• beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    Maybe this is a dumb question, but how does the day to day health of the reddit community affect the stock price? Wouldn’t a simpler explanation be that reddit stock is in decline like most other stocks right now because of the overall market uncertainty?

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      5 days ago

      It could indicate that investors don’t like these moves and see it as a risk for the future of the company. Or it could indicate that line goes up or down randomly, who knows, not the folks on wall street that’s for sure.

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      Stock prices are mostly speculation these days, thay don’t reflect the actual financial standing of a company, but more the public perception of the company. People get pissed at reddit, dump the shares they were holding and the demand drops, so the price goes down. …I think.