Trump Media inventory ticker DJT debuts after DWAC merger

The share worth of Donald Trump‘s social media firm jumped by greater than 50% minutes after it started public buying and selling underneath the ticker DJT on Tuesday morning.

Buying and selling within the Trump Media & Technology Group was briefly halted amid the rise resulting from volatility earlier than it resumed round 9:40 a.m. ET. Greater than 6.5 million shares in Trump Media had modified fingers by 9:50 a.m.

The ticker debuted on the Nasdaq inventory market almost three many years after the previous president used it to launch his publicly traded lodge and on line casino firm to great fanfare in 1995.

That inventory was ignominiously delisted from the New York Inventory Change 9 years later.

Trump Media’s merger with the shell firm Digital World Acquisition Corp. was accomplished Monday, permitting it to develop into publicly traded, it added nearly $4 billion in paper income to Donald Trump’s web price.

Trump Media’s market valuation was round $2.5 billion in morning buying and selling Tuesday, regardless of the corporate reporting lower than $3.5 million — that is million, not billion — in income over the primary three quarters of 2023.

On its final day of buying and selling Monday underneath the DWAC ticker, the corporate’s shares soared greater than 35% after a New York appeals courtroom decreased from $454 million to $175 million the quantity of a bond Trump must put up to pause assortment on a enterprise fraud judgment whereas he appeals the case.

The corporate’s closing worth Monday was slightly below $50 per share.

Trump’s notoriety helped make the Trump Media cope with DWAC the highest-profile SPAC — particular function acquisition firm — merger ever.

The corporate’s shareholders might have goals that its Fact Social app platform will considerably develop its market share sufficient for the agency to show a revenue. Maybe its progress may even be turbocharged if Trump is elected president in November.

However for now, Trump Media, similar to the earlier firm that traded underneath the DJT ticker image, is a cash loser.

Trump Media reported $49 million in losses for the primary 9 months of 2023, greater than 14 occasions what it introduced in income.

When Trump Lodges and On line casino Resorts went public $14 per share in 1995 underneath the DJT ticker, it additionally made headlines.

And it made cash for Trump, personally, for years.

Trump obtained greater than $44 million in wage from the corporate over a decade despite the fact that the agency repeatedly failed to show a revenue, in keeping with a 2016 Washington Put up article on the corporate.

After shedding $1 billion, Trump Lodges filed for chapter safety in November 2004, the identical 12 months DJT was delisted from the New York Inventory Change.

“I do not suppose it is a failure, it is a success,” Trump advised NBC Information in a 2004 interview, after the chapter submitting listed $1.8 billion in debt and the inventory was buying and selling at about 50 cents per share.

“On this case, it was simply one thing that labored higher than different options,” he mentioned of the chapter.

“It is actually only a technical factor, however it got here collectively.”

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