This photo illustration shows an image of former President Donald Trump reflected in a phone screen that is displaying the Truth Social app, in Washington, DC, on February 21, 2022.
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A sell-off of Trump Media is poised to pick up speed Thursday, with shares of former President Donald Trump’s company down more than 10% in premarket trading.
The company behind the conservative social media app Truth Social, which trades on the Nasdaq as DJT, was hovering around $27.50 per share ahead of the market’s open.
That would be more than 36% lower than it stood at the start of June, when Trump Media stock cost just over $49 a share.
The slide represents a massive on-paper loss for Trump, the majority owner of Trump Media stock.
Trump’s 114,750,000 shares in the company, worth more than $5.6 billion at the beginning of the month, would be worth around $3.2 billion based on Thursday’s moves before the bell.
Trump Media has been in a slump since May 30, when a New York jury convicted the former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
That downward trend accelerated Tuesday, dovetailing with a company deadline related to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s expected approval of its registration statement.The stock fell nearly 10% in Tuesday’s session, on more than double the average trading volume.
After the bell, Trump Media revealed that the SEC had declared its registration statement effective — an announcement followed by the stock plunging more than 17% in post-market trading.
The development authorizes early investors in Trump Media to exercise warrants they hold in the company, and it allows stockholders to publicly resell securities covered by the registration statement.
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