Top Reddit Stocks Last Week: GME, GOOG, and MSFT

May 4, 8:08 am

Reddit attention was led by familiar names last week, with GameStop, Google, and Microsoft topping the mention leaderboard. But the bigger story was what changed: eBay exploded on takeover chatter, Google got a clean earnings-driven lift, and Meta drew a rush of debate after a sharp selloff.

The mention leaders

GameStop stayed in its usual Reddit orbit, but the scale still stood out. Mentions jumped 184% week over week to 7,079, easily the highest total in the group, while the stock rose 6.33%. Google ranked second with 4,531 mentions, up 100%, and Microsoft followed with 3,898, up 71%.

The narratives were very different. GameStop discussion was driven by the eBay bid story. Google got a boost from strong earnings. Microsoft was more of an event stock, with posts centered on earnings, options bets, and its evolving OpenAI relationship.

eBay was the breakout mover

eBay had the biggest attention spike of the week by far. Mentions surged from 68 to 3,361, up 4,843%, while shares climbed 11.38%.

The catalyst was clear from the top posts. Reddit latched onto reports and memes around GameStop pursuing eBay, including posts about a possible offer, commentary on the rumor, and logo mashups treating the deal like it was already happening. One widely shared post cited a report that Ryan Cohen had built roughly a 5% stake in eBay and made an unsolicited $56 billion offer. In other words, this was speculation-led attention, not a fundamentals story.

Google had the strongest fundamental setup

Google combined scale with a real catalyst. Mentions doubled to 4,531 and the stock rose 11.95% on the week, making it one of the strongest performers among the most-discussed names.

The main driver was earnings. Reddit focused on Alphabet beating revenue expectations, with revenue of $109.9 billion versus $107.2 billion expected, while Google Cloud came in at $20.02 billion versus $18.05 billion estimated. That gave bulls a concrete reason to lean in. Other popular posts kept the AI angle alive through DeepMind and broader debate around model competition, but the earnings beat and cloud growth were the core reasons attention moved higher.

Microsoft and Meta showed two sides of Reddit hype

Microsoft stayed near the top of the board, but its price action lagged the chatter. Mentions rose 71% to 3,898 even as the stock slipped 2.4%. The biggest posts were classic Reddit setup posts around earnings and calls, plus discussion of Microsoft and OpenAI rewriting their partnership. The tone was still broadly bullish, but the weekly return did not follow the noise.

Meta was almost the opposite. Mentions jumped 197% to 3,017 as the stock fell 9.35%. The top posts focused on the massive market cap loss, investors buying the dip, and concerns that bigger AI spending spooked the market. That made Meta one of the week’s clearest examples of attention rising because of downside volatility, not upside momentum.

Top Reddit Stocks This Week

Company		Mentions	Sentiment	Price	AI Score
	GameStop GME	7,079 +184%	Bullish	$26.53 +6%	58
	Google GOOG	4,531 +100%	Bullish	$383.22 +12%	66
	Microsoft MSFT	3,898 +71%	Bullish	$414.44 -2%	53
	NVIDIA NVDA	3,402 +39%	Bullish	$199.41 -4%	74
	eBay EBAY	3,361 +4843%	Bullish	$109.09 +11%	59
	Meta META	3,017 +197%	Bullish	$611.90 -9%	50
	Intel INTC	2,765 -21%	Neutral	$99.18 +20%	53
	Amazon AMZN	2,240 +60%	Bullish	$268.85 +2%	58
	Robinhood HOOD	1,989 +93%	Neutral	$73.66 -13%	55
	SanDisk SNDK	1,865 +219%	Neutral	$1,187 +20%	49

The split on Reddit last week was pretty clean. GameStop, Google, and Microsoft were the volume leaders, but eBay was the freshest story and Google had the best hard-data catalyst. Meta proved that falling stocks can attract just as much debate as rising ones, especially when AI spending is at the center of the argument.

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