Strategy.

Text size Wall Street analysts expect GameStop to report fourth-quarter sales of $2.16 billion Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images GameStop is set to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after the marke...

Stock Market Today: Dow Falls, Gold and Oil Surge, Bed Bath & Beyond Soars

Text size Gold prices marched higher Monday, as investors fled to havens amid declines in stocks. DAVID GRAY/AFP/Getty Images Stocks plunged Monday and investors sought havens as oil prices hit the hi...

Chewy Co-Founder Ryan Cohen Takes Large Stake in Bed Bath & Beyond, Pushes for Changes

Ryan Cohen, the billionaire co-founder of online pet-products retailer Chewy Inc., CHWY 2.91% has a big stake in Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY -3.40% and is pushing the housewares retailer to stream...

SEC proposes new rule requiring short-sellers to disclose their positions monthly

Gary Gensler has been circling short-sellers for months, and now the Securities and Exchange Commission chief is looking to make a big move. Under a new rule proposed by the SEC Friday morning, some i...

Opinion: Meme stocks soar on bad news for Melvin Capital and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Shares in GameStop GME, +8.45% closed up 8.5% Thursday, while stock in AMC Entertainment AMC, +12.40% soared 12.4% as retail investors digested global unrest and some trouble for one —or maybe two— Wa...

How Much Is Trump’s New Social-Media Company Worth? Traders Can’t Decide

Traders are struggling to place a consistent value on Donald Trump’s new social-media venture, a business that hasn’t offered much in the way of details but one that supporters think is destined to ta...

Who Really Got Rich From the GameStop Revolution?

When Reddit became the rowdy center of the investing universe last January, its co-founder Alexis Ohanian called the frenzy a “revolution” and a “chance for Joe and Jane America, the retail buyers of ...

When to stop investing in the stock market? Wild price swings are shaking the resolve of some: Is it time to bail out of equities and bonds?

Is it time to bail out of stocks and bonds? This isn’t the market that investors likely signed up for back in 2021 when shares in GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69% and movie chain AMC Entertainment Holdings ...

Weekend reads: Robinhood’s bad news — and a bit of good news

It’s been a year since Robinhood Markets Inc. HOOD, +9.65% briefly suspended “buy” orders for GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69%, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC, +3.72% and other meme stocks. The brokera...

Robinhood Has Lost its One True Advantage

Text size Robinhood’s stock was trading higher on Friday even after disappointing fourth-quarter results. Dreamstime Robinhood Markets posted a wider-than-expected loss in the fourth quarter and...

Hedge Fund Melvin Lost $6.8 Billion in a Month. Winning It Back Is Taking a Lot Longer.

Gabe Plotkin wasn’t sleeping. His bets against meme stocks such as GameStop Corp. GME 4.69% were backfiring, and losses at his $12.5 billion hedge fund were mounting. Strangers angry about his wagers ...

Where Six Meme Stock Investors Are Now

Some regret their exuberance. Others value the lessons they learned. Still others are convinced big profits lie ahead. Months after interviewing them in 2021, we checked back in with some of the inves...