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Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of struggling social media platform Truth Social, is began its long-delayed journey as a public company at Tuesday’s opening bell under the ticker symbol “DJT.”

The stock surged about 56% at the open, to $78, and trading was briefly halted for volatility. Trump Media shares have since stabilized at around $70, marking a 40% increase from Monday’s close.

Wall Street is assigning Trump Media an eye-popping valuation of around $13 billion — a price tag that experts warn is untethered to reality.

The skyrocketing share price comes despite the fact that Trump Media is burning through cash; piling up losses; and its main product, Truth Social, is losing users.

“This is a very unusual situation. The stock is pretty much divorced from fundamentals,” said Jay Ritter, a finance professor at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business, who has been studying initial public offerings (IPOs) for over 40 years.

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[–] stanleytweedle 70 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The logic is it's a megaphone plugged directly into the earholes of a shitload of very dumb, very angry people with plenty of disposable income. They might not give their money directly to Truth Social but Truth Social can give them lots of great ideas for who to give their money to.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

with plenty of disposable income.

I would even wager a lot of those people don't have the disposable income but dispose it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I dunno, I see a lot of 50K+ pickup trucks with Trump stuff all over them.

[–] partial_accumen 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Servicing the debt on a $50k pickup on an 84 month note at 12.35% is different than owning a $50k pickup outright.

[–] acetanilide 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know more than a few not-rich people with 50k+ pickups

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don't think you drive a >50K pickup and don't have some disposable income though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

That's what they spent all their savings on.

[–] stanleytweedle 13 points 9 months ago

True, yeah I guess the money they should be paying in child support or just feeding their kids isn't technically 'disposable', but if Truth Social can get to it before the kids do... I guess they owned the libs...

[–] pete_the_cat 4 points 9 months ago

Oh absolutely. They buy into his bullshit products because they think it will make them money, but in the end they're worse off than when they started.

[–] resetbypeer 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The best and most expensive megaphone. It's so great. You can write all these beautiful letters on it and you know folks, I can see those letters. Millions and millions of letters, in fact we have the best letters in the entire alphabet, it's true. Nobody on the internet has such a beautiful letters as I have. I practically invented them. And you can own some of those letters by buying the best stock on the market. It comes with a special orange colored email when you buy them. Just that email will be worth a gazillion because of contains my letters.

Make the internet GREAT AGAIN, folks !!!

I mean I was looking at it this afternoon market cap of 2.7 billion for a bunch of dumb angry people, who are listening to their obesed, dementing orange wannabe Jesus. It shows as someone else mentioned in this thread, (some) tech companies are just inflated air castles. If Trumps platform 2.7b worth the the real Jesus Must be a multi trillionaire