Kohl, stock and Reddit
Digest more
WallStreetBets, the infamous subreddit credited with helping to spawn the meme-stock phenomenon, is giving its regular readers a taste of what it was like during the trend’s heyday in early 2021.
As of noon Wednesday, the price of Opendoor stock had fallen to $2.05. That’s a drop of nearly 50% in just a few hours of trading.
Krispy Kreme and GoPro were among the companies riding the latest meme stock rally on Wednesday, as retail traders latched on to the highly shorted names a day after piling into the shares of department store company Kohl's.
Kohl's and Krispy Kreme have been subject of online chatter, including on WallStreetBets, about their potential. Rocket Companies is up 6%.
The equity price of iBuyer pioneer Opendoor has surged, and it appears entirely driven by Reddit’s infamous Wall Street Bets subreddit.
The latest meme-stock frenzy shows that “market psychology and crowd behavior can sometimes matter more than the numbers,” says Capital.com analyst Daniela Sabin Hathorn