Roaring Kitty is back, and it looks like he has a lot of GameStop stock.
In the past month, GameStop Corp. shares GME, +2.34% have gone through the roof since famous trader Keith Gill, also known as Roaring Kitty on X and YouTube, came back to social media. Gill was an important part of GameStop’s 2021 meme-stock craze.
Trade in GameStop shares before the market opened nearly doubled to $45.24.
An AMC Entertainment AMC, +2.36% stock that is also a meme went up 30%.
Gill’s Reddit handle, DeepF—ingValue, posted a screenshot of what looked like his holdings on Sunday. They had 5 million GameStop shares worth $115.7 million that were bought for $21.27 each, as well as 120,000 call options with a $20 strike price that will expire on June 21.
Gill also shared a picture of a green Uno “reverse” card on X, which used to be Twitter, on Sunday.
This past week, GameStop shares got another boost when the video game store said it had completed a previously announced sale of 45 million shares for about $933.4 million.
