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Re:The Battle of GameStop by dmurray on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @05:39AM (#25914327)
At least in this case, GameStop has filed to raise up to $100,000,000 through an ATM offering (selling shares to the public) [0]. So yes, the recent activity does help the company, in so far as GME is a company that can be helped by getting its hands on more cash.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326380/000119312520...

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Re:The Battle of GameStop by viraptor on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @06:20AM (#25914562)
Did that go through? Releasing new overpriced shares while the price is being obviously raising unrelated to the company performance sounds super dodgy.
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Re:The Battle of GameStop by dmurray on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:21AM (#25915461)
They planned to sell them before the current rally (the document is dated December 8). They haven't released details of how many they sold, or on what dates.

It's not clear what view the SEC would take if they fast tracked an ATM offering now. Hertz were told to knock it off, but they were literally trading in bankruptcy. There's a pretty good argument to be made that issuing more shares is if anything the responsible thing to do to in response to increased demand, since it would help to correct the anomalous price rally.

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Re:The Battle of GameStop by thrwyoilarticle on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:00AM (#25915301)
Worked fine for Tesla and Apple.
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