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2021-03-19

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Why Is Everyone (Still) Talking About GameStop Stock?<blockquote>为什么每个人（仍然）都在谈论游戏驿站股票？</blockquote>

It's a GameStop world. We're just living in it.GameStop(NYSE:GME)has to be 2021's most interesting s

Why Is Everyone (Still) Talking About GameStop Stock?<blockquote>为什么每个人（仍然）都在谈论游戏驿站股票？</blockquote>

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We're just living in it.GameStop(NYSE:GME)has to be 2021's most interesting s","content":"It's a GameStop world. We're just living in it.GameStop(NYSE:GME)has to be 2021's most interesting stock. The video game retailer started to pick up momentum ahead of the launch of new game consoles fromSonyandMicrosoftlast year, and over the past two months, short-squeeze mania and other big developments have led to incredible swings for the the company's share price.<blockquote>这是一个游戏驿站的世界。我们只是生活在其中。游戏驿站（纽约证券交易所股票代码：GME）一定是2021年最有趣的股票。在推出新游戏机之前，这家视频游戏零售商开始加快发展势头索尼和微软去年和过去两个月，轧空狂热和其他重大事态发展导致该公司股价出现令人难以置信的波动。</blockquote>GameStop's stock climbed as high as $483 per share during the height of short-squeeze mania. While the stock briefly returned to trading in the range of $50 per share, it's bounced back once again and traded at $201.75 at Thursday's close. That price represents a 971% increase year to date and a 4,715% increase from the $4.19 share price the stock had one year ago.<blockquote>在轧空狂热最严重的时候，游戏驿站的股价一度攀升至每股483美元。虽然该股短暂回到每股50美元的区间交易，但再次反弹，周四收盘时交易价格为201.75美元。该价格今年迄今上涨了971%，较一年前4.19美元的股价上涨了4,715%。</blockquote>Why is GameStop surging, and what comes next?<blockquote>游戏驿站为何风起云涌，接下来会发生什么？</blockquote>How did we get here?<blockquote>我们是怎么到这里的？</blockquote>The start of GameStop's improbable, supercharged rally can be traced back to the introduction of Sony's PlayStation 5 console and Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Series S platforms in 2020. New console launches have historically led to a cyclical upcycle for GameStop's business and stock performance.<blockquote>游戏驿站不可思议的增压拉力赛的开始可以追溯到2020年Sony PlayStation 5游戏机以及微软Xbox Series X和Series S平台的推出。从历史上看，新游戏机的推出会导致游戏驿站业务和股票表现的周期性上升周期。</blockquote>Pricing momentum created by the new hardware launches was further intensified by news that activist investor andChewyco-founder Ryan Cohen was amassing a large stake in the company and would advocate for pushing the business toward an e-commerce focus.<blockquote>激进投资者和耐嚼联合创始人瑞安·科恩(Ryan Cohen)持有该公司的大量股份，并主张将业务推向电子商务重点。</blockquote>From there, Reddit's WallStreetBets group began championing the stock as a potential target for a hugeshort squeeze. Social media users noticed that enormous short interest had amassed against GameStop -- and that a massive run for the stock could potentially be generated through a bit of favorable news and coordinated buying.<blockquote>从那时起，Reddit的WallStreetBets小组开始支持该股作为大规模轧空的潜在目标。社交媒体用户注意到，针对游戏驿站的巨大空头兴趣已经积累，并且通过一些有利消息和协调购买，该股可能会出现大规模上涨。</blockquote>Prior to the first major short squeeze, GameStop had about 50 million shares of its stock outstanding. At the same time, roughly 70 million shares of the company's stock had been sold short -- meaning that investors had placed bets against more shares of the company's stock than actually existed.<blockquote>在第一次重大轧空之前，游戏驿站拥有约5000万股已发行股票。与此同时，大约7000万股该公司股票被卖空，这意味着投资者对该公司股票的押注多于实际存在的股票。</blockquote>Short interest exceeding the company's actual outstanding share count was made possible through a practice callednaked short selling, which allows bets to be placed against shares that haven't actually been borrowed. WallStreetBets members wound up being right about the squeeze, and GameStop bulls notched incredible gains as short-sellers were forced to buy back the stock at elevated levels in hopes of avoiding massive losses.<blockquote>超过公司实际已发行股票数量的空头利息是通过一种称为裸卖空的做法实现的，这种做法允许对尚未实际借入的股票进行押注。WallStreetBets会员最终对挤压的看法是正确的，游戏驿站多头取得了令人难以置信的收益，因为卖空者被迫在高位回购该股，希望避免巨大损失。</blockquote>A combination of continued short-squeeze momentum and indications that the company would be aggressively pursuing its pivot to online retail have added new chapters to the story of GameStop's incredible rally, and it currently stands as one of the best-performing stocks of the year. Cohen has been appointed chairman of a new committee to accelerate the business's online retail push, a bounce for the stock has once again attracted new short interest, and theGameStopsaga rages on.<blockquote>持续的轧空势头以及该公司将积极转向在线零售的迹象相结合，为游戏驿站令人难以置信的反弹故事增添了新篇章，目前该公司是今年表现最好的股票之一。科恩被任命为一个新委员会的主席，以加速该公司的在线零售业务，该股的反弹再次吸引了新的空头兴趣，GameStop传奇仍在继续。</blockquote>What's the shelf life of a \"meme stock?\"<blockquote>“模因股票”的保质期是多久？</blockquote>A phenomenal surge in retail trading activity has helped bring about the rise of \"meme stocks\" -- a name given to equities that see huge momentum after gaining favor in online discussion communities. Sometimes these stocks wind up seeing big gains just by virtue of being the fad, or meme, of the moment, but many investors are now trading these companies solely on volatility and with no real concern for fundamentals.<blockquote>零售交易活动的惊人激增帮助带来了“模因股票”的崛起——这是一个在在线讨论社区中获得青睐后势头强劲的股票的名称。有时，这些股票最终仅仅凭借当下的时尚或迷因而获得大幅上涨，但许多投资者现在仅根据波动性来交易这些公司，而不真正关心基本面。</blockquote>GameStop is the reigning king of the meme stocks, and it could see more big gains with additional squeeze momentum. But what about the actual business and the online retail pivot?<blockquote>游戏驿站是模因股票的卫冕之王，随着额外的挤压势头，它可能会出现更大的涨幅。但是实际业务和在线零售支点呢？</blockquote>GameStop has struggled for years as video game software sales have moved to digital channels, and the company has a lengthy history of failed growth bets under its belt.<blockquote>随着视频游戏软件销售转向数字渠道，游戏驿站多年来一直在苦苦挣扎，而且该公司长期以来一直在增长押注失败。</blockquote>Trying to move into smartphone and mobile service retail was a bust, as was its push into selling other non-gaming tech hardware. Hinging a big part of its growth story on geek culture merchandise (think T-shirts andFunko's character figurines) didn't really pan out either. Efforts to move into video game software development and subscription service packages were duds, and recent experiments with turning some of its stores into esports social hubs seem unlikely to become a real growth driver.<blockquote>试图进军智能手机和移动服务零售领域的努力失败了，就像它进军其他非游戏技术硬件的努力一样。其增长故事的很大一部分取决于极客文化商品（想想T恤和丰科的人物雕像）也没有真正成功。进军视频游戏软件开发和订阅服务包的努力是徒劳的，最近将其一些商店转变为电子竞技社交中心的实验似乎不太可能成为真正的增长动力。</blockquote>Previous efforts to boost the company's online retail footprint were also somewhat underwhelming. It's possible that the company is finally ready to emerge as a leaner, more effective e-commerce business, and the company's appointment of Cohen to steer the pivot is encouraging. However, GameStop will have to manage the ongoing decline of its brick-and-mortar business and incur substantial expenses as its moves away from that segment and ramps up its e-commerce initiatives.<blockquote>此前扩大该公司在线零售足迹的努力也有些乏善可陈。该公司可能最终准备好成为一家更精简、更有效的电子商务企业，该公司任命科恩来指导这一转变令人鼓舞。然而，游戏驿站将不得不应对其实体业务的持续下滑，并随着其退出该细分市场并加大电子商务举措而产生大量费用。</blockquote>As the stock emerges from short-squeeze and meme-stock mania, the business is going to have to deliver an incredible series of wins in order to justify its current market capitalization of roughly $14 billion. The odds aren't in GameStop's favor, but it's shaping up to be an incredible story either way.<blockquote>随着该股摆脱空头挤压和模因股票狂热，该公司将必须取得一系列令人难以置信的胜利，才能证明其目前约140亿美元的市值是合理的。胜算对游戏驿站不利，但不管怎样，这都将是一个令人难以置信的故事。</blockquote>","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>Why Is Everyone (Still) Talking About GameStop Stock?<blockquote>为什么每个人（仍然）都在谈论游戏驿站股票？</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\">\nWhy Is Everyone (Still) Talking About GameStop Stock?<blockquote>为什么每个人（仍然）都在谈论游戏驿站股票？</blockquote>\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\nMotley Fool2021-03-19 19:18\n\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\nIt's a GameStop world. We're just living in it.GameStop(NYSE:GME)has to be 2021's most interesting stock. The video game retailer started to pick up momentum ahead of the launch of new game consoles fromSonyandMicrosoftlast year, and over the past two months, short-squeeze mania and other big developments have led to incredible swings for the the company's share price.<blockquote>这是一个游戏驿站的世界。我们只是生活在其中。游戏驿站（纽约证券交易所股票代码：GME）一定是2021年最有趣的股票。在推出新游戏机之前，这家视频游戏零售商开始加快发展势头索尼和微软去年和过去两个月，轧空狂热和其他重大事态发展导致该公司股价出现令人难以置信的波动。</blockquote>GameStop's stock climbed as high as $483 per share during the height of short-squeeze mania. While the stock briefly returned to trading in the range of $50 per share, it's bounced back once again and traded at $201.75 at Thursday's close. That price represents a 971% increase year to date and a 4,715% increase from the $4.19 share price the stock had one year ago.<blockquote>在轧空狂热最严重的时候，游戏驿站的股价一度攀升至每股483美元。虽然该股短暂回到每股50美元的区间交易，但再次反弹，周四收盘时交易价格为201.75美元。该价格今年迄今上涨了971%，较一年前4.19美元的股价上涨了4,715%。</blockquote>Why is GameStop surging, and what comes next?<blockquote>游戏驿站为何风起云涌，接下来会发生什么？</blockquote>How did we get here?<blockquote>我们是怎么到这里的？</blockquote>The start of GameStop's improbable, supercharged rally can be traced back to the introduction of Sony's PlayStation 5 console and Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Series S platforms in 2020. New console launches have historically led to a cyclical upcycle for GameStop's business and stock performance.<blockquote>游戏驿站不可思议的增压拉力赛的开始可以追溯到2020年Sony PlayStation 5游戏机以及微软Xbox Series X和Series S平台的推出。从历史上看，新游戏机的推出会导致游戏驿站业务和股票表现的周期性上升周期。</blockquote>Pricing momentum created by the new hardware launches was further intensified by news that activist investor andChewyco-founder Ryan Cohen was amassing a large stake in the company and would advocate for pushing the business toward an e-commerce focus.<blockquote>激进投资者和耐嚼联合创始人瑞安·科恩(Ryan Cohen)持有该公司的大量股份，并主张将业务推向电子商务重点。</blockquote>From there, Reddit's WallStreetBets group began championing the stock as a potential target for a hugeshort squeeze. Social media users noticed that enormous short interest had amassed against GameStop -- and that a massive run for the stock could potentially be generated through a bit of favorable news and coordinated buying.<blockquote>从那时起，Reddit的WallStreetBets小组开始支持该股作为大规模轧空的潜在目标。社交媒体用户注意到，针对游戏驿站的巨大空头兴趣已经积累，并且通过一些有利消息和协调购买，该股可能会出现大规模上涨。</blockquote>Prior to the first major short squeeze, GameStop had about 50 million shares of its stock outstanding. At the same time, roughly 70 million shares of the company's stock had been sold short -- meaning that investors had placed bets against more shares of the company's stock than actually existed.<blockquote>在第一次重大轧空之前，游戏驿站拥有约5000万股已发行股票。与此同时，大约7000万股该公司股票被卖空，这意味着投资者对该公司股票的押注多于实际存在的股票。</blockquote>Short interest exceeding the company's actual outstanding share count was made possible through a practice callednaked short selling, which allows bets to be placed against shares that haven't actually been borrowed. WallStreetBets members wound up being right about the squeeze, and GameStop bulls notched incredible gains as short-sellers were forced to buy back the stock at elevated levels in hopes of avoiding massive losses.<blockquote>超过公司实际已发行股票数量的空头利息是通过一种称为裸卖空的做法实现的，这种做法允许对尚未实际借入的股票进行押注。WallStreetBets会员最终对挤压的看法是正确的，游戏驿站多头取得了令人难以置信的收益，因为卖空者被迫在高位回购该股，希望避免巨大损失。</blockquote>A combination of continued short-squeeze momentum and indications that the company would be aggressively pursuing its pivot to online retail have added new chapters to the story of GameStop's incredible rally, and it currently stands as one of the best-performing stocks of the year. Cohen has been appointed chairman of a new committee to accelerate the business's online retail push, a bounce for the stock has once again attracted new short interest, and theGameStopsaga rages on.<blockquote>持续的轧空势头以及该公司将积极转向在线零售的迹象相结合，为游戏驿站令人难以置信的反弹故事增添了新篇章，目前该公司是今年表现最好的股票之一。科恩被任命为一个新委员会的主席，以加速该公司的在线零售业务，该股的反弹再次吸引了新的空头兴趣，GameStop传奇仍在继续。</blockquote>What's the shelf life of a \"meme stock?\"<blockquote>“模因股票”的保质期是多久？</blockquote>A phenomenal surge in retail trading activity has helped bring about the rise of \"meme stocks\" -- a name given to equities that see huge momentum after gaining favor in online discussion communities. Sometimes these stocks wind up seeing big gains just by virtue of being the fad, or meme, of the moment, but many investors are now trading these companies solely on volatility and with no real concern for fundamentals.<blockquote>零售交易活动的惊人激增帮助带来了“模因股票”的崛起——这是一个在在线讨论社区中获得青睐后势头强劲的股票的名称。有时，这些股票最终仅仅凭借当下的时尚或迷因而获得大幅上涨，但许多投资者现在仅根据波动性来交易这些公司，而不真正关心基本面。</blockquote>GameStop is the reigning king of the meme stocks, and it could see more big gains with additional squeeze momentum. But what about the actual business and the online retail pivot?<blockquote>游戏驿站是模因股票的卫冕之王，随着额外的挤压势头，它可能会出现更大的涨幅。但是实际业务和在线零售支点呢？</blockquote>GameStop has struggled for years as video game software sales have moved to digital channels, and the company has a lengthy history of failed growth bets under its belt.<blockquote>随着视频游戏软件销售转向数字渠道，游戏驿站多年来一直在苦苦挣扎，而且该公司长期以来一直在增长押注失败。</blockquote>Trying to move into smartphone and mobile service retail was a bust, as was its push into selling other non-gaming tech hardware. Hinging a big part of its growth story on geek culture merchandise (think T-shirts andFunko's character figurines) didn't really pan out either. Efforts to move into video game software development and subscription service packages were duds, and recent experiments with turning some of its stores into esports social hubs seem unlikely to become a real growth driver.<blockquote>试图进军智能手机和移动服务零售领域的努力失败了，就像它进军其他非游戏技术硬件的努力一样。其增长故事的很大一部分取决于极客文化商品（想想T恤和丰科的人物雕像）也没有真正成功。进军视频游戏软件开发和订阅服务包的努力是徒劳的，最近将其一些商店转变为电子竞技社交中心的实验似乎不太可能成为真正的增长动力。</blockquote>Previous efforts to boost the company's online retail footprint were also somewhat underwhelming. It's possible that the company is finally ready to emerge as a leaner, more effective e-commerce business, and the company's appointment of Cohen to steer the pivot is encouraging. However, GameStop will have to manage the ongoing decline of its brick-and-mortar business and incur substantial expenses as its moves away from that segment and ramps up its e-commerce initiatives.<blockquote>此前扩大该公司在线零售足迹的努力也有些乏善可陈。该公司可能最终准备好成为一家更精简、更有效的电子商务企业，该公司任命科恩来指导这一转变令人鼓舞。然而，游戏驿站将不得不应对其实体业务的持续下滑，并随着其退出该细分市场并加大电子商务举措而产生大量费用。</blockquote>As the stock emerges from short-squeeze and meme-stock mania, the business is going to have to deliver an incredible series of wins in order to justify its current market capitalization of roughly $14 billion. The odds aren't in GameStop's favor, but it's shaping up to be an incredible story either way.<blockquote>随着该股摆脱空头挤压和模因股票狂热，该公司将必须取得一系列令人难以置信的胜利，才能证明其目前约140亿美元的市值是合理的。胜算对游戏驿站不利，但不管怎样，这都将是一个令人难以置信的故事。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/03/19/why-is-everyone-still-talking-about-gamestop-stock/\">Motley Fool</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\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.fool.com/investing/2021/03/19/why-is-everyone-still-talking-about-gamestop-stock/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1143733672","content_text":"It's a GameStop world. We're just living in it.GameStop(NYSE:GME)has to be 2021's most interesting stock. The video game retailer started to pick up momentum ahead of the launch of new game consoles fromSonyandMicrosoftlast year, and over the past two months, short-squeeze mania and other big developments have led to incredible swings for the the company's share price.GameStop's stock climbed as high as $483 per share during the height of short-squeeze mania. While the stock briefly returned to trading in the range of $50 per share, it's bounced back once again and traded at $201.75 at Thursday's close. That price represents a 971% increase year to date and a 4,715% increase from the $4.19 share price the stock had one year ago.Why is GameStop surging, and what comes next?How did we get here?The start of GameStop's improbable, supercharged rally can be traced back to the introduction of Sony's PlayStation 5 console and Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Series S platforms in 2020. New console launches have historically led to a cyclical upcycle for GameStop's business and stock performance.Pricing momentum created by the new hardware launches was further intensified by news that activist investor andChewyco-founder Ryan Cohen was amassing a large stake in the company and would advocate for pushing the business toward an e-commerce focus.From there, Reddit's WallStreetBets group began championing the stock as a potential target for a hugeshort squeeze. Social media users noticed that enormous short interest had amassed against GameStop -- and that a massive run for the stock could potentially be generated through a bit of favorable news and coordinated buying.Prior to the first major short squeeze, GameStop had about 50 million shares of its stock outstanding. At the same time, roughly 70 million shares of the company's stock had been sold short -- meaning that investors had placed bets against more shares of the company's stock than actually existed.Short interest exceeding the company's actual outstanding share count was made possible through a practice callednaked short selling, which allows bets to be placed against shares that haven't actually been borrowed. WallStreetBets members wound up being right about the squeeze, and GameStop bulls notched incredible gains as short-sellers were forced to buy back the stock at elevated levels in hopes of avoiding massive losses.A combination of continued short-squeeze momentum and indications that the company would be aggressively pursuing its pivot to online retail have added new chapters to the story of GameStop's incredible rally, and it currently stands as one of the best-performing stocks of the year. Cohen has been appointed chairman of a new committee to accelerate the business's online retail push, a bounce for the stock has once again attracted new short interest, and theGameStopsaga rages on.What's the shelf life of a \"meme stock?\"A phenomenal surge in retail trading activity has helped bring about the rise of \"meme stocks\" -- a name given to equities that see huge momentum after gaining favor in online discussion communities. Sometimes these stocks wind up seeing big gains just by virtue of being the fad, or meme, of the moment, but many investors are now trading these companies solely on volatility and with no real concern for fundamentals.GameStop is the reigning king of the meme stocks, and it could see more big gains with additional squeeze momentum. But what about the actual business and the online retail pivot?GameStop has struggled for years as video game software sales have moved to digital channels, and the company has a lengthy history of failed growth bets under its belt.Trying to move into smartphone and mobile service retail was a bust, as was its push into selling other non-gaming tech hardware. Hinging a big part of its growth story on geek culture merchandise (think T-shirts andFunko's character figurines) didn't really pan out either. Efforts to move into video game software development and subscription service packages were duds, and recent experiments with turning some of its stores into esports social hubs seem unlikely to become a real growth driver.Previous efforts to boost the company's online retail footprint were also somewhat underwhelming. It's possible that the company is finally ready to emerge as a leaner, more effective e-commerce business, and the company's appointment of Cohen to steer the pivot is encouraging. However, GameStop will have to manage the ongoing decline of its brick-and-mortar business and incur substantial expenses as its moves away from that segment and ramps up its e-commerce initiatives.As the stock emerges from short-squeeze and meme-stock mania, the business is going to have to deliver an incredible series of wins in order to justify its current market capitalization of roughly $14 billion. The odds aren't in GameStop's favor, but it's shaping up to be an incredible story either way.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"GME":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1447,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"EN","currentLanguage":"EN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":12,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ORIG"},"commentList":[],"hasMoreComment":false,"orderType":2}