By Katie Greifeld, Sarah Ponczek, Paul Jarvis and Bailey Lipschultz
GameStop Corp. soared in premaket trading Thursday as retail investors revived the surge in Reddit-favorite stocks, putting it on pace to reap $7.6 billion in market value over two days.
The video-game retailer rose as much as 83% to $168 in New York. Among other favorites of traders populating Reddit forums, AMC Entertainment Inc. advanced 12% premarket after gaining 59% in the first three days of the week, while Koss Corp. surged 78%. Nokia Oyj, also a favorite of the meme crowd, climbed 7.7% in Europe, and BlackBerry Ltd. added 5.3% in early trading.
The surge was spurred by a final-hour rally on Wednesday that brought GameStop its biggest advance since Jan. 29, the day Robinhood Markets restricted trading in it and 49 other stocks at the height of the frenzy. An equally weighted Bloomberg basket of those rose more than 5%, the most since late January. The activity inflated trading volumes in the meme stocks an