- The price of Trump Media shares fell below $30 in early trading, a more than $40-per-share plunge since the company began public trading on March 26.
- The shares of Trump Media, which owns the Truth Social app, have dropped by more than 47% month-to-date.
- Former President Donald Trump is the biggest shareholder in the company, owning nearly 60% of its stock.
- Trump on Monday is set to start jury selection for his criminal trial in Manhattan Supreme Court on charges of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump Media shares drop below $30, company sheds more than half of market cap since trading debut
The price of Trump Media shares fell below $30 in early trading Friday morning, which is more than $40 lower than what its shares first sold for when the social media company began public trading on March 26.
DJT shares fell by more than 8% within the first hour of trading Friday.
The latest price fall for the ticker continued a slide that included a 5.4% drop on Thursday, and a more than 8.5% decline on Wednesday.
The shares of Trump Media, which owns the Truth Social app, have dropped by more than 47% month-to-date, wiping out billions of dollars in the company’s market capitalization.
Former President Donald Trump is the biggest shareholder in the company, owning nearly 60% of its stock. Trump on Monday is set to start jury selection for his criminal trial in Manhattan Supreme Court on charges of falsifying business records related to a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump Media on March 26 opened its first day of trading with a price of $70.90 per share, hitting a high of nearly $80 later that same day. During trading that day, the company’s market capitalization topped $9.5 billion.
By 10:45 a.m. ET on Friday, Trump Media’s market cap was $4.3 billion, after shares pared some of the early price drop.
The company a day earlier had merged with a publicly traded shell company, Digital World Acquisition Corp., which was itself created to merge with a private firm to take it public.
Trump Media last year had revenue of just $4.1 million, and reported a net loss of $58 million.
That performance and the relatively high price of the company’s stock have drawn keen interest from short sellers, who make trades that are effectively bet that a company’s share price will drop.
As of this week, the so-called short interest in DJT was $208.7 million, with 5.44 million shares shorted, according to Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3 Partners.
DJT has 136.7 million outstanding shares.
A week ago, traders who wanted short Trump Media shares had to pay up to 900% in annual financing costs, meaning they would need a then-$30-per share drop within a month to break even on their trade, Dusaniwsky said.
Since then, however, financing costs for short trades in Trump Media had sharply fallen, to 200%.
Trump Media was launched after the social media giant X, then-known as Twitter, banned Trump from that app on the heels of the Jan. 6, 2021, invasion of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters.
Trump, who is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, frequently posts on Truth Social. He has used the app to condemn the four pending criminal cases he faces, along with civil lawsuits that have resulted in judgments against him topping $500 million.
Trump this week hosted a party at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, to celebrate Trump Media.
“I think that Truth has become so important. It’s strong, it’s dedicated,” Trump told attendees, according to a report on the RSBN news site. said.
“Remember we have no debt, and we have over $200 million dollars in cash, which is very liquid,” Trump said of the company, whose CEO is former Republican congressman Devin Nunes.
– Additional reporting by CNBC’s Nick Wells
This is developing news. Check back for updates.
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