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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.
Dumb Money is a 2023 American biographical comedy-drama film, directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. It is based on the 2021 book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich and chronicles the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021.
Gaming Wall St is a documentary television miniseries directed by Tobias Deml and narrated by Kieran Culkin. [1] [2] The two-episode series was released on March 3, 2022 on HBO Max.
A GameStop store in a mall. In September 2019, Gill, under the username "u/DeepFuckingValue", posted on the subreddit r/wallstreetbets a screenshot of a trade consisting of a roughly $53,000 long position in GameStop; [8] Gill's Reddit posts and YouTube videos argued (through both fundamental and technical analysis) that the stock was undervalued. [3]
The documentary chronicles the GameStop short squeeze of 2021 which saw GameStop's stock rise over 2,500% amidst rampant volatility. This story is told mostly from the viewpoint of several value investors who participated in sharing their due diligence on social media, most notably Roaring Kitty's YouTube streams.
During the GameStop short squeeze of 2021, it sustained losses of 53% or $6.8 billion, at one point losing more than a billion dollars a day; [5] [6] in Q1 2021, the firm's assets declined 49%, and it finished 2021 down more than 39% on the year, during which the S&P 500 rose 28.7%.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. Canadian entrepreneur and investor (born 1986) Ryan Cohen Cohen in 2019 Born 1986 (age 38–39) Montreal, Quebec, Canada Occupations Entrepreneur activist investor Known for Founder and CEO of Chewy (2011–2018) Executive Chairman of GameStop (2021–present) Signature Ryan Cohen (born ...
(Reuters) -GameStop's shares jumped on Thursday after a cryptic post from meme stock influencer Keith Gill, who shot to notoriety after his online personas and bullish bets on the video game ...