There's always Trump Media & Technology Group Corp, ticker DJT.

$6.5 billion market cap. Annual revenue $4 million (that's an "m").

It's a social media company that doesn't reveal any usage numbers or other KPIs. The company's auditor was just revealed by the SEC to be a complete scam with 100% fraudulent audits.

So why would anyone buy this? Well, it's 65% owned by a presidential candidate in the current election. The same candidate is threatened by massive legal fees.

So if you're Saudi Arabia, you can easily afford to spend a billion dollars on technically worthless DJT stock, and it goes straight to the pockets of the politician who has a very good chance of winning the 2024 presidential election. And there's nothing illegal about this, apparently. (For prior art, see that time when Qatar paid $1B for a distressed New York property owned by this same president's son-in-law.)

And actively pushing users to retain control over brokers of their shares.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-medias-fight-turns-t...

And they tout the free market. Bulls and Bears for thee, but not for me.

To ensure the moneyed classes of Britain are well looked after, they have both a king who is a billionaire and a prime minister whose net worth is a more modest $500 million.

[1]: https://companiesmarketcap.com/trump-media-technology-group/...

Trump owns billions of $DJT stock. His lockup period ends well before the election.

The share price can be manipulated at will given enough money, the Saudis have plenty of that, and there’s already a good track record of them using it this way; a $2B investment in Trump’s son-in-law “despite objections from the fund’s advisers about the merits of the deal”, as an example. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-in...

Hedge funds make their money with trades that are not obvious to everyone, because if they were, they’d be too crowded. “Short DJT” is definitely in that category.

They asked their shareholders to disable short loans (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-18/trump-med...).

Before that, everyone was already shorting to the point of 500% fees. https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20240406227/why...

"Based on that data, to short 100 shares of Trump Media & Technology Group at the current price, it would cost between $24,895 and $29,874 a year. That means the stock would have to fall about 1.4% a day just to cover the cost of shorting it. And if the short were held for a year, the bet would still lose about $20,000 to $25,000, even if the stock price fell to $1."

Why Did the Saudi Regime and Other Gulf Tyrannies Donate Millions to the Clinton Foundation? http://theintercept.com/2016/08/25/why-did-the-saudi-regime-...

Clinton's foundation got millions from Saudis, Gates: https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/18/clinton.donations/

What are you going to do now? Claim that going from $66 to $22 isn't a crash?

Now you're left with 35% for retail and institutional investors.

$66 to $22 is just under a 35% drop. Smells like a crash to me.

$22 is half the average for the months preceding the drop, and 1/3 the peak, with a sustained drop for more than two weeks straight. That’d be called a crash by pretty much anyone.

Traditional meme stocks (GameStop, Bed Bath and Beyond, AMC, arguably Tesla) have a large, poorly-run company attached, which is really extraneous to the stock's core purpose, that of ensnaring day-traders.

I mean, it's _possible_ the Trump one is driven by the bribery angle, but common things being common it may just be a very compelling meme stock, sharing as it does the name of a meme president.

But since the Twitter-Cybertruck era it seems things are cracking in too many places.

Overvalued? Certainly. "World's most overvalued stock"? Hardly.