How to Use meme stock in a Sentence

meme stock

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  • At the peak of the meme stock frenzy this past month, the company’s shares traded at a high of $48.75.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 28 May 2024
  • Enough people snatched up shares of meme stocks that even major hedge funds took a hit.
    — Nick Kasmik, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2024
  • But with the help from meme stock investors, the company in March turned its first profit in two years.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 7 June 2024
  • But in other ways, Trump Media isn’t acting like a meme stock at all.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But its stock’s resurgence comes in the midst of a larger spike of activity in meme stocks.
    — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 13 May 2024
  • The company had seen its share price soar during the pandemic, joining the likes of GameStop as a meme stock.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 8 May 2024
  • GameStop raised $933 million by selling shares to cash in on a meme stock rally last month, when the stock doubled in value.
    — Medha Singh, USA TODAY, 3 June 2024
  • Has the David versus Goliath nature of meme stocks shifted?
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 15 June 2024
  • People have compared it to a meme stock, but even meme stocks had this run that lasted months backed by the people or whatever.
    — Andy Mills, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
  • That's how much Carvana shares have risen since Oct. 30, as part of a rally that has buoyed meme stocks, crypto ventures and blank-check companies.
    — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Crypto, meme stocks, collectibles, real estate — all of it was going up, and there was more cash going around than tech founders knew what to do with.
    — Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Now, searches for the storied investor who found fame during the meme stock era have sunk well below their 2021 peak, according to Google Trends.
    — Emily Graffeo, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Unlike the meme stocks, other favorite asset classes for day traders have performed well this year.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 15 May 2024
  • The trading platform that in 2021 became synonymous with meme stocks has opened a wait list for U.K. residents.
    — WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Shares of the movie theater chain AMC, another pandemic-era meme stock, vaulted more than 10% on Monday morning.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 June 2024
  • Keith Gill, the meme stock investor who sent GameStop shares surging during the pandemic, has taken out a multimillion stake in Chewy.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 1 July 2024
  • This kind of financial nihilism resulted in meme stock trading, which Musk himself has dabbled in.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 14 June 2024
  • Trump Media has been frequently compared to a meme stock that trades on momentum and hype, not fundamentals.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 July 2024
  • Other meme stocks from the pandemic era are moving just as radically.
    — Stan Choe, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
  • The shares have become an expensive way for speculators to treat the stock market as a casino, raising memories of 2021’s meme stock mania.
    — Bailey Lipschultz, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Trump Media has become a meme stock, where the stock price is governed more by vibes than traditional financial performance.
    — William Turton, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Other meme stocks also jumped, including AMC, which increased 22%, and Reddit, which increased 13%.
    — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 13 May 2024
  • Like its competitor Robinhood, Public was a beneficiary of the 2021 meme stock frenzy and offers a window into how younger people (for the most part) like to invest.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The trampoline-like performance of the company is becoming something of a pattern as retail investors battle short sellers over the meme stock.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 May 2024
  • GameStop, whose meme stock generated buzz on Wall Street, has struggled with poor sales and executive turnover as video game streaming and digital game downloads eat at its profits.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • With higher education no longer a sure bet, college-age students should consider better uses of their time and money, such as meme stocks or becoming ski bums.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 17 May 2024
  • GameStop, of course, was the original meme stock and remains popular with members of Reddit’s r/wallstreetbets community.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Wall Street analysts have warned about the risks of investing in highly volatile meme stocks, which typically belong to money-losing companies.
    — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 15 May 2024
  • On Reddit, investors later discussed what cryptocurrency is equivalent to meme stock GameStop — and the answer was Dogecoin.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Mark Kelly After the meme stock craze in early 2021, progressives accused hedge funds of market manipulation.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023

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