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A GameStop store in 2014. GameStop, an American chain of brick-and-mortar video game stores, had struggled in the years leading up to the short squeeze due to competition from digital distribution services, as well as the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced the number of people who shopped in-person.
Short interest on GameStop sits at around 24% of the float, according to S3 Partners data. "Including today's losses, GME shorts are now down -$1.34 billion in May month-to-date losses, and now ...
Short interest in GameStop stands at around $1.3 billion with 52.9 million shares shorted, per the latest available figures from S3 Partners. Not all outstanding shares of a company are made ...
Investor pessimism, however, has quietly turned GME stock into a short-squeeze candidate. Sagging trading volume means that it would take tr. Editor’s note: This article was updated on Oct. 18 ...
Interest in meme stocks started in 2020, [4] in what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has called a "meme stock phenomenon". [12] The stock of American video game retailer GameStop has been one of the most popular meme stocks, [13] [14] with mass purchases of the stock leading to a short squeeze on GameStop in early 2021. [5]
In January 2021, Cohen's hedge fund Point72 joined Ken Griffin's Citadel in putting $2.75 billion into Melvin Capital, the hedge fund of former Cohen protege Gabe Plotkin, as a result of the GameStop short squeeze. [27] [28] Cohen denied that his involvement with the short squeeze would affect his willingness to spend money on the New York Mets ...
GameStop stock tanked more than 18% Wednesday as a rally among meme names showed signs of fading.Shares of the video game retailer are coming off a two-day short squeeze. GameStop stock gained ...
Gill helped spearhead the massive rally in GameStop stock at the end of 2020 and the start of 2021, sending shares hundreds of percent higher. Gill’s X account suddenly became active in May ...