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GameStop is a game retailer in the US. It captured the attention of people around the world in January 2021 leading to huge volatility in the price of GME stocks. GME shares started 2021 trading around $17.25, before rocketing to higher than $300 in late January thanks to a concerted push by Reddit’s WallStreetBets investing community, and the stock remains extremely volatile. Its share price surged again on February 24 2021 in the last couple of hours of trading.
Since the stock market crash that started in February 2020, GameStop's share price has had significant positive movement.
Its last market close was $108.73, which is 96.28% up on its pre-crash value of $4.04 and 3,313.92% up on the lowest point reached during the March 2020 crash when the shares fell as low as $3.1849.
If you had bought $1,000 worth of GameStop shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth $964.54 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth $27,526.09.
Open | $171.8 |
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High | $175.2 |
Low | $162.33 |
Close | $164.37 |
Previous close | $154.69 |
Change | $9.68 |
Change % | 6.2577% |
Volume | 10,428,900 |
52-week range | $3.77 - $483 |
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50-day moving average | $176.0162 |
200-day moving average | $69.6052 |
Wall St. target price | $40.36 |
Dividend yield | $0 (0%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $-10.664 |
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Historical closes compared with the last close of $164.37
1 week (2021-04-12) | 16.50% |
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1 month (2021-03-19) | -17.93% |
6 months (2020-10-16) | 1,134.94% |
1 year (2020-04-17) | 3,268.24% |
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2 years (2019-04-18) | 1,774.23% |
3 years (2018-04-18) | 1,103.29% |
5 years (2016-04-18) | 410.31% |
Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value.
GameStop's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.86. A PEG ratio below 1 can be interpreted as meaning the shares are not overvalued given the current rate of growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into GameStop's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
However, it's sensible to consider GameStop's PEG ratio in relation to those of similar companies.
GameStop's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $111.3 million (£0.0 million).
The EBITDA is a measure of a GameStop's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
To put that into context you can compare it against similar companies.
Revenue TTM | $5.1 billion |
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Gross profit TTM | $1.3 billion |
Return on assets TTM | -5.89% |
Return on equity TTM | -40.95% |
Profit margin | -4.23% |
Book value | $6.688 |
Market capitalisation | $11.7 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 10.7 million GameStop shares held short by investors – that's known as the "short interest". This figure is 24.7% down from 14.2 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting GameStop shares can be evaluated.
GameStop's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of GameStop shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of GameStop shares traded daily (recently around 29.7 million). GameStop's SIR currently stands at 0.36. In other words for every 100,000 GameStop shares traded daily on the market, roughly 360 shares are currently held short.
To gain some more context, you can compare GameStop's short interest ratio against those of similar companies.
However GameStop's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of GameStop shares, or, against the total number of tradable GameStop shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case GameStop's short interest could be expressed as 0.15% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 GameStop shares in existence, roughly 150 shares are currently held short) or 0.3893% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable GameStop shares, roughly 389 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against GameStop.
Find out more about how you can short GameStop stock.
We're not expecting GameStop to pay a dividend over the next 12 months. However, you can browse other dividend-paying shares in our guide.
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GameStop's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 18 March 2007. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your GameStop shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for GameStop shares which in turn could have impacted GameStop's share price.
Over the last 12 months, GameStop's shares have ranged in value from as little as $3.77 up to $483. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while GameStop's is -1.8169. This would suggest that GameStop's shares have been inversely-correlated to the average (for this exchange) – so when the broader market trended up or down, GameStop has bucked the trend.
To put GameStop's beta into context you can compare it against those of similar companies.
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