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GameStop stock soars after 'Roaring Kitty' reveals $175M bet

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Re: GameStop stock soars after 'Roaring Kitty' reveals $175M bet

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I believe you haven't missed anything. The research on GME going up by thousands of dollars is compelling. You can wade through the cesspool that is the r/GME subreddit and read it all. I've come away believing the apes are right. As of now, GME has 2 billion USD cash on hand. They wouldn't go bankrupt for over 350 months even if they didn't make a single penny. And they are making pennies! Lots of them! And they're…

During this entire GME scam stock saga, the company has lost over $1b, is still not a profitable company, and has no foreseeable future being a profitable company selling physical game copies in a digital world. Their stores are closing left and right. If you've never looked at their balance sheet and don't even know how to read a balance sheet, then you don't know what you're doing. The fundamentals are garbage and…

There is a world in which EU digital markets regulations force platform holders to sell (far more than they do now) codes for digital games through GameStop and they become an online-only retailer.

Re: GameStop stock soars after 'Roaring Kitty' reveals $175M bet

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economists, educate me please. people buy shares, the company sells shares, pay the ceo and skeleton staff, and then what? how anyone make money on that besides pump and dump?

If the company is actually being valued correctly, the company makes a profit using the capital off of the share sales, then re-distributes that to shareholders with dividends or share buybacks, everyone wins. If not, then the company executives and employees get their salaries and bonuses for a bit longer, and anyone in the market who rides the wave correctly wins at the expense of anyone who does not.

yes yes, that's common knowledge. but in this case, gamestop is nothing. nada. you're buying a company that just hold rent to unprofitable stores. so... what's the angle here? mass hysteria?

Re: GameStop stock soars after 'Roaring Kitty' reveals $175M bet

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economists, educate me please. people buy shares, the company sells shares, pay the ceo and skeleton staff, and then what? how anyone make money on that besides pump and dump?

we're trended towards being able to monetize attention and popularity in the last couple years. memestocks are just a manifestation of this. you buy because you have faith in x. you sell because you lost faith.

so you're betting on a casino who takes from your betting pool to pay rent and staff for "the chips"?
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