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by jeffbee 778 days ago
Truth Social, meanwhile, gained 10% today, now worth $5 billion on the revenues of a local taco chain and the net losses of a foundering 19th-century industrial empire. So we can stop pretending that stock prices mean things.
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There are companies for whom stock price in meaningful, and other companies where prices are fueled by teh greater fools theory.

Meta is huge, it's a staple of numerous large funds and practically every American investor out there owns a stake in it. Significant movement in their stock price indicates something is going on.

Truth Social is a meme stock whose price is driven up by people looking to make a quick buck playing hot potato. Very few holders give a damn about the long-term viability of the company. Most are looking to ride the pump-and-dump.

Stock prices do mean things, just not the things people think they do.