How to Use meme stock in a Sentence

meme stock

noun
  • Oil is trading like a meme stock.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • When will this one become a meme stock?
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 June 2026
  • But then there seems to be a new meme stock every other day now.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 10 July 2024
  • With some stocks, such as meme stocks, that may all happen very quickly.
    — Sarah Whitmire, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • With some stocks, such as meme stocks, that may all happen very quickly.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Gold in recent weeks had been trading more like a meme stock than a safe haven.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Enough people snatched up shares of meme stocks that even major hedge funds took a hit.
    — Nick Kasmik, The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2024
  • This time, their meme stock of choice is Beyond Meat.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But in a world of meme stocks and meme coins, conviction trumps logic.
    — Matt Craig, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2025
  • As a result, meme stocks tend to have sharp rises followed by slow declines.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Both stocks trade like GameStop did a few years ago during the meme stock frenzy.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Day traders have been trying to recreate the 2021 meme stock craze.
    — Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But its stock’s resurgence comes in the midst of a larger spike of activity in meme stocks.
    — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 13 May 2024
  • But with the help from meme stock investors, the company in March turned its first profit in two years.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 7 June 2024
  • Gold in recent weeks has traded more like a meme stock than a safe haven, with enormous volatility and swings in prices.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The flurry around meme stocks isn’t the only echo of 2021 in the market right now.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 July 2025
  • Beyond Meat — The meme stock moved 9% lower after more than tripling last week.
    — Scott Schnipper, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond Meat has failed as a meme stock after a roughly 600% move over three days.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike the meme stocks, other favorite asset classes for day traders have performed well this year.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 15 May 2024
  • However, anyone who has suffered from the meme stock craze knows that the wisdom of crowds can be anything but wise.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 16 July 2025
  • Last week, the entire country of China somehow became a meme stock.
    — Felix Salmon, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
  • People have compared it to a meme stock, but even meme stocks had this run that lasted months backed by the people or whatever.
    — Andy Mills, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
  • To be sure, the new iteration of the fund reflects the new generation of meme stocks.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Some traders blamed the steep selling on technical factors and a loss of momentum for what has become a meme stock.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Gold, traditional considered a haven, had been acting like a meme stock in recent weeks with volatile swings.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Also scheduled to report is the OG of meme stocks, GameStop.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And in 2021, the market was awash in SPACs and meme stocks.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Five years ago this week, retail investors launched a meme stock craze that would go on to become a key event in modern market history.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Bottom Line American Eagle is not just a meme stock.
    — John Buckingham, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Crypto, meme stocks, collectibles, real estate — all of it was going up, and there was more cash going around than tech founders knew what to do with.
    — Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023

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