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GameStop Corp.GMECOMMENTDec 06, 2017Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 18, 2026. Market Open.
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 world’s largest video game retailer. They’ve done a lot of things well. To combat online gaming, they have a great trade program. If someone is tired of a game, they can take the video to this company, and get credit for the new hot game they want, and that ability is not available online. The challenge is that they are going through a transition of being known as a video game retailer to being a sort of entertainment media outlet, and are doing that in a variety of ways, including getting into selling mobile phones. Expects this will trade at a discount because the market is worried about what it will look like 5 years from now. The balance sheet looks pretty good and pays a juicy dividend of 8%.