Game Stop Shares Rise On Large Stock Sale By The Company

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Meme mania back on: GameStop doubles after $200M position revealed on Reddit

Keith Gill’s Reddit account is suddenly lighting back up in a big way.

6/3/24 8:50AM

Shares of GameStop more than doubled overnight after a Reddit account associated with Keith Gill showed stock and derivative positions in the retailer worth over $200 million.

The u/DeepFuckingValue reddit account posted a screenshot of a brokerage account showing a 5 million shares of GameStop and a bullish options bet that the stock will be above $20 by June 21 that enables the holder to accumulate up to another 12 million shares.

Roaring Kitty’s account on Reddit showing stock position — DeepFuckingValue/Reddit

If such an option position, which is well in-the-money, was converted into shares, that account would hold 17 million shares of GameStop, or just under 5% of the company. According to Bloomberg data, that options position amounts to more than 80% of contracts outstanding for that expiry. This position appears to have been accumulated between May 20 through May 31 during a period in which GameStop traded as low as $17.70 and as high as $26.66.

More than $500 million in GameStop stock has changed hands during the pre-market session, through 8:00am ET. Other meme stock favorites including AMC Entertainment and Faraday Future Intelligent Electric are up more than double digits early on Monday.

This post was made on the Superstonk subreddit, while prior ones had been posted to r/wallstreetbets. At the time of publishing Sherwood News could not confirm the authenticity of this screenshot. The previous update from April 2021 showed the account owned roughly 0.3% of shares outstanding at that time, and held roughly $35 million in cash and GameStop stock.

The post on this subreddit coincided with a separate post on TheRoaringKitty’s X account of an Uno reverse card. This may be an affirmation of the theory that the string of clips posted in May were meant to be watched in reverse.

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— Roaring Kitty (@TheRoaringKitty) June 3, 2024

Let’s see how long it takes GameStop’s management to put together another shelf offering this time after raising $1 billion during the stock’s advance in May.

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Nike’s China business declines for seventh straight quarter

Sportswear kingpin Nike reported results for its third quarter, which ended in February, after the bell Tuesday. The stock fell about 3% in after-hours trading.

For fiscal Q3, Nike reported:

Earnings of $0.35 per share, comfortably above the Wall Street consensus of $0.29 per share compiled by FactSet.
$11.28 billion in total revenue, roughly in line with the $11.26 billion estimate.

Nike’s sales in China — where the company earns about 15% of its revenue — fell 7% to $1.62 billion. That’s its seventh straight quarter of sales declines in the market, though this quarter’s was less than feared. The company had issued weak guidance for this quarter considering continued softness in the region.

“This quarter we took meaningful actions to improve the health and quality of our business,” said Nike CEO Elliott Hill. “The pace of progress is different across the portfolio and the areas we prioritized first continue to drive momentum.”

Nike shares are trading near decade lows this month, as tariffs continue to weigh on profits and shipping costs rise amid the war with Iran. As of Tuesday’s close, the stock was down 17% year to date.

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Stocks end worst quarter since 2022 with best day since May

Optimism that the end of the war may be near sent stocks surging.

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Oil-sensitive travel stocks pop following Iran state media reporting on potential war resolution

Travel stocks are surging on Tuesday as oil prices fall following reports from Iranian state media that President Masoud Pezeshkian said the country has “the necessary will to end this war,” but would only do so with guarantees that “prevent the recurrence of aggression.”

The war has sent oil prices and refining margins surging this month, causing airlines and cruise lines to cut profit forecasts despite reported high demand.

Following Tuesday’s update, shares of the big four US airlines (Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, American Airlines, and Southwest Airlines) all climbed, along with smaller rivals including JetBlue. US airlines have stopped fuel hedging in recent years, increasing their exposure to upward swings in oil prices.

Cruise stocks also rallied, with Carnival and Norwegian up more than 6% and Royal Caribbean up about 5%.

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The FDA is expected to lift restrictions on certain peptides, the NYT reports

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to lift restrictions on certain peptides, allowing the experimental, often injectable substances to be sold by compounding pharmacies, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

The potential move was previously reported by The Wall Street Journal, and teased by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast in late February.

Peptides have boomed in popularity recently, with search interest for “peptides” surpassing “ozempic” this month. Many of them are currently understudied and not approved for human use, a rule consumers are able to bypass by purchasing them from suppliers that sell them for, ostensibly, research purposes only.

As reports of the FDA changing its stance of peptides mount, consumer health companies like Hims & Hers and Superpower have been getting ready to roll out their peptide offerings as soon as they get the FDA's blessing.

The peptide gold rush: How impending deregulation could supercharge a shadow industry

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Memory stocks bounce as Bernstein analyst calls TurboQuant fears “overdone”

Memory stocks rose Tuesday, after Bernstein analysts called the recent panic over Google’s TurboQuant AI algorithm “overdone.”

Bernstein analyst Mark Newman wrote:

“[Hard disk drive] and Memory stocks have sold off significantly due in part to fears from Google’s TurboQuant report. This however, should have zero impact on HDD demand and negligible impact on NAND demand. Given the stock sell-off we see this as an attractive entry point for Seagate Technology Holdings, Western Digital and Sandisk’s and upgrade WDC to Outperform.”

All three stocks were up early Tuesday, as was memory chip maker Micron.

Today’s rally stands in stark contrast to the pummeling these shares have endured over the last week, after Google Research published a technical paper on March 24 detailing its TurboQuant AI algorithm, which compresses the amount of data associated with AI operations without affecting the accuracy of AI models.

That was seen as a threat to surging AI demand for memory storage, which has supercharged prices for memory chips and memory-related stocks over the last year.