Express (NYSE:EXPR) stock is surging higher on Monday as social media investors boost the stock higher.

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Here’s everything potential investors need to know about the recent rise in EXPR stock.

• Social media investors have been flocking to retail stocks and pushing them higher with shorts.
• Express, a retailer based out of Ohio, is not immune to this as shares of EXPR stock have been on the rise lately.
• The push for these shares to go higher comes from groups across various websites, such as Reddit.
• There’s actually a whole subreddit dedicated to this kind of trading called WallStreetBets (WSB).
• These investors make use of the Robinhood app as it offers quick access to the stock market and makes trading easy.
• Keeping this in mind, EXPR stock has traded more than 177 million shares as of this writing.

• To put that in perspective, its daily average trading volume is 7.3 million shares.
• EXPR stock is far from the only company targeted by these investors.
• GameStop (NYSE:GME) has also seen a surge in its stock as the WSB subreddit boosts shares higher.
• This actually led to a conflict with Citron Research founder and analyst Andrew Left.
• Left took a bearish stance on GME stock and that upset some of these investors.
• He was then allegedly targeted and doxxed by them and Citron Research decided to stop covering the stock as a result.

EXPR stock was up 98.9% as of Monday morning.

On the date of publication, William White did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article.