Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock is tumbling again after the company announced a massive new influx of shares. The struggling company is rapidly losing money, and a new stock offering could help it stay afloat.

But there’s a downside to going back to the market with new shares: A new public stock offering of 21.5 million shares announced Monday would add more than 15% more stock to the publicly available shares of the Truth Social owner. That would substantially devalue existing shareholders’ stakes — including that of former President Donald Trump.

Shares of TMTG (DJT) fell more than 15% Monday. The stock had rocketed higher in recent months in anticipation of merging a blank-check acquisition company with Trump’s media business. But it has lost more than 60% of its value from its peak on March 26, the day after the merger was completed and it started trading publicly as TMTG.

  • @TropicalDingdong
    link
    499 months ago

    No. Usually if you are running for president, you put your investments into a blind trust.

    what with his faith in humanity and all.

    The 70’s are over. Carter putting the farm in a blind trust was rewarded with Republicans bribing Iranian terrorists to keep the hostages longer. Disco is dead.

    • SeaJ
      link
      fedilink
      239 months ago

      The 70s, the 80s, the 90s, and the 2000s. Presidents aside from Trump have always put their investments in a blind trust.

      • @TropicalDingdong
        link
        -269 months ago

        Like whats your point? Are you saying Trump would or would not put his stake in Truth social in a blind trust?

        • SeaJ
          link
          fedilink
          269 months ago

          I’m correcting you when you implied that this a practice of decades ago. It is not. It has been the standard. Trump is the exception. I don’t foresee that changing. So Trump failing to do so is even worse than if it was some outdated practice.

          • @TropicalDingdong
            link
            -99 months ago

            Oh cool. So he’ll be putting his shares in a blind trust then?

            • @marx2k
              link
              29 months ago

              Even the blind trust knows that’s a terrible investment.

              In all seriousness, what’s the over under whether the company will be delisted from nasdaq this month?

              • @TropicalDingdong
                link
                -19 months ago

                not gonna happen. it’s taken some hits but there is a good enough chance that Trump will be the next president that it’s not going anywhere.

                • @marx2k
                  link
                  28 months ago

                  Reality really isn’t agreeing with you here bud ;)