Robinhood Markets. Following the footsteps of Roaring Kitty
Keith Gill, the YouTube streamer known as Roaring Kitty, made tens of millions of dollars in a day from the GameStop meme stock.
YouTube blogger Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty, earned a paper profit of $79 million in one trading day from the growth of shares of the GameStop video game store chain, recently wrote CNBC. During trading on Monday, June 3, GameStop shares rose by 21% and closed at $28 per share.
On Monday, June 3, Keith Gill took to Reddit to share what appears to be a screenshot of his investment portfolio. The blogger revealed that he still holds 5 million shares of the video game store chain GameStop and 120 thousand call options on the stock with a strike price of $20 and an expiration date of June 21. Gill's bet on GameStop netted him an intraday profit of $33.6 million from stock gains and $54.3 million from options. As a result, these positions increased in value by $79 million.
A day earlier, Keith Gill posted on the social network Reddit a screenshot of the portfolio, which shows 5 million shares purchased at $21.27 per share and 120 thousand call options purchased at approximately $5.68.
A call option gives the buyer the right to purchase an asset at a fixed price on or before a predetermined date, and creates an obligation for the seller to sell it when requested. By purchasing such an option, a trader or investor takes a long position - long. It is opened in the hope of making money on the rise in the price of an asset, such as a stock.
If GameStop's stock price rises above $20 on June 21, Gill will be able to exercise the options at $20 per share. As a result, he will receive another 12 million shares of GameStop. In total, he will own 17 million shares, making him GameStop's fourth-largest shareholder behind Vanguard, BlackRock and RC Ventures, according to FactSet. At Monday's closing price of $28 per share, his stake is valued at $476 million.
Keith Gill rose to prominence in 2021 after posting a series of videos that investors took as a signal to buy GameStop stock. As a result, in January 2021, the price of securities of the GameStop video game store chain soared from $20 to $483 in two weeks, and the shares themselves began to be called meme.
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