GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) has re-emerged as the most-discussed stock on Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets forum after a long hiatus, while AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. (NYSE:AMC), Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) and BlackBerry Limited (NYSE:BB) are also seeing high interest on the forum as of Tuesday night.
What Happened: GameStop is seeing the highest interest on the forum with 1,577 mentions, while exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) was a distant second with 539 mentions, data from Quiver Quantitative showed.
Movie theatre chain AMC Entertainment and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba are in the third and fourth positions, having attracted 496 and 394 mentions, respectively.
Apart from Canada-based cybersecurity company BlackBerry, the other stocks that are trending on the forum include Medicare Advantage provider Clover Health Investments Corp. (NASDAQ:CLOV), Wish e-commerce platform operator ContextLogic Inc. (NASDAQ:WISH), chipmaker Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA), Chinese e-commerce company JD.com Inc. (NASDAQ:JD) and biotechnology company Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE).
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Why It Matters: GameStop is seeing renewed interest on the forum after the company’s shares surged more than 27% in Tuesday’s regular trading session amid heavy trading volume.
AMC Entertainment’s shares extended gains to a third straight day amid optimism that full approval by the FDA for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine could increase vaccination rates and improve movie theatre traffic in the future.
Shares of Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and JD.com, rebounded on Tuesday from a recent slump amid more clarity on the regulatory outlook for these companies in China. Better-than-expected earnings from JD.com also lifted the stocks.
Price Action: GameStop shares closed 27.5% higher in Tuesday’s regular trading session at $210.29 and further rose 0.5% in the after-hours session to $211.40.
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust shares closed almost 0.2% higher in the regular trading session at $447.97, but declined less than 0.1% in the after-hours session to $447.80.
AMC Entertainment shares closed 20.3% higher in the regular trading session at $44.26 and further rose almost 4.4% in the after-hours session to $46.20.
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