GameStop (GME) Q1 2024 earnings results post larger than expected loss
GameStop has pre-announced its full Q1 2024 earnings report as the company announces a secondary offering of shares. Here's all the details.
GameStop has reported its Q1 2024 earnings results. While the company already pre-announced disappointing revenues of $881.8 million down 28% from Q1 2023, we also got news that the struggling brick and mortar video game retailer posted a wider than expected loss of $0.12/share versus Wall Street analysts' consensus expectation of a $0.09/share loss. GameStop will not be holding an earnings results conference call today.
Source: GameStop Investor Relations
It's important to note that today's earnings release does not cover the period of time in which GameStop has issued millions of shares in two secondary offerings in the interest of bolstering the company's cash balance over the past month.
While GameStop had already pre-announced the Q1 2024 revenue miss it appears that the one-two punch of this weak earnings report and a 75 million share secondary offering have shareholders taking pause after a mammoth run in the share price in the month of May.
Many investors still will be tuning into Roaring Kitty's livestream today at noon to see what the GameStop investor's next move will be with his extremely large GME share and options position.
This article is only meant for educational purposes, and should not be taken as investment advice. Please consider your own investment time horizon, risk tolerance, and consult with a financial advisor before acting on this information.
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At the time of this article, Shacknews primary shareholder Asif A. Khan, his family members, or his company Virtue LLC had the following positions:
Long GameStop via GME shares
Long GameStop via GME call options
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Wall Street's worst kept secret for many years was GameStop's short interest being above 100% of existing shares. Many analysts thought that the company's bankruptcy was inevitable. Through a series of very unlikely events, GameStop made it through the 2020 lockdown, and the squeeze began. We were never given a true explanation of how the shorts covered in the Spring of 2021. GameStop has taken advantage of these squeeze runs over the years by issuing shares, increasing their cash holdings, paying down debt, and investing in several things.
GameStop will likely have $5 billion in cash with next to zero debt on its balance sheet after the most recent secondary offering is completed.
While it is not necessarily bullish for shares to dilute existing shareholders, it remains to be seen what GameStop will do with its cash holdings.
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In my opinion, it is better to describe this situation as a company with a dying business model that has been given an opportunity to pivot.
The first pivot failed. This current pivot allows the CEO to make outside investments in a portfolio management style with GameStop’s cash holdings.
https://www.shacknews.com/article/138009/gamestop-gme-investment-policy-ryan-cohen
This new Investment Policy may turn GameStop into a holding company akin to Berkshire Hathaway.
That’s if Ryan Cohen doesn’t blow it all on something dumb.
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Gamestop will do the most sensible thing with their cash holdings. Buy more Funko Pops!
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