3073f328
2021-12-17
Hi
A Reddit IPO? Users of WallStreetBets Have Their Doubts.
免责声明：上述内容仅代表发帖人个人观点，不构成本平台的任何投资建议。
分享至
微信
复制链接
精彩评论
我们需要你的真知灼见来填补这片空白
打开APP，发表看法
APP内打开
发表看法
1
{"i18n":{"language":"zh_CN"},"detailType":1,"isChannel":false,"data":{"magic":2,"id":690442582,"tweetId":"690442582","gmtCreate":1639704872224,"gmtModify":1639704872280,"author":{"id":3582863829198969,"idStr":"3582863829198969","authorId":3582863829198969,"authorIdStr":"3582863829198969","name":"3073f328","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"userType":1,"introduction":"","boolIsFan":false,"boolIsHead":false,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[],"fanSize":3,"starInvestorFlag":false},"themes":[],"images":[],"coverImages":[],"extraTitle":"","html":"<html><head></head><body><p>Hi</p></body></html>","htmlText":"<html><head></head><body><p>Hi</p></body></html>","text":"Hi","highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/690442582","repostId":1127942453,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1127942453","pubTimestamp":1639704479,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1127942453?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-17 09:27","market":"us","language":"en","title":"A Reddit IPO? Users of WallStreetBets Have Their Doubts.","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1127942453","media":"Barrons","summary":"Members of the Reddit investing community that won a name as a formidable market force last winter a","content":"<p>Members of the Reddit investing community that won a name as a formidable market force last winter are bracing for the social-media company itself to become a stock. They aren’t sure they like the idea.</p>\n<p>Reddit said Wednesday it confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering that could happen after the Securities and Exchange Commission completes a review process, depending on market and other conditions. On Reddit’s own site, which was seen as so critical to January’s surge in highly shorted stocks like GameStop (ticker: GME) that some institutional investors began to use third-party data firms to track sentiment there, the user response was mixed.</p>\n<p>Many of the top comments on the WallStreetBets forum—the hub for retail investors who made aggressive options bets on companies such as Hertz (ticker: HTZ),Tesla (TSLA), and GameStop—joked that Reddit, once public, could look for new ways to make money from users, potentially harming users’ experience.</p>\n<p>The company declined to comment beyond its IPO filing. Reddit had more than 50 million active users as of January, but 2021’s meme-stock explosion could have spurred further growth.</p>\n<p>“You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a public company that will monetize the sh—t out of us,” one user wrote on the forum, which is famous for its crude language, memes, and inside jokes. Others recalled sites like Myspace and digg, successful social-media platforms in their time, which suffered as attempts to cash in misfired.</p>\n<p>IPOs of other high-profile social-media companies have been mixed, at least at first.Facebook stock, now called Meta Platforms (ticker: FB), dropped 31% in its first year, but the stock is up some 795% from the offering price. Snapchat parent Snap (SNAP) rose 5.9% in its first year, and is up 166% from its IPO.Twitter stock (TWTR) jumped 55% in year one but is only up 67% from its 2013 offering.Pinterest (PINS), which went public in 2019, fell 8.2% in its first year but is up about 88% from its offering price.</p>\n<p>Reddit isn’t the first company that was wrapped up in January’s events to consider a public offering.Robinhood Markets (HOOD), which helped make possible the meme-stock frenzy with its commission-free trading app, went public this past summer. The company was widely criticized by Reddit users when it joined other online brokers in limiting trading of certain securities like GameStop stock, citing clearinghouse collateral requirements amid the volatility.</p>\n<p>Reddit posters joked about shorting the stock around its IPO. That would have been a savvy move: Robinhood shares have fallen 52% from their $38 IPO price.</p>\n<p>In another WallStreetBets thread discussing whether users planned to buy Reddit stock, the top comment reads: “Have you seen the kinds of things their users say?” The platform has at times removed entire communities, including those dedicated to involuntary pornography and harassment.</p>\n<p>Others suggested shorting the stock, or betting on a decline via options. On SuperStonk, a community focused both on GameStop stock and snuffing out conflicts of interest and shadiness in markets, users, who call themselves “apes,” speculated that bad actors could buy enough shares to influence how comments on the site are moderated.</p>\n<p>“Reddit is getting ready for an IPO,” one user wrote. “This is bad news for us Apes. If institutions get voting control, they can shut down certain subreddits.”</p>","source":"lsy1601382232898","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>A Reddit IPO? Users of WallStreetBets Have Their Doubts.</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nA Reddit IPO? Users of WallStreetBets Have Their Doubts.\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-17 09:27 GMT+8 <a href=https://www.barrons.com/articles/reddit-ipo-what-wallstreetbets-users-think-51639690166?mod=hp_LATEST><strong>Barrons</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Members of the Reddit investing community that won a name as a formidable market force last winter are bracing for the social-media company itself to become a stock. They aren’t sure they like the ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.barrons.com/articles/reddit-ipo-what-wallstreetbets-users-think-51639690166?mod=hp_LATEST\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.barrons.com/articles/reddit-ipo-what-wallstreetbets-users-think-51639690166?mod=hp_LATEST","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1127942453","content_text":"Members of the Reddit investing community that won a name as a formidable market force last winter are bracing for the social-media company itself to become a stock. They aren’t sure they like the idea.\nReddit said Wednesday it confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering that could happen after the Securities and Exchange Commission completes a review process, depending on market and other conditions. On Reddit’s own site, which was seen as so critical to January’s surge in highly shorted stocks like GameStop (ticker: GME) that some institutional investors began to use third-party data firms to track sentiment there, the user response was mixed.\nMany of the top comments on the WallStreetBets forum—the hub for retail investors who made aggressive options bets on companies such as Hertz (ticker: HTZ),Tesla (TSLA), and GameStop—joked that Reddit, once public, could look for new ways to make money from users, potentially harming users’ experience.\nThe company declined to comment beyond its IPO filing. Reddit had more than 50 million active users as of January, but 2021’s meme-stock explosion could have spurred further growth.\n“You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a public company that will monetize the sh—t out of us,” one user wrote on the forum, which is famous for its crude language, memes, and inside jokes. Others recalled sites like Myspace and digg, successful social-media platforms in their time, which suffered as attempts to cash in misfired.\nIPOs of other high-profile social-media companies have been mixed, at least at first.Facebook stock, now called Meta Platforms (ticker: FB), dropped 31% in its first year, but the stock is up some 795% from the offering price. Snapchat parent Snap (SNAP) rose 5.9% in its first year, and is up 166% from its IPO.Twitter stock (TWTR) jumped 55% in year one but is only up 67% from its 2013 offering.Pinterest (PINS), which went public in 2019, fell 8.2% in its first year but is up about 88% from its offering price.\nReddit isn’t the first company that was wrapped up in January’s events to consider a public offering.Robinhood Markets (HOOD), which helped make possible the meme-stock frenzy with its commission-free trading app, went public this past summer. The company was widely criticized by Reddit users when it joined other online brokers in limiting trading of certain securities like GameStop stock, citing clearinghouse collateral requirements amid the volatility.\nReddit posters joked about shorting the stock around its IPO. That would have been a savvy move: Robinhood shares have fallen 52% from their $38 IPO price.\nIn another WallStreetBets thread discussing whether users planned to buy Reddit stock, the top comment reads: “Have you seen the kinds of things their users say?” The platform has at times removed entire communities, including those dedicated to involuntary pornography and harassment.\nOthers suggested shorting the stock, or betting on a decline via options. On SuperStonk, a community focused both on GameStop stock and snuffing out conflicts of interest and shadiness in markets, users, who call themselves “apes,” speculated that bad actors could buy enough shares to influence how comments on the site are moderated.\n“Reddit is getting ready for an IPO,” one user wrote. “This is bad news for us Apes. If institutions get voting control, they can shut down certain subreddits.”","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":599,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"CN","currentLanguage":"CN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":2,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ZH_CN"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"isTiger":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"url":"/m/post/690442582"}
精彩评论