meme stock
meme stock noun: a company's stock that gains popularity among retail investors through social media.
Noun
meme stock (plural meme stocks)
- A company's stock that gains popularity among retail investors through social media.
- Journalists covering the story have tended to gesture towards possible impetuses, and there are undoubtedly many underlying factors that led to r/wallstreetbets’ choosing GameStop as a “meme stock”, which have surely evolved with the saga (screwing Wall Street; making money; a genuine belief in the...2021 January 28, Dan Dixon, “Anarchy, in-jokes and trolling: the GameStop fiasco is 4chan-think in action”, in The Guardian
- Individual YOLO decisions can be chalked up to many factors: cabin fever, low interest rates, the emergence of new get-rich-quick schemes like NFTs and meme stocks.2021 April 21, Kevin Roose, “Welcome to the YOLO Economy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Forms of meme stock
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Questions about meme stock
- What does meme stock mean?
- Meme stock means a company's stock that gains popularity among retail investors through social media.
- What part of speech is meme stock?
- Meme stock is a noun.
- What is the plural of meme stock?
- The plural of meme stock is meme stocks.
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