Shares of Avis Budget Group Inc surged on Tuesday as retail investors rushed to get a piece of the heavily-shorted US car rental company, giving a possible $5bn boost to activist hedge fund SRS Investment Management, which has been the company’s biggest investor for about 10 years.
Avis gained after quarterly results beat Wall Street estimates. Avis executives also said the company has been in talks with manufacturers about its plans to add more electric vehicles to its fleet.
The stock closed up 108 percent at $357.17 following multiple trading halts for volatility, its biggest daily percentage jump according to Refinitiv data going back to the 1980s. Shares jumped as high as $545.11 earlier in the session. That sent the Dow Jones Transportation Average surging to an all-time high.
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