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Wall Street Breakfast

Meme stock vibes return as GameStop soars

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Roaring Kitty tweets and GameStop is off to the races. (0:16) Consumer expecting stickier inflation ahead. (2:15) The best pain trades for bulls and bears. (4:53)

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Lunch, our afternoon update on today's market action news and analysis.

0:11.0

Good afternoon. Today is Monday, May 13th, and I'm your host Kim Kahn. Our top story so far.

0:16.8

Team Mem is back on the case. GameStop is reminding the market of 2021 with a sudden

0:22.1

rally that sent shares up more than 100% at one point this

0:25.0

morning. They are now off the highs up about 60%. The spark today was the return of Keith Gill,

0:31.2

aka Roaring Kitty, the trader whose thesis on GME lit the fuse on the mean

0:36.0

frenzy three years ago. Game Stop Bulls piled in with a familiar zeal and an aim of punishing

0:41.5

shorts. Roaring Kitty tweeted for the first time in nearly three years.

0:45.0

He simply posted a meme of a man leaning forward,

0:48.0

but GME fans got the message that he was taking notice of the recent action.

0:52.0

Hammerstone Markets notes that Gilmett that he was taking notice of the recent action.

0:53.0

Hammerstone Markets notes that Gill never sold his GameStop shares,

0:57.0

which many people assumed he did, hence his silence.

1:00.0

Gill's GMA steak was worth $48 million at the height of the Game Stop Mean Bubble.

1:05.0

If he still owns all 200,000 shares that he had in 2021,

1:08.8

his steak is worth $5.4 million on this morning's self-generated rally, they said.

1:14.0

The kitty also got the apes fired up.

1:16.2

AMC and other protagonists in the mean stock surge is up 30%.

1:20.9

Other highly shorted consumer stocks, seeing gains include New Egg Commerce, Beyond,

1:26.2

I-Robot, Children's Place, Vinfast Auto, Canoe, Petco Health and Wellness, and Tupperware Brands. The Game Stop Run started on May 2nd

1:35.7

with a jump of 16% on volume of more than 8 million shares about three times higher

1:40.4

than the previous session. Volume top 36 million on Friday, even though shares shed 3%.

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