Shares of the Grapevine-based GameStop plunged Thursday morning, halted several times, but remained well above the year's opening price,
The shares closed Wednesday at $346.37 on the New York Stock Exchange, opened Thursday at $265, plunged as low as $126.01, but rose again to $261.86 by midday.
The stock, which traded at around $17 on Jan. 4, have been driven by the convergence of individual investors touting it on a Reddit message board and short sellers who have having to move in and buy the stock to cover their bad bets.
The chaos forced brokerages to begin blocking trades, and it even ended up Wednesday in President Biden's White House Briefing Room.