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GameStop Corp.GMECOMMENTJul 06, 2017
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It doesn't have much going for it as a business. In contrast, TTWO just delivered a strong quarter based on selling videogames direct to customers online and cutting out the brick-and-mortar middleman which is GameStop. Doesn't matter, because there bulls who want to push this stock higher; they are the so-called meme traders. With more stimulus cheques, though, these bulls will eventually run out of firepower.
Is up 3268% in the past year, 772% YTD and 6% today. And yet the company rewarded their CEO Sherman by ousting the him. True, this move had to do with activist investor Ryan Cohen instead who'll be chairman; he plans to digitize this brick and mortar company, but details? What is he planning? It's vague, though younger investors have faith in him. He suggests he turns their 5,000 stores into Bitcoin banks then set up e-gaming palaces in shopping malls where winners are paid in cryptos. Mind you, a recent report from Goldman Sachs notes that younger retail investors are trading less sharply from August 2020.
The challenge for this company is more secular rather than cyclical. They specialize in trading used video games. With digital downloads and digital formats, there is less and less of that going on, which is one reason the stock has not done well. Their balance sheet in the meantime has gone from rich in cash to just OK. Going forward, the prospects are somewhat uncertain.