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SALT LAKE CITY While his classmates practiced their multiplication tables, a fifth grader from San Antonio watched his investment portfolio grow by more than 5,000% almost overnight.
At just 10 years old, Jaydyn Carr is surely one of GameStop s youngest shareholders. His mom, Nina Carr, spent $60 to gift her son 10 shares of the company s stock for Kwanzaa back in December of 2019, according to mySanAntonio.com.
Carr thought the stock would be a great way to highlight the Kwanzaa principle of Ujamaa which focuses on cooperative economics. I know this kid loves video games, and at the time I was teaching him financial literacy, Carr told TODAY.
By Cherranda Smith
Feb 1, 2021
A fifth-grader from Houston, Texas won big in the recent surge in GameStop’s stock value, but he wasn’t among the throng of new stock investors from the Robinhood investment app.
Ten-year-old
Nina Carr.
At the time, she paid $6 per share. Wednesday morning (January 27), GameStop’s stock surged to $372 per share. Jaydyn sold his shares and made just nearly $3,200. That’s more than 53 times the original investment his mom made.
“My phone was going off, because I have GameStop on my watch list,” Nina said in an interview with the
San Antonio Express News. “I was trying to explain to him that this was unusual. I asked him, ‘Do you want to stay or sell?’”
A 10-year-old GameStop investor cashed in. His return? Over 5000%
1 Feb, 2021 06:00 AM
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Ten-year-old Jaydyn Carr (pictured) made more than US$3000 from GameStop shares that he was gifted for Kwanzaa in 2019. Photo / Nina Carr
Ten-year-old Jaydyn Carr (pictured) made more than US$3000 from GameStop shares that he was gifted for Kwanzaa in 2019. Photo / Nina Carr
New York Times
By: Christina Morales As amateur investors banded together this past week to squeeze Wall Street hedge funds by sending GameStop s stock prices to dizzying heights, some novice traders, like 10-year-old Jaydyn Carr of San Antonio, have seen their long-term investments pay off.