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Return of the Meme Stock? 3/27/24

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Management, Cnbc, Tech, Faang, Investing, Business, Disruptors, Technology

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A new class of meme stocks has arrived. Trump Media, or DJT, is perhaps the most divorced from fundamentals. The newly-merged SPAC closed yesterday with a nearly $8 billion market cap and is up 17% today. Newly-public Reddit has also been also volatile – up nearly 70% since its IPO but falling 11% today. It all underscores a market that is increasingly driven by momentum… and retail investors.

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0:00.0

There might be a new meme stock on the block shares of Trump media DJT up 40% in the first day of trading

0:06.8

surging again today.

0:08.3

Our Deirdre Bosa taking a look at the new wave of meme stocks in today is Tech Check.

0:13.3

Morning, dear.

0:15.3

Good morning, that's right.

0:16.5

So this new class has arrived.

0:18.9

You don't know how long it's going to last,

0:20.4

but the most divorce from fundamentals has got to be by a long shot DJT.

0:25.6

Trump Media and Technology Group closed yesterday at a market cap of nearly $8 billion.

0:30.5

It's up another nearly 20% today. There's newly public Reddit as well up nearly 70% from its IPO price but volatile as mean stocks are down 12% today

0:41.4

But as a whole those two stocks really underscore market that is

0:45.4

increasingly driven by momentum and retail investors. Like the last meme

0:50.3

stock wave of 2021 though buyers beware

0:53.4

Reddit's price to sales multiple is now higher than that of other

0:57.3

more profitable social media names meta snap Pinterest

1:01.0

and at the same time it hasn't gotten so out of hand that it has

1:04.9

surpassed in video which I'm just showing here as a benchmark for a momentum stock

1:09.5

that is driven by fundamentals not calling it a meme stock by any means.

1:13.4

Now look at what happens when you add DJT to the mix.

1:18.0

This is a very unique meme stock.

1:20.0

So this next screen, you're seeing that it has just 3.4 million dollars in sales for the first nine months of the year giving it a price to sales multiple of more than 2,000 times.

1:30.6

So that obviously blows the others out of the water even in video and you can barely even see them in this chart.

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