A handful of European stocks has become a battlefield for retailers who take sellers on hedge cords, in a campaign with “Meme Stock” crazy, which acquired Wall Street during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The companies that include the Hensoldt and Renk Group in Germany and French satellites have increased in Eutelsat in recent weeks, far exceeding a broader gathering led by the defense sector as investors expect military spending an increase throughout Europe.

Analysts say that young merchants-sometimes they move their efforts on social media forums such as Reddit-they have been shipping the turbine gains by intentionally purchasing the shares that were shortened by Hedge boxes Including Marshall SPA and Millennium.

“There is a tectonic shift in Europe,” said Roland Calien, a strategic expert of stocks in Société générale.

Next, Reddit traders targeted severe brief shares-especially the Gamestop-by sending missile stock prices and forcing the hedge box on Melvin Capital after suffering huge losses.

The movements of the last stock prices in Europe were less extremist, and the shares did not reach the same Gamestop. Calwyan said that the “short strikes” encouraged by the retail buyer participated in the “same mechanics” as the M -Stock Epic.

Hedge boxes such as Millennium, QBE Research & Technologies and Marshal Wace have been affected by their negative bets in recent weeks on the RNK group, according to the PROFIT data provider. The Renic share price has increased by approximately 50 percent in the past three weeks.

The shares have risen in the supplier of the French aircraft parts, Latcueri, another famous hedge box, by 80 percent since late February.

In contrast, the wider Stoxx Aerospace & Defeense increased about 16 percent during the same period.

The increase of 300 percent in Eutelsat on the open exposed costs about $ 187 million in mark losses to the market in the three weeks until March 14, while Hensoldt Short Pelles was subjected to $ 110 million from its losses with its shares increased by 40 percent in the same period, according to the S3 Partners.

“An enemy” in Darsana, a US-based hedge fund, which holds short positions in Eutelsat and its competitor in Luxembourg.

Another said: “If no one sells, the sellers will have to buy more buyers … Keep your pregnancy and you will not lose.”

Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, operate a large shorts in Eutelsat, before reducing it under the disclosure threshold of 0.5 percent in recent weeks. “Blackrock is now completely out,” one of the users told the forum’s joy last week.

Investors have also transferred to “R/Aktien” and “R/Wallstreeetbetsger” on Reddit- German versions of the Reddit’s R/Wallstreeetbets Forum-they ask if the time “time” the small and medium stocks listed in Frankfurt.

One user said: “On this wonderful day, I went for a long time. I hope the lights will continue in the heads of fatty cats and see what will happen here soon.”

Marshall Weiss, Cope, Darana, Millennium and Black Rock refused to comment.

Retausals platform reports on tremendous picking in the activity. Flatexdegiro, a German retail broker, said it has dealt 70 times from many deals in Eutelsat shares over the past month compared to the previous month, while Trades in Rink Group rose more than four times.

Eturo, a retail, who focuses on the United Kingdom, said that merchants had opened 18 times the number of positions in Hensoldt during the past month as they were in the previous month.

The sudden explosion comes in interest in small European stocks at a time when President Donald Trump’s announcements have irregular tariff to American stock markets in recent weeks, which has slowed economic growth in the world’s largest economy.

European stocks Among the main beneficiaries in the rotation of the investor produced from American stocks, while strengthening the region’s prospects through Germany’s plans to unleash military spending and reforming its infrastructure.

Some merchants have come to the Trump administration and sought to photograph their activities as an effort to strengthen the campaign of rearmament Europe after the president insisted that the continent no longer depend on the United States for defense.

“I don’t care for profit, I just want to collect some of my money for help, and to stay away from American assets and asset managers,” wrote one of the posters at the Reddit’s R/Eupersonalfinance Forum.

In contrast to the United States, which has a limited disclosure of short bets, hedge funds and other investors must reveal the abbreviation time of more than 0.5 percent of the company’s shares in the European Union and the United Kingdom, making it easier for retailers targeting the fund’s sites.

Last year, Eutelsat had approximately 100 percent of its shares on loan – an agent to get a short benefit – before this decreased to 80 percent in the past two weeks as some money bought its locations, according to the S& P Global data.

It seems that the company’s recent stock prices have pushed hedge funds to quickly get out of other negative bets when the stocks began to gather, according to Aleksander Peterc, the head of small and medium infidels in Bernstein.

“There were very short sites in small stocks,” he said. “The alarm bells have rang when Eutelsat was pressed, so [hedge funds] They killed their short positions in other companies as well, very quickly. ”

Additional reports by Costas Mourselas and Ray Douglas