Previous close | 0.0900 |
Open | 0.1200 |
Bid | 0.0000 |
Ask | 0.0000 |
Strike | 6.00 |
Expiry date | 2024-10-18 |
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Open interest | 415 |
Shares of GameStop are soaring before the market open on Monday following speculation that the man at the center of the pandemic meme stock craze owns a large number of shares of the video game retailer that may be worth millions. GameStock's stock jumped more than 87% in premarket trading. Keith Gill, better known as “Roaring Kitty" on social media platforms YouTube and X, also goes by the name Deep F- - - - - - Value on Reddit.
Keith Gill, writing on Reddit, posted a screen shot that shows he has a $181.4 million position in the meme favorite.
Roughly $390 million worth of GameStop shares had changed hands by 5:53 a.m. ET (0953 GMT), more than the $343 million in Wall Street favourite Nvidia , according to LSEG data. It was the first post in three years from Gill's Reddit account, where screenshots of his bullish GameStop trades had in 2021 triggered a rush of demand for "meme stocks" - often companies with weak fundamentals that gained a cult-like following through social media hype. The screenshot posted on Sunday showed a GameStop holding of 5 million, or 1.8% of its publicly available stock.