Welcome to the MEME Stock Tracker podcast. Here's what's happening in the meme stock world right now.Over the last twenty-four hours, the top one hundred meme stocks tracked across Reddit's wallstreetbets and stocks communities have generated over thirty-two hundred mentions and nearly twenty-three thousand upvotes, showing an uptrend from the previous day. This sustained engagement indicates retail investors remain actively interested in speculative opportunities despite broader market volatility.The most significant action continues to center on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have soared more than five hundred percent since Donald Trump's election. These government-sponsored enterprises have attracted massive retail interest thanks to influential figures like Bill Ackman and Bill Pulte promoting a potential privatization narrative. However, recent volatility has hit these stocks hard, with drops exceeding ten percent as leveraged cryptocurrency investors facing margin calls liquidated positions across high-flying equities to raise cash. This interconnection between crypto markets and equity meme stocks has created unexpected pressure that even prominent backers underestimated.Beyond Meat deserves attention as a new meme stock candidate experiencing dramatic swings. The company surged more than fourteen hundred percent in just four trading days in late October before settling back down significantly. The spike followed a strategic debt swap announcement and a partnership deal with Walmart, which will place its products in over two thousand stores. Despite this retail momentum, Beyond Meat remains unprofitable since its twenty nineteen initial public offering, making it a classic meme stock driven purely by momentum rather than fundamentals.Among traditional meme stock favorites, GameStop and AMC Entertainment continue drawing retail attention, though their trajectories differ markedly. GameStop maintains higher valuations than pre-pandemic levels, while AMC has fallen over ninety-nine percent from its twenty twenty-one peaks and is down another thirty-five percent this year alone, representing one of the most devastating meme stock outcomes.Other stocks capturing retail interest include Krispy Kreme, GoPro, Kohl's, and Carvana, which swung from extreme distress to profitability in twenty twenty-four. Semiconductor names like Nvidia and Super Micro Computer also generate significant social media discussion, blending meme status with legitimate artificial intelligence and cloud computing exposure.The meme stock landscape has evolved considerably since the pandemic-era frenzy. Financial institutions now track these dynamics through dedicated indexes and exchange-traded funds like the Roundhill Meme Stock ETF, which launched in October but is already down over twenty-three percent from its peak despite early gains. Bloomberg and UBS have also developed meme stock indexes, professionalizing what began as grassroots retail trader coordination.What remains constant is the volatility. Meme stocks trade untethered from traditional financial fundamentals, driven instead by social media momentum, celebrity trader endorsements, and the collective speculative fervor of retail communities. The risks remain substantial, yet retail investor appetite for these high-risk, high-reward opportunities shows no signs of disappearing.Thank you for listening to the MEME Stock Tracker podcast. Please subscribe for daily updates on trending stocks and market movements.This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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