Hasil GameStop Siap Dirilis Sementara Euforia Bitcoin Terus Mengitari Perusahaan

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GameStop Corp. reports its fourth-quarter results after market close on Tuesday amid ongoing chatter that Chief Executive Ryan Cohen could turn the videogame retailer and original meme stock into some form of bitcoin play.

Recent years have been tough on GameStop marked by falling sales amid fierce competition from digital gaming. However, the company did report a surprise third-quarter profit in December.

For the fourth quarter, analysts surveyed by FactSet are looking for earnings of 8 cents a share and revenue of $1.477 billion.

Hasil kuartal keempat GameStop datang sambil Cohen terus berupaya untuk menyederhanakan perusahaan. Bulan lalu, GameStop mengumulkan bahwa mereka sedang melakukan hal ini selling some of its international operations and had launched a “store portfolio optimization review,” which involves identifying stores for closure.

GameStop juga telah merambah bisnis kartu perdagangan. Tahun lalu, perusahaan mengumumkan kerjasama dengan divisi Professional Sports Authenticator milik Collectors Holdings Inc., yang menawarkan layanan pengautentikan dan penilaian tanda-tangan serta kartu perdagangan.

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Namun dalam catatan yang dirilis Senin, analis dari Wedbush, Michael Pachter menulis bahwa dia tidak melihat adanya potensi untuk pemulihan bisnis utama GameStop.

“The company has once again accelerated store closures in an attempt to save its way to prosperity, and its plans to enter the trading-card business and to invest in cryptocurrency are striking in their lack of specificity; with no clear strategy to leverage its store base, management appears to be planning a withdrawal from its core business and hoping that its entry into a wildly fragmented trading-card business or investment in crypto can drive it to profitability despite its utter lack of competitive advantage.”

Saham GameStop diperdagangkan pada tingkat yang "mengabaikan banyak hal tentang perusahaan" tersebut.

challenges ahead,” Pachter wrote. Wedbush reiterated its underperform rating and $10 price target for GameStop.

Nonetheless, GameStop has a sizeable cash pile, which amounted to $4.616 billion at the end of the third quarter and could potentially be used to invest in bitcoin

Cryptocurrency talk has been swirling around GameStop in recent weeks. On Feb 26, Cohen confirmed on X that he received a letter from Strive Asset Management CEO Matt Cole urging GameStop to dive into bitcoin.

Dalam surat tersebut, seperti dilaporkan oleh Coindesk , Cole noted that his company’s clients hold shares of GameStop through Strive Asset Management’s ETFs. GameStop, he wrote, “has an incredible opportunity to transform its financial future by becoming the premier bitcoin treasury company in the gaming sector.”

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Postingan Cohen di X muncul kurang lebih dua minggu setelah dia memposting foto dirinya bersama dengan Michael Saylor, yang merupakan ketua eksekutif perusahaan lunak dan peserta Bitcoin bernama MicroStrategy Inc. Perusahaan tersebut baru-baru ini mengubah namanya menjadi Strategy pada bulan lalu sambil tetap menyimpan bitcoin sebagai bagian darinyai. primary treasury-reserve asset sejak tahun 2020 dan telah giat membeli kriptocurrency tersebut.

The post sparked speculation on social media that GameStop is planning a bitcoin investment, which continues to rumble on the eve of the company’s results.

Bitcoin has recently plunged from its record high, although a potential foray by GameStop into the cryptocurrency could be an attempt to reap the benefits of a crypto-friendly Trump administration. Stocks in the crypto space include online brokerage Robinhood Markets Inc. which has risen 153.5% in the last 12 months, and Strategy, which is up 80.9%. However, crypto-trading exchange Coinbase Global Inc.  is down 27.4% in that time.

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GameStop shares are up 69.4% in the last 12 months, although the stock has fallen 18.3% in 2025 so far.

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GameStop, seperti AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., naik karena gairah saham meme pada tahun 2021. kembalian dari pedagang berpengaruh Keith Gill , also known as “Roaring Kitty,” to social media last year gave the stocks another boost. In Gill’s first YouTube livestream pada Juni tahun 2024 dalam tiga tahun ke depan, sang pedagang menggambarkan dirinya masih sebagai seorang " believer ” in GameStop.

Stocktwits, a social platform for investors and traders, told Radar Berita Globalthat it was seeing a large sentiment swing toward the bullish side for GameStop on Monday.

"Beberapa pengguna masih menjadi orang yang sangat percaya bahwa panggilan pendapatan ini dapat memicu terjadinya short squeeze, sementara yang lain hanya berharap untuk melihat kembali Roaring Kitty," kata Noor Al, direktur komunitas di Stocktwits.