GME is certainly an outlier over 10y. One of a few. If one looks in specific years GME looks rather normal in this group of 300-400 outliers.
So, yes, GME is probably sold many times the outstanding shares, but so are a lot of other stocks, too.
Though, not many have RC.
Thank you jersan! I 90% agree with your comment. From the outside it looks like an unprofitable business, though sitting on a pile of cash only offering lofty promises. Once GME is profitable it will be easier to onboard new investors and also encourage old investors.
To the “explode” part rather want to stress that another main point of my post is: DRS is not enough. Not enough for what? Like I wrote in my post about price elasticity (https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/206100 or https://www.reddit.com/r/whydrs/comments/16ijwv0/tales_of_the_death_of_the_liquidity_fairy_price/) I think there are two levels:
With the current system of stock market exchanges no matter what the company does, it is very unlikely we see level 2. The price might be adjusted for Level 1, but shorts won’t close. They rather will hedge and make even more money with derivatives.
If you think otherwise, try to dig into the “Tesla shortsqueeze” and check who actually lost, which hedge fund had to be closed because of the closing of naked shorts.
You mean how the former GameStop CFO fkd up the splividend and kind of allowed the DTC to handle it as a normal split? (See: https://www.reddit.com/r/FWFBThinkTank/comments/14p3fmp/deep_dive_into_how_the_dtcc_and_brokers_handled/)
He left GME immediately and returned to Amazon.
Did the old Transfer Agent let you know in advance?
Oh it did stayed up in r/gme https://twitter.com/AmaniYubyoung/status/1692550742945435888
While superstonk deleted it. I asked why and they said I should link the source, I gave the source and they said I should provide the page number (since it’s 209 pages). Thats now 2 days ago, didn’t here back.
Cool you are here!
Do DSPP shares ever leave the DTC?
Regarding the float, that statement is false. Actually, the GameStop float was negative for many years as institutions alone held well over 100% of outstanding shares (see e.g. https://i.redd.it/c44cmb67mtf61.png).
Welcome. I was also blown away by it…
Thinking about other ways to avoid brokers being able to unDRS I found that one may also just change account address details:
“So basically, brokers aren’t supposed to do this, but can, and if they do, there’s really nothing stopping them since there’s no check first to see if there was permission from the account holder. […] In the meantime, as suggested by the reps, if possible, change some account info so it doesn’t match what your broker has on file, like changing Street to St or adding a middle initial.” (https://www.reddit.com/r/computershare/comments/xfcpq3/comment/ioltp8n/)
Also on Twitter there is a discussion about “stop trades” and one of the things it would help with is brokers being able to unDRS. Either a new account or changing address details would do the trick also.
So, we know the price kept going down since this post, so the hypothesis was partly right:
Since nearly a year the price is boring af and sticks around $20-$25. Also the DRS numbers don’t show a steep increase, rather a steadily plateauing:
So everybody lost their interest? The splividend showed deep fukry, we had a profitable quarter, RC is now executive chairman, there is $1.3bn in cash - no bankruptcy in sight, although the new marketplace/nfts didn’t lift off yet.
So in this stagnation, is there an opportunity? This is what my head can’t stop thinking about.
Thank you. Much luv!
Absolutely, even if this wasn’t the main target, censorship gets way harder to proof. At the beginning of my DD I thought it was most likely that reddit (radmins) only acts passively. But as I finished and reddit banned DRSyourGME and more subs I now think it most likely reddit itself is deeply involved in censoring GME.
Always welcome! Thanks for sharing your story my friend.
At least there are some things very suspicious. E.g. a post of me got shadow banned in the Jungle mentioning that Fidality got a stake in Discord. I learned of this only when I did this DD.
Further there is a deleted post promoting switching from plan to book while also KEEPING fractionals, which in the light of heatlamp looks strange “Don’t feed the hedgies like I accidentally did. You can keep fractional shares enrolled in the plan to keep from selling them, and that also keeps the account open that enables you to buy more” (http://web.archive.org/web/20211222202615/https://www.reddit.com/r/GMEJungle/comments/rmdy5s/book_vs_plan_at_computershare_yes_there_is_a/).
Yes, I don’t think a privately run server could withstand … As soon as the audience grows big enough, there is a high chance this will be taken down, at least I fear so.
Thank you. Yes total volume for 10y and avg daily FTD for the same period. A very good question! See:
Indeed GME was always on the top, but became the outlier during the sneeze in terms of volume. If I would redo the graph I think BBBY would have a similar position.