Kohl’s stock soars and Opendoor sees massive volume
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Opendoor (OPEN) has become the latest meme stock phenomenon, surging 350% in the past month and 100% since hedge fund manager Eric Jackson began promoting it on social media as a potential “100-bagger.
The market saw a fresh meme stock frenzy this week. While high exuberance can be a contrarian sell signal, sources say the market is still in good shape.
Opendoor Technologies has recently gained favor as a meme stock and seen incredible valuation gains, but the company's share price is pulling back today as investors take profits on recent gains. Despite big sell-offs in today's session, the stock is still up 330% over the last month.
A surge in shares of residential real estate platform Opendoor Technologies has been boosted by the portfolio manager of a small Canada-based hedge fund, Eric Jackson.
Retail investors have begun to pile into speculative bets on small-cap companies in a buildup that resembles the meme stock frenzy of 2021.
Krispy Kreme (DNUT), Opendoor (OPEN), Rocket Mortgage (RKT) and Kohl’s (KSS) had become the meme stocks of the moment, along with a new moniker from traders — “DORK,” a reference to the first letters of their tickers.
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