Redbox (NASDAQ:RDBX) stock is rocketing higher on Monday despite a lack of news from the company.
Let’s go over everything investors need to know about RDBX stock today.
- First off, note that the movie rental service is seeing incredibly heavy trading today.
- As of this writing, more than 62 million shares of the stock have changed hands.
- That’s well above its daily average trading volume of 5.4 million shares.
- This surge in trading resulted in RDBX stock experiencing two trading halts this morning.
- The initial trading halt started at 9:40 a.m. Eastern and lasted for five minutes.
- A second halt went into effect at 9:50 a.m. Eastern and lasted for another five minutes.
- So without any news from Redbox itself, what has shares of the stock on the move today?
- It looks like we can attribute this rise to traders targeting the company’s shares for a short squeeze.
- That’s resulted in plenty of social media chatter about the company on both Stocktwits and Twitter.
- We’ve recently seen RDBX stock undergo a similar short squeeze.
- This took place last week alongside news that the company’s CFO was stepping down.
- While an executive departure typically causes a drop in stock value, that wasn’t the case.
- Instead, traders used the news as an opportunity to pump up shares of the stock in an effort to force out bears.
- It looks like that might become an ongoing trend if today’s movement is anything to go by.
RDBX stock is up 40.8% as of Monday morning but is only up 18.5% since the start of the year.
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