GameStop Earnings Due Due to Declining Physical Video Game Sales | Business Investor Daily

Jim Stop (GME) announces its financial results for the fourth quarter after the market closes on Tuesday. Expectations are low but as one of the first in the retail phenomenon that has come to be called a stock meme, a retailer’s earnings reports often attract extraordinary attention. GME stock jumped Tuesday ahead of the results.

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With physical video game sales waning, GameStop has reported losses for all but one of the past eleven quarters. Losses for the last two periods narrowed to 31 cents per share in the third quarter. The holiday season is historically the best quarter for video game retailers. But GameStop’s console, accessory and video game sales suffered in 2022.

Hardware and accessory sales averaged a 4.3% decline during the first three quarters of GameStop’s fiscal year 2022. Software and video game sales averaged nearly 6% over that period as gamers increasingly turned to digital downloads.

And there wasn’t a big game console release this year to help juice results, as PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo systems have done in the past.

“Long-term headwinds include potential liquidity challenges and changing player preferences, with increasing appetite for cloud, digital mobile and subscription,” Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter wrote in a research note Thursday.

Butcher noted that Sony’s PlayStation 5 had strong sales during the holiday period, but “a large percentage of those units were sold directly to consumers.” He noted that the launch of GameStop’s non-fungible token market was disappointing. But GameStop physical collectible sales, such as Funko (FNKO) POPS!, they probably did well during the quarter.

Patcher repeated the underperform rating with a price target of $5.30 per GME share, which it first reported in December after its third-quarter earnings. Shares traded above $17 on Tuesday, down about 86% from their January 2021 high.

“Stocks have remained at trading levels disconnected from business fundamentals due to irrational support from some retail investors,” he wrote.

GameStop earnings

Analysts expect GameStop’s loss to narrow for the third consecutive quarter, to 13 cents a share, from a loss of 47 cents a year ago. Wall Street expects revenue to decline for the third consecutive period, falling 3.2% to $2.18 billion.

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GameStop stock jumped 5.5% on Tuesday, ahead of the results. GME stock is down 3.5% so far this year.

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