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Opinions Jim Cramer - Mad Money
GameStop Corp.GMECOMMENTMar 19, 2021
Jim Cramer - Mad MoneyStock price when the opinion was issued
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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 co-founder of CHWY-N bought 13% and joined the board to transform GME into a digital business. But how will he transform 5,000 shops into a digital business? They report Tuesday; he presumes we will see this plan then. He can't see this stock rising beyond current levels, though a good plan that incorporates e-sports and cryptos could attract more buyers. But if these bulls don't get what they want, GME can turn ugly fast.