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If GameStop earnings looked weak to you, you’re not who GameStop really cares about<blockquote>如果你认为游戏驿站的盈利疲软，那么你并不是游戏驿站真正关心的人</blockquote>
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Just ask The Mother Meme: GameStop.</p><p><blockquote>但在2021年，模因股之年，情况不再如此。问问母亲迷因就知道了：游戏驿站。</blockquote></p><p> GameStop on Wednesday reported that it lost $105.4 million — or $1.39 a share — while Wall Street was looking for something more in the 52-cents range, especially since GameStop only lost 29 cents a share in 2020’s third quarter.</p><p><blockquote>游戏驿站周三报告称，该公司亏损1.054亿美元，即每股亏损1.39美元，而华尔街则在52美分的范围内寻求更多的收益，特别是因为游戏驿站在2020年第三季度每股仅亏损29美分。</blockquote></p><p> Predictably, GameStop stock fell steeply in Wednesday’s after-hours trading as Wall Street once again shook its head at what is going on at the videogame retailer.</p><p><blockquote>不出所料，游戏驿站股价在周三盘后交易中大幅下跌，华尔街再次对这家视频游戏零售商的情况摇头。</blockquote></p><p> But on social media, where GameStop stock’s most important investor base operates, the results were met with excitement as retail investors devoted to the stock and its guru chairman Ryan Cohen divined positive results in the metrics they actually care about.</p><p><blockquote>但在游戏驿站股票最重要的投资者基础所在的社交媒体上，这一结果引起了人们的兴奋，因为致力于该股的散户投资者及其大师董事长瑞恩·科恩(Ryan Cohen)预测了他们真正关心的指标的积极结果。</blockquote></p><p> To start, GameStop also disclosed that sales rose to $1.3 billion, easily beating Wall Street’s consensus estimate of $1.19 billion, and chalking up at least some of that growth to “new and expanded brand relationships,” and some of the company’s biggest spending appears to be on growing its fulfillment operations to fuel its move from a brick-and-mortar operation to an e-commerce growth story.</p><p><blockquote>首先，游戏驿站还透露，销售额升至13亿美元，轻松超过华尔街普遍预期的11.9亿美元，并将这一增长至少部分归因于“新的和扩大的品牌关系”，以及该公司一些最大的支出似乎正在发展其履行业务，以推动其从实体业务向电子商务增长故事的转变。</blockquote></p><p> These are what many of GameStop’s die-hard Reddit “Apes” delight in hearing from Cohen and his team, and they can eschew EPS since they remain hyper-focused on the long-term growth of the company and Cohen’s still-ethereal “master plan.”</p><p><blockquote>这些是游戏驿站的许多Reddit铁杆“猿”喜欢从科恩和他的团队那里听到的话，他们可以避开每股收益，因为他们仍然高度关注公司的长期增长和科恩仍然飘渺的“总体规划”。”</blockquote></p><p> And don’t just take our word for it. Retail investors continue to take their shares and lock them up in direct-registration systems with companies like Computershare CPU, 0.20% that keep investors from getting access and borrowing the shares to short them.</p><p><blockquote>不要只相信我们的话。散户投资者继续持有自己的股票，并将其锁定在Computershare CPU（0.20%）等公司的直接注册系统中，这使得投资者无法访问和借入股票来做空它们。</blockquote></p><p> Between the notion of growing sales, more e-commerce operations and expanded partnerships with companies that provide GameStop increased access to the meme-y Promised Land of blockchain and Non-Fungible Tokens, GME fans could argue there was really no need for an informative earnings call — despite the stock falling as much as 6.7% in after-hours trading.</p><p><blockquote>在不断增长的销售额、更多的电子商务运营以及与为游戏驿站提供更多获得区块链和不可替代代币的迷因应之地的公司扩大合作伙伴关系的概念之间，GME粉丝可能会争辩说，确实没有必要提供信息尽管该股在盘后交易中下跌了6.7%，但看涨期权的收益。</blockquote></p><p> And that’s kind of what investors got.</p><p><blockquote>这就是投资者得到的。</blockquote></p><p> Once again, GameStop CEO Matt Furlong presided over a very brief call that did not include Cohen but did reference NFTs, blockchain and reinforced the company’s commitment to serving customers and shareholders.</p><p><blockquote>游戏驿站首席执行官马特·弗隆（Matt Furlong）再次主持了一次非常简短的看涨期权，其中不包括科恩，但确实提到了NFT、区块链，并强化了公司为客户和股东服务的承诺。</blockquote></p><p> Cohen’s mysterious plan, which has come under fire from some analysts and GameStop observers for months now, did — like Cohen — not materialize on Wednesday, but Cohen’s no-show and the brevity of the call did not disappoint Apes, who not only predicted it on Reddit but supported it as part of the plan.</p><p><blockquote>科恩的神秘计划几个月来一直受到一些分析师和游戏驿站观察家的批评，与科恩一样，周三没有实现，但科恩的缺席和看涨期权的简短并没有让Apes失望，他们不仅在Reddit上预测了这一点，但支持它作为计划的一部分。</blockquote></p><p> “There will be a bunch of FUD [fear, uncertainty, and doubt] posts saying ‘We need to know a plan in the conference call tomorrow/today, they owe it to us,'” read one post on GameStop subreddit r/Superstonk. “They don’t owe you shit. Let them continue executing. You just BUY and HOLD and DRS.”</p><p><blockquote>“将会有一堆FUD（恐惧、不确定性和怀疑）帖子说‘我们需要知道明天/今天电话会议的计划，他们欠我们的，’”游戏驿站subreddit r/Superstonk上的一篇帖子写道。“他们不欠你什么。让他们继续执行吧。你只要买入并持有和DRS就行了。”</blockquote></p><p> In general, GameStop Apes were thrilled with an earnings report that most Wall Street analysts will find disappointing — but once again the analysts are failing to realize that GameStop doesn’t see traditional Wall Street as its audience, and is even growing to see it as its opposition.</p><p><blockquote>总的来说，游戏驿站的猿类对大多数华尔街分析师都会感到失望的收益报告感到兴奋——但分析师们再次未能意识到，游戏驿站并不将传统华尔街视为其受众，甚至越来越多地将其视为其对手。</blockquote></p><p> But one thing that even GameStop execs might have to spend a little more time explaining is a curious disclosure at the end of its earnings filing.</p><p><blockquote>但即使是游戏驿站高管也可能不得不花更多时间解释的一件事是其财报末尾的一项奇怪披露。</blockquote></p><p> Citing an SEC investigation started in May into the January short squeeze on GameStop stock that appeared to be closed after the SEC released its report in October, the company stated Wednesday in its filing that the SEC asked for additional documents “on August 25, 2021” and that “We are in the process of producing the documents and have been and intend to continue cooperating fully with the SEC Staff regarding this matter.”</p><p><blockquote>该公司周三在其文件中表示，SEC于5月份开始对游戏驿站股票1月份轧空事件进行调查，该调查似乎在SEC 10月份发布报告后结束，该公司周三在其文件中表示，SEC“于2021年8月25日要求提供更多文件”并且“我们正在制作文件，并且已经并打算继续就此事与SEC工作人员充分合作。”</blockquote></p><p> In the end, GameStop’s CEO Furlong stuck to the loose script of growth that appealed to his real audience, telling listeners on the call — there were no questions asked — that GameStop is now on the quest to find “scale” that it will use to keep driving growth and change.</p><p><blockquote>最终，游戏驿站首席执行官弗隆坚持了吸引真正观众的松散增长脚本，他告诉看涨期权的听众——没有提出任何问题——游戏驿站现在正在寻求找到它将用来继续推动增长和变革的“规模”。</blockquote></p><p> And if you’re the kind of investor who might have come away from that kind of talk wondering what that even means when your losses are widening, and when GameStop is going to stop acting like a meme stock and start acting like the kind of company Wall Street wants to invest in, we can help.</p><p><blockquote>如果您是那种投资者，可能会从这种谈话中走出来，想知道当您的损失扩大时，以及当游戏驿站将停止像模因股票一样行事并开始像华尔街想要投资的公司一样行事时，这意味着什么。</blockquote></p><p> The answers are: Why would it do either when the stock is up more than 900% in 2021? And also, GameStop isn’t talking to you.</p><p><blockquote>答案是：当该股在2021年上涨超过900%时，为什么它会这样做呢？还有，游戏驿站不是在跟你说话。</blockquote></p><p></p>","source":"market_watch","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>If GameStop earnings looked weak to you, you’re not who GameStop really cares about<blockquote>如果你认为游戏驿站的盈利疲软，那么你并不是游戏驿站真正关心的人</blockquote></title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nIf GameStop earnings looked weak to you, you’re not who GameStop really cares about<blockquote>如果你认为游戏驿站的盈利疲软，那么你并不是游戏驿站真正关心的人</blockquote>\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"head\">\n<strong class=\"h-name small\">Marketwatch</strong><span class=\"h-time small\">2021-12-09 08:50</span>\n</p>\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Often, when a public company really underwhelms Wall Street estimates on a key metric for a quarterly earnings report, the executives of that company will use the earnings call with analysts to explain away what happened lest they risk the wrath of investors primed to get what they want.</p><p><blockquote>通常，当一家上市公司在季度收益报告的关键指标上确实低于华尔街的预期时，该公司的高管会利用与分析师的收益看涨期权来解释发生了什么，以免冒着投资者愤怒的风险。他们想要的。</blockquote></p><p> But in 2021, the year of meme stocks, that is no longer the case. Just ask The Mother Meme: GameStop.</p><p><blockquote>但在2021年，模因股之年，情况不再如此。问问母亲迷因就知道了：游戏驿站。</blockquote></p><p> GameStop on Wednesday reported that it lost $105.4 million — or $1.39 a share — while Wall Street was looking for something more in the 52-cents range, especially since GameStop only lost 29 cents a share in 2020’s third quarter.</p><p><blockquote>游戏驿站周三报告称，该公司亏损1.054亿美元，即每股亏损1.39美元，而华尔街则在52美分的范围内寻求更多的收益，特别是因为游戏驿站在2020年第三季度每股仅亏损29美分。</blockquote></p><p> Predictably, GameStop stock fell steeply in Wednesday’s after-hours trading as Wall Street once again shook its head at what is going on at the videogame retailer.</p><p><blockquote>不出所料，游戏驿站股价在周三盘后交易中大幅下跌，华尔街再次对这家视频游戏零售商的情况摇头。</blockquote></p><p> But on social media, where GameStop stock’s most important investor base operates, the results were met with excitement as retail investors devoted to the stock and its guru chairman Ryan Cohen divined positive results in the metrics they actually care about.</p><p><blockquote>但在游戏驿站股票最重要的投资者基础所在的社交媒体上，这一结果引起了人们的兴奋，因为致力于该股的散户投资者及其大师董事长瑞恩·科恩(Ryan Cohen)预测了他们真正关心的指标的积极结果。</blockquote></p><p> To start, GameStop also disclosed that sales rose to $1.3 billion, easily beating Wall Street’s consensus estimate of $1.19 billion, and chalking up at least some of that growth to “new and expanded brand relationships,” and some of the company’s biggest spending appears to be on growing its fulfillment operations to fuel its move from a brick-and-mortar operation to an e-commerce growth story.</p><p><blockquote>首先，游戏驿站还透露，销售额升至13亿美元，轻松超过华尔街普遍预期的11.9亿美元，并将这一增长至少部分归因于“新的和扩大的品牌关系”，以及该公司一些最大的支出似乎正在发展其履行业务，以推动其从实体业务向电子商务增长故事的转变。</blockquote></p><p> These are what many of GameStop’s die-hard Reddit “Apes” delight in hearing from Cohen and his team, and they can eschew EPS since they remain hyper-focused on the long-term growth of the company and Cohen’s still-ethereal “master plan.”</p><p><blockquote>这些是游戏驿站的许多Reddit铁杆“猿”喜欢从科恩和他的团队那里听到的话，他们可以避开每股收益，因为他们仍然高度关注公司的长期增长和科恩仍然飘渺的“总体规划”。”</blockquote></p><p> And don’t just take our word for it. Retail investors continue to take their shares and lock them up in direct-registration systems with companies like Computershare CPU, 0.20% that keep investors from getting access and borrowing the shares to short them.</p><p><blockquote>不要只相信我们的话。散户投资者继续持有自己的股票，并将其锁定在Computershare CPU（0.20%）等公司的直接注册系统中，这使得投资者无法访问和借入股票来做空它们。</blockquote></p><p> Between the notion of growing sales, more e-commerce operations and expanded partnerships with companies that provide GameStop increased access to the meme-y Promised Land of blockchain and Non-Fungible Tokens, GME fans could argue there was really no need for an informative earnings call — despite the stock falling as much as 6.7% in after-hours trading.</p><p><blockquote>在不断增长的销售额、更多的电子商务运营以及与为游戏驿站提供更多获得区块链和不可替代代币的迷因应之地的公司扩大合作伙伴关系的概念之间，GME粉丝可能会争辩说，确实没有必要提供信息尽管该股在盘后交易中下跌了6.7%，但看涨期权的收益。</blockquote></p><p> And that’s kind of what investors got.</p><p><blockquote>这就是投资者得到的。</blockquote></p><p> Once again, GameStop CEO Matt Furlong presided over a very brief call that did not include Cohen but did reference NFTs, blockchain and reinforced the company’s commitment to serving customers and shareholders.</p><p><blockquote>游戏驿站首席执行官马特·弗隆（Matt Furlong）再次主持了一次非常简短的看涨期权，其中不包括科恩，但确实提到了NFT、区块链，并强化了公司为客户和股东服务的承诺。</blockquote></p><p> Cohen’s mysterious plan, which has come under fire from some analysts and GameStop observers for months now, did — like Cohen — not materialize on Wednesday, but Cohen’s no-show and the brevity of the call did not disappoint Apes, who not only predicted it on Reddit but supported it as part of the plan.</p><p><blockquote>科恩的神秘计划几个月来一直受到一些分析师和游戏驿站观察家的批评，与科恩一样，周三没有实现，但科恩的缺席和看涨期权的简短并没有让Apes失望，他们不仅在Reddit上预测了这一点，但支持它作为计划的一部分。</blockquote></p><p> “There will be a bunch of FUD [fear, uncertainty, and doubt] posts saying ‘We need to know a plan in the conference call tomorrow/today, they owe it to us,'” read one post on GameStop subreddit r/Superstonk. “They don’t owe you shit. Let them continue executing. You just BUY and HOLD and DRS.”</p><p><blockquote>“将会有一堆FUD（恐惧、不确定性和怀疑）帖子说‘我们需要知道明天/今天电话会议的计划，他们欠我们的，’”游戏驿站subreddit r/Superstonk上的一篇帖子写道。“他们不欠你什么。让他们继续执行吧。你只要买入并持有和DRS就行了。”</blockquote></p><p> In general, GameStop Apes were thrilled with an earnings report that most Wall Street analysts will find disappointing — but once again the analysts are failing to realize that GameStop doesn’t see traditional Wall Street as its audience, and is even growing to see it as its opposition.</p><p><blockquote>总的来说，游戏驿站的猿类对大多数华尔街分析师都会感到失望的收益报告感到兴奋——但分析师们再次未能意识到，游戏驿站并不将传统华尔街视为其受众，甚至越来越多地将其视为其对手。</blockquote></p><p> But one thing that even GameStop execs might have to spend a little more time explaining is a curious disclosure at the end of its earnings filing.</p><p><blockquote>但即使是游戏驿站高管也可能不得不花更多时间解释的一件事是其财报末尾的一项奇怪披露。</blockquote></p><p> Citing an SEC investigation started in May into the January short squeeze on GameStop stock that appeared to be closed after the SEC released its report in October, the company stated Wednesday in its filing that the SEC asked for additional documents “on August 25, 2021” and that “We are in the process of producing the documents and have been and intend to continue cooperating fully with the SEC Staff regarding this matter.”</p><p><blockquote>该公司周三在其文件中表示，SEC于5月份开始对游戏驿站股票1月份轧空事件进行调查，该调查似乎在SEC 10月份发布报告后结束，该公司周三在其文件中表示，SEC“于2021年8月25日要求提供更多文件”并且“我们正在制作文件，并且已经并打算继续就此事与SEC工作人员充分合作。”</blockquote></p><p> In the end, GameStop’s CEO Furlong stuck to the loose script of growth that appealed to his real audience, telling listeners on the call — there were no questions asked — that GameStop is now on the quest to find “scale” that it will use to keep driving growth and change.</p><p><blockquote>最终，游戏驿站首席执行官弗隆坚持了吸引真正观众的松散增长脚本，他告诉看涨期权的听众——没有提出任何问题——游戏驿站现在正在寻求找到它将用来继续推动增长和变革的“规模”。</blockquote></p><p> And if you’re the kind of investor who might have come away from that kind of talk wondering what that even means when your losses are widening, and when GameStop is going to stop acting like a meme stock and start acting like the kind of company Wall Street wants to invest in, we can help.</p><p><blockquote>如果您是那种投资者，可能会从这种谈话中走出来，想知道当您的损失扩大时，以及当游戏驿站将停止像模因股票一样行事并开始像华尔街想要投资的公司一样行事时，这意味着什么。</blockquote></p><p> The answers are: Why would it do either when the stock is up more than 900% in 2021? And also, GameStop isn’t talking to you.</p><p><blockquote>答案是：当该股在2021年上涨超过900%时，为什么它会这样做呢？还有，游戏驿站不是在跟你说话。</blockquote></p><p></p>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n<p> 来源：<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-gamestop-earnings-looked-weak-to-you-youre-not-who-gamestop-really-cares-about-11639008411?mod=newsviewer_click\">Marketwatch</a></p>\n<p>为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化</p>\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-gamestop-earnings-looked-weak-to-you-youre-not-who-gamestop-really-cares-about-11639008411?mod=newsviewer_click","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/599a65733b8245fcf7868668ef9ad712","article_id":"1199325462","content_text":"Often, when a public company really underwhelms Wall Street estimates on a key metric for a quarterly earnings report, the executives of that company will use the earnings call with analysts to explain away what happened lest they risk the wrath of investors primed to get what they want.\nBut in 2021, the year of meme stocks, that is no longer the case. Just ask The Mother Meme: GameStop.\nGameStop on Wednesday reported that it lost $105.4 million — or $1.39 a share — while Wall Street was looking for something more in the 52-cents range, especially since GameStop only lost 29 cents a share in 2020’s third quarter.\nPredictably, GameStop stock fell steeply in Wednesday’s after-hours trading as Wall Street once again shook its head at what is going on at the videogame retailer.\nBut on social media, where GameStop stock’s most important investor base operates, the results were met with excitement as retail investors devoted to the stock and its guru chairman Ryan Cohen divined positive results in the metrics they actually care about.\nTo start, GameStop also disclosed that sales rose to $1.3 billion, easily beating Wall Street’s consensus estimate of $1.19 billion, and chalking up at least some of that growth to “new and expanded brand relationships,” and some of the company’s biggest spending appears to be on growing its fulfillment operations to fuel its move from a brick-and-mortar operation to an e-commerce growth story.\nThese are what many of GameStop’s die-hard Reddit “Apes” delight in hearing from Cohen and his team, and they can eschew EPS since they remain hyper-focused on the long-term growth of the company and Cohen’s still-ethereal “master plan.”\nAnd don’t just take our word for it. Retail investors continue to take their shares and lock them up in direct-registration systems with companies like Computershare CPU, 0.20% that keep investors from getting access and borrowing the shares to short them.\nBetween the notion of growing sales, more e-commerce operations and expanded partnerships with companies that provide GameStop increased access to the meme-y Promised Land of blockchain and Non-Fungible Tokens, GME fans could argue there was really no need for an informative earnings call — despite the stock falling as much as 6.7% in after-hours trading.\nAnd that’s kind of what investors got.\nOnce again, GameStop CEO Matt Furlong presided over a very brief call that did not include Cohen but did reference NFTs, blockchain and reinforced the company’s commitment to serving customers and shareholders.\nCohen’s mysterious plan, which has come under fire from some analysts and GameStop observers for months now, did — like Cohen — not materialize on Wednesday, but Cohen’s no-show and the brevity of the call did not disappoint Apes, who not only predicted it on Reddit but supported it as part of the plan.\n“There will be a bunch of FUD [fear, uncertainty, and doubt] posts saying ‘We need to know a plan in the conference call tomorrow/today, they owe it to us,'” read one post on GameStop subreddit r/Superstonk. “They don’t owe you shit. Let them continue executing. You just BUY and HOLD and DRS.”\nIn general, GameStop Apes were thrilled with an earnings report that most Wall Street analysts will find disappointing — but once again the analysts are failing to realize that GameStop doesn’t see traditional Wall Street as its audience, and is even growing to see it as its opposition.\nBut one thing that even GameStop execs might have to spend a little more time explaining is a curious disclosure at the end of its earnings filing.\nCiting an SEC investigation started in May into the January short squeeze on GameStop stock that appeared to be closed after the SEC released its report in October, the company stated Wednesday in its filing that the SEC asked for additional documents “on August 25, 2021” and that “We are in the process of producing the documents and have been and intend to continue cooperating fully with the SEC Staff regarding this matter.”\nIn the end, GameStop’s CEO Furlong stuck to the loose script of growth that appealed to his real audience, telling listeners on the call — there were no questions asked — that GameStop is now on the quest to find “scale” that it will use to keep driving growth and change.\nAnd if you’re the kind of investor who might have come away from that kind of talk wondering what that even means when your losses are widening, and when GameStop is going to stop acting like a meme stock and start acting like the kind of company Wall Street wants to invest in, we can help.\nThe answers are: Why would it do either when the stock is up more than 900% in 2021? 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