
What is the next best meme stock?
- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN)
- Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB)
- Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)
- Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)
- Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW)
- Palantir (NYSE:PLTR)
- SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY)
What is a new meme stock?
Are meme stocks still a thing?
What are these meme stocks?
Is NIO a meme stock?
Is BlackBerry a meme stock?
Is AMC set up for a short squeeze?
How big is the meme market?
What are hedge funds buying?
Should I invest in meme stocks?
Who is the father of memes?
Is Pltr a meme stock?
Reddit's retail investors may soon be swooning over this under-the-radar trio of heavily short-sold companies
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Meme stocks come into focus
While not an all-encompassing description, retail investors from Reddit and other social media chatrooms have been banding together and seeking out stocks with high levels of short interest. Since a large percentage of short-sellers are institutional investors or hedge funds, the rise of the retail investor has taken on the feel of a David vs.
Blink Charging
First up is electric-vehicle (EV) charging products and services network Blink Charging ( NASDAQ:BLNK).
Dave & Buster's
Although it's been off the radar on the WallStreetBets chat boards, entertainment and dining chain Dave & Buster's ( NASDAQ:PLAY) may well be the next meme stock. If anything, the company's ticker symbol (PLAY) is the perfect kick-starter for retail investors.
Intercept Pharmaceuticals
It's also possible that small-cap biotech stock Intercept Pharmaceuticals ( NASDAQ:ICPT) becomes the next Reddit meme stock.
Top meme stocks now
Retail investors are always searching for stocks to send "to the moon." Below are some of the hottest names that social media users are buzzing about during the week of September 6.
How to trade meme stocks
Trading meme stocks isn't as simple as it sounds. It takes hours to surf through Reddit forums for the next trendy stock, and it requires a huge, carefully coordinated online movement to send individual stocks spiking.
How the meme stock movement began
GameStop is widely considered to be the first meme stock. The long-beleaguered video-game retailer suffered for years as its sales were cannibalized by e-commerce giants like Amazon and by the video-game industry's shift to online games. Its C-suite became a revolving door for executives: Three different CEOs led the firm in 2018 alone.
Trending
GameStop's miraculous surge began in January 2021 after Ryan Cohen, the founder of online pet-store company Chewy, joined the company's board and inspired optimism among investors. Cohen could spearhead GameStop's e-commerce efforts and help the company get back on track, investors believed.
What to know about the dangers of meme stocks
If getting rich off meme stocks were easy, thousands of Redditors would be millionaires.
How to find the next meme stock
It’s actually not too difficult to identify potential meme stocks, says Matthew Tuttle, chief executive of Tuttle Capital Management, which recently launched the FOMO ETF, a fund attempting to actually capitalize on the hype around meme stocks while limiting risk.
Are meme stocks scams?
Investors are always told to be on the lookout for pump-and-dump schemes in which fraudsters create a buying frenzy around a stock by spreading false or misleading information, then sell their shares once the price has been jacked up.
Should you invest in meme stocks?
If you still want to try to take advantage of the meme stock frenzy, you can do it responsibly.
