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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Alternatively, short sellers simply deciding to cut their losses and get out (rather than lacking collateral funds to meet their margin) can cause a squeeze. Short squeezes can also occur when the demand from short sellers outweighs the supply of shares to borrow, which results in the failure of borrow requests from prime brokers. This ...
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 ...
The short position adopted by Melvin Capital and others resulted in more than 139% of existing shares of GME being shorted, making GameStop stock the most shorted equity in the world. [31] Through the end of January 2021, the fund was down 53%, according to WSJ . [ 5 ]