Amesite (NASDAQ:AMST) stock is seeing massive movement on Friday despite a lack of news concerning the company.
Here’s what to know about the strange trading for AMST stock today.
- So why are shares of the online learnings company on the rise?
- It likely has to do with retail traders on social media.
- These traders often pick out cheap stocks to pump up the price before taking off with the profits.
- The idea of retail traders taking a liking to AMST stock isn’t too surprising.
- The low price point of the stock makes it an easy target for manipulation.
- This holds true for just about any penny stock.
- What’s interesting about today’s movement is that AMST isn’t getting much talk on Reddit.
- Typically, the price boosting for stocks like this come from some Reddit message boards.
- However, that’s not the case today.
- Instead, it looks like other forms of social media are where these retail traders are collecting.
- Many over on Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) are sharing memes about the stock and calling for others to jump in and boost the price even further.
- So far that plan is working.
- AMST stock is seeing much heavier trading today than what’s normal for it.
- As of this writing, more than 37 million shares of the stock have changed hands.
- That’s a major spike in trading compared to the company’s daily average trading volume of only about 573,000 shares.
AMST stock was up 13.9% as of Friday afternoon, which continues a rally that started yesterday. Even so, shares of the stock are still down 30% since the start of the year.
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