{"id":19155,"date":"2025-03-26T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19155"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:16:38","slug":"gamestop-cash-pile-expands-3-4-in-q4-amid-bitcoin-buying-report-analyst-says-stock-could-drop-if-valued-as-a-btc-treasury-like-michael-saylors-mstr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=19155","title":{"rendered":"GameStop Cash Pile Expands 3.4% In Q4 Amid Bitcoin Buying Report: Analyst Says Stock Could Drop If Valued As A BTC Treasury Like Michael Saylor&#8217;s MSTR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>GameStop Corp.<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/GME#NYSE\">GME<\/a>) reported a 3.44% increase in its cash holdings during the fourth quarter. It reported a mixed quarter and announced that its board has unanimously agreed to add <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) as a treasury reserve asset.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>GameStop reported cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities worth $4.775 billion at the close of the fourth quarter, which represented a 3.44% increase from $4.616 billion in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The company also announced adding Bitcoin as a reserve asset to its portfolio, confirming the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/market-summary\/25\/02\/43773441\/ahead-of-gamestops-bitcoin-purchase-plans-blackrock-morgan-stanley-goldman-sachs-and-other-billion-dollar-funds-load-up-on-gme-stock-in-q4\">February speculation<\/a> when the stock had surged after the video game retailer\u2019s chairman and CEO, <strong>Ryan Cohen<\/strong>, posed with <strong>Michael Saylor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Wedbush Securities\u2019 managing director of equity research, <strong>Michael Pachter<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/video\/gamestop-earnings-preview-wedbush-explains-220000119.html\">told<\/a> Yahoo Finance that if GME is valued like a BTC treasury company akin to Saylor\u2019s <strong>Strategy Inc.<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MSTR#NASDAQ\">MSTR<\/a>), the company\u2019s stock would have to decline.<\/p>\n<p>He described GME as \u201ca rich man\u2019s MicroStrategy,\u201d adding that \u201cif you want to pay even more for even less, you &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/analyst-ratings\/analyst-color\/25\/03\/44491710\/gamestop-cash-pile-expands-3-4-in-q4-amid-bitcoin-buying-report-analyst-says-stock-\" alt=\"GameStop\" cash pile expands in q4 amid bitcoin buying report: analyst says stock could drop if valued as a btc treasury like michael saylor mstr>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) reported a 3.44% increase in its cash holdings during the fourth quarter. It reported a mixed quarter and announced that its board has unanimously agreed to add Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as a treasury reserve asset. What Happened: GameStop reported cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities worth $4.775 billion at the close of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-19155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}