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The California-based company’s stock was up 12% in premarket trade, after rising more than 20% earlier in the day.
Wood’s ARK Next Generation Internet exchange-traded fund (ETF) said it had bought more than 500,000 shares of Roblox, weighting it at 0.47% of the fund.
Wood, a long-time Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) bull, has a massive online following and is a popular topic of discussion on the Reddit forums that are seen as having driven this year’s growth in influence for a social-media savvy herd of small-time traders.
ARK Invest on Wednesday also sold a little over 67,000 Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) shares from the ARKW ETF, amounting to about 0.3% of the ETF’s assets.
Message volumes on Roblox on trading-focused social media site Stocktwits soared more than nine-fold on Thursday, with more than 80% of users’ messages reflecting positive sentiment toward the scrip, data showed.
Usage and spending on Roblox has surged as kids stuck at home in the COVID-19 pandemic spent more time on the platform, fuelling an 85% year-on-year jump in daily active users in 2020 and a surge in monthly in-app sales.
An average 37.1 million people globally log on to Roblox daily to connect with friends and play popular games like “Jailbreak” and “Speed Run 4”.
