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GameStop Chairman Ryan Cohen and CEO Matt Furlong promised to turn the gaming retailer into one of operational excellence and amazing store experiences while cashing in on new opportunities like crypto and NFTs. More than a year into their collective and rather secretive leadership, the entire experiment is beginning to look like an utter failure — underscoring longtime Wall Street concerns about the company’s business model such as too many costly physical stores in dying malls and shifts… Source link

GameStop (GME): The retailer missed on both the top and bottom lines as sales declined amid a gaming slowdown. Third-quarter net sales of $1.19 billion were down 8.5% from a year ago, driven by a 19% drop in software sales. GameStop reported losses of $94.7 million in the third quarter, its seventh quarterly loss in a row. Inventory was $1.13 billion, compared with $1.14 billion a year ago. Shares rose as much as 4% in extended trading on Wednesday. Rent the Runway (RENT): The company raised… Source link

Meme stocks are having a moment. Again. Shares of Bed, Bath & Beyond (BBBY), GameStop (GME), and AMC (AMC) were all surging on no news as of Monday morning, aside from renewed attention on these names from the traders on Reddit’s Wallstreetbets message board investors came to know in early 2021. According to data from Ape Wisdom, a site that tracks ticker mentions on Wallstreetbets threads, mentions of Bed, Bath & Beyond, GameStop, and AMC have surged in the last 24 hours and are the three… Source link

Text size GameStop’s stock split will take effect this month. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images … Source link

Investing legend Bill Gross has been dabbling in the meme stock trade, notably its two highest profile names GameStop (GME) and AMC (AMC). “I simply think that the AMC and GameStop are lottery tickets,” said the Pimco co-founder in an interview with Yahoo Finance Presents. Gross — who just penned his own memoir called “I’m Still Standing: Bond King Bill Gross and the Pimco Express” — has been betting against GameStop and AMC using options. Explained Gross, “If you can sell options that are… Source link

GameStop (GME) shares fell 7% Thursday after the video game retailer reported lackluster fiscal fourth quarter earnings results. The company reported an adjusted operating loss of $160.7 million, compared to a profit of $28.9 million a year ago. The quarter was supposed to be a strong one since it includes the busy holiday shopping season when GameStop has historically made money. But instead the earnings results shed light on aggressive spending for strategic initiatives, such as plans for… Source link

GameStop’s ugly fourth quarter and light-on-the-details earnings call are two of the latest examples why shares of video game retailer turned NFT marketplace probably doesn’t deserve to trade at the levels they do, argues one veteran strategist. “This is not a normal investing situation. There is nothing normal about this. So the stock is going to do what it’s going to do. My gut — based on my history of watching stocks like this — is they usually resolve themselves to where they should… Source link

Activist investor Jonathan Duskin at Macellum Capital Management fought a failed management team at Bed Bath & Beyond and won big in 2019. Duskin — whose successful campaign led to a board overhaul and ultimately the addition of current Bed Bath & Beyond CEO Mark Tritton — tells Yahoo Finance Live what GameStop Chairman Ryan Cohen is doing with the home goods retailer makes sense. “Ryan has a great following and is very well respected,” Duskin says. “I think we’ve articulated there is a… Source link

Beyond disappointing. That’s the overarching theme behind a scathing new note from GameStop Chairman Ryan Cohen to the board of Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY). The Chewy billionaire turned wanna-be-savior of once proud retail organizations has disclosed a 9.8% stake in Bed Bath & Beyond. Cohen says Bed Bath & Beyond’s execution under CEO Mark Tritton has bordered on terrible, compensation is not realistic and the business should be split up (Buy Buy Baby business sold off) and then sold in entirety… Source link

GameStop Chairman Ryan Cohen — aka leader of the meme stock army (apologies to AMC CEO Adam Aron) — has grand ambitions for the company, says its new NFT marketplace partner. “The default is gaming,” Immutable X co-founder Robbie Ferguson said on Yahoo Finance Live when asked about Cohen’s vision for GameStop. “The one-stop, ultimate destination in which everyone can come and trade their in-gamed owned items.” Ferguson’s team will help GameStop achieve that mission. The pair inked a deal… Source link