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The proposed CEO Performance Award was a large stock option package for Ryan Cohen that GameStop’s board approved in January 2026.

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen dropped his performance award of up to 171,537,327 shares to focus on the eBay acquisition.

Investing.com -- GameStop Corp. said Tuesday its board has approved Chairman and CEO Ryan Cohen's request to withdraw a proposed CEO Performance Award from the company's proxy statement as the retailer shifts focus to its planned acquisition of eBay Inc.

Ryan Cohen, the billionaire CEO of GameStop, will not receive a potential performance award from ‌the videogame retailer and plans to unveil more details ‌about his bid to takeover eBay soon, the company said on Tuesday. GameStop unveiled ​a compensation package worth roughly $35 billion for Cohen in January, hinging on a turnaround that requires him to lift the struggling company's market value more than tenfold and sharply boost its profit. EBay ‌rejected a $56 billion takeover ⁠bid from the much smaller GameStop in May, citing financing doubts and calling the proposal "neither credible ⁠nor attractive."

GameStop posts a double-digit net margin while StubHub expands its global event footprint, yet their financial health and risk profiles diverge sharply.

Palantir shares hit a 52-week low on Monday as software stocks struggled. Palantir stock has dropped over 30% in 2026.

Jun. 20—ROCHESTER — North Rock Real Estate and a group of investors recently paid $8.98 million for the Rochester Crossings commercial center in northwest Rochester. Under the corporate name of Rochester Crossings LLC, the group purchased the 23-year-old center at 3780 Marketplace Drive NW, on June 11. Olmsted County estimated the total market value of the property at $7.12 million for ...

GameStop faces a shareholder lawsuit over Ryan Cohen’s potential $35 billion pay package despite posting one of its strongest quarters in years.

eBay shareholders blocked Proposal 4, closing a key governance route for Ryan Cohen as hostile takeover speculation rises.

Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.

The recent surge in Space Exploration Technologies Corp. shares is more a testament to Elon Musk‘s transformative business acumen than the company’s current earnings, says CNBC’s Jim Cramer. Cramer opined that the company, potentially facing losses for years to come,...

Best Buy has lagged the Nasdaq Composite over the past year, and analysts are cautious about BBY stock.

Investing.com -- A GameStop Corp. investor filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to stop a shareholder vote on a $35 billion pay package for Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen until the company provides proper disclosures, as reported on Tuesday by Bloomberg.

Markets and commentators have a habit of confusing popularity with speculation. When a stock rises rapidly, skeptics too often reach for the same label: meme stock. That description fit companies like GameStop (NASDAQ:GME) and AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) during the pandemic-era trading frenzy, where social media enthusiasm often outpaced business fundamentals. But not every stock that ... Jim Cramer Says SpaceX Is a ‘Meme Stock.’ He Couldn’t Be More Wrong.

Dave & Buster’s CEO pointed to weak consumer spending, while retail traders criticized leadership following results.

Stocks rallied on optimism surrounding a potential U.S.-Iran peace deal and SpaceX's historic IPO debut, reinforcing investor confidence and market momentum

GameStop's CEO is not backing off despite eBay's refusal to be acquired by a company five times smaller.

GameStop (NYSE:GME) CEO Ryan Cohen has launched a hostile takeover bid for eBay, taking the offer directly to eBay shareholders after the board rejected the proposal. At the same time, GameStop has announced a US$2b share repurchase program, tied to its focus on collectibles and a shift in how it deploys capital. GameStop, long associated with brick and mortar video game retail, has been leaning more into collectibles and related categories, an area that can behave differently from...

Stock performance snapshot GameStop (GME) continues to attract attention as investors reassess the stock following recent trading moves, with the price closing at $22.42 and the company carrying a market value of about $10b. Over the past month, the stock is down 3.2%, and over the past 3 months it is down 8.2%. Year to date, it is up 8.7%, while the 1 year total return is down 20.5% and the 3 year total return is down 11.7%. See our latest analysis for GameStop. Recent trading has been...

Is GME a good stock to buy? We came across a bullish thesis on GameStop Corp. on Value Don’t Lie’s Substack. In this article, we will summarize the bulls’ thesis on GME. GameStop Corp.’s share was trading at $22.26 as of June 8th. GME’s trailing P/E was 16.27 according to Yahoo Finance. GameStop Corp., a specialty retailer, […]

GameStop (NYSE:GME) has reinvented itself into a cash-rich holding company rather than a brick-and-mortar gaming retailer, and the market is still struggling to price what that means. After a blowout Q1 FY26 report, neutral retail sentiment, and a deep disconnect with traditional Wall Street coverage, my model sees meaningful upside from current levels. The 24/7 ... GameStop Surges on Q1 Beat, $2B Buyback, $39 Target

GameStop's core business is improving and showing record profits; improvement is overshadowed by eBay confusion and high short interest.

E-commerce pet food and supplies retailer Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2026, with sales up 7.7% year on year to $3.36 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.43 per share was in line with analysts’ consensus estimates.

GameStop’s bid to buy eBay was loudly rejected by the company’s board. Ryan Cohen remains committed to the deal and says it will ultimately be up to shareholders.

What happens when Nvidia’s annual dividend suddenly exceeds The Motley Fool's original cost basis -- six times over? Plus more from this month's Mailbag.

In recent days, research outlet Capital Flows highlighted Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (PURR) as a candidate for a GameStop-style gamma squeeze, citing its small tradable float, elevated trading activity, and upcoming addition to the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indexes later in June 2026. At the same time, large investments by Goldman Sachs and Andreessen Horowitz into Hyperliquid and its HYPE-focused treasury vehicle have intensified attention on the project’s fee-driven token buyback...

Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow Jones indices all ended the week ending June 5, lower.

“I want to own eBay,” GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen told Barron’s in an exclusive interview. “I want to own it for the long term.”

GameStop’s bid to buy eBay was loudly rejected by the company’s board. Ryan Cohen remains committed to the deal and says it will ultimately be up to shareholders.

Potato futures were all over the place in May thanks to ongoing geopolitical tensions. Investors need to pay attention, because this boom-and-bust story tells us more about damaging speculative behavior than it does about crops.