retail investors stepped back in to lift a handful of beaten down meme stocks after a volatile start of the session for the group in the wake of bed bath  beyond inc’s quarterly results individual trader favorites like gamestop corp and express inc clawed higher as a basket of socalled meme stocks tracked by bloomberg rebounded from the worst day since june the choppy session came even as bed bath  beyond jumped as much as 23 after its adjusted gross margin in the quarter topped the average analyst estimate