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Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida, previously likened the performance of the company on the financial markets to that of “meme stocks”—a publicly traded company’s shares that experience significant price volatility and trading volume due to

In North America, Tesla’s value far exceeds that of the two other biggest manufacturers, General Motors and Ford, which have market caps of $59.57 billion and $40.02 billion respectively. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter told Newsweek that with its current market cap,

Trump transferred 114.75 million shares, or 53% of Trump Media & Technology Group’s outstanding stock, to a revocable trust of which he is the sole beneficiary, according to securities filings released Thursday evening. Shares fell more than 7% Friday morning

IPO data collected by Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter informs this story highlighting that too many directors at American companies aren’t doing their job.  Read more from The Economist. 

For years, the biggest startup founders would dream of an initial public offering. It was the key to raising capital, drumming up attention and rewarding longtime employees and early investors with a big payout. Not any more. These days, many

At President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club Thursday, James Fishback, CEO and co-founder of Azoria Partners, unveiled a new anti-“woke” investment fund, the Azoria 500 Meritocracy ETF, that will mirror the S&P 500 index except in one respect: It will not include

Autonomous-driving company Pony AI Inc.’s newly issued stock fell nearly 8% below its offering price of $13 a share Wednesday as the biggest initial public offering in months for a Chinese company began trading. The Pony AI offering potentially sets

Trump Media & Technology Group’s revenue and share price have sagged as its losses have piled up. The president-elect’s return to the White House could complicate things even more. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights in this story

Donald Trump’s social media company ended the trading day up Monday on reports it’s looking to buy crypto trading firm Bakkt. Shares of Bakkt, backed by NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange, skyrocketed more than 160% and were halted multiple times due to volatility.