Meme Stocks Explained: To the Moon or Crash and Burn?

6 original charts that show returns, risk, trading volume, short-interest, and outlook for meme stocks versus FAANG stocks

Stephen Foerster
12 min readJun 9, 2021

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Photos by Bill Jelen on Unsplash and by NASA on Unsplash

The stock prices of GameStop Corp. (GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (AMC) continue on their wild rides in 2021. This year AMC is up over 2,600 percent percent…

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Stephen Foerster

I’m a Finance prof, CFA, and author of In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio (with Andrew Lo). I write stories about investing. (I don’t give financial advice.)