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Trump media shares plunge again as former president goes on trial and company files to issue more stock.

Trump media shares plunge again as former president goes on trial and company files to issue more stock.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, via The Hill)

Trump Media shares plunged more than 16% on Monday after the company filed for millions more in additional stock.

Monday’s decline comes as Donald Trump sat in a Manhattan courtroom for the first day of his criminal trial where he is facing 34 charges related to a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump Media, the company that owns Truth Social, has plummeted more than 40% in value since debuting on Nasdaq on March 26 under the ticker symbol “DJT.”

The stock had an opening price of $70.90, which soared to a high of nearly $80 on it’s first day.

But it plummeted after the company revealed in a regularity filing with the SEC that it made just $4.1 million in profit last year and lost more than $50 million.

Despite the plummeting stock value, CNBC reported that the company has filed to issue millions of additional shares of stock.

The filing describes a plan to offer more than 21.4 million shares of common stock, issuable “upon the exercise of warrants,” the filing shows, according to CNBC.

Holders of warrants can buy shares at a predetermined price within a certain time frame. Trump Media’s warrants closed at $13.69 on Friday had were down by more than 8% on Monday, CNBC reported.

The company is also seeking a resale of nearly 150 million shares of stock from “selling securityholders.” Trump holds114.8 million of these stocks and stands to gain 36 million “earnout shares” if the stock stays above $17.50 for enough trading days, the outlet noted.