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GameStop seesaws on Q4 results

The video game and collectibles retailer just reported Q4 results.

GameStop reported its fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday, and the video game retailer seesawed in after-hours trading.

For its fiscal Q4 2026, GameStop reported:

  • Net sales of $1.1 billion, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.32 billion and down about 14% from the same period a year prior.

  • Adjusted net income of $291.4 million, compared to the consensus estimate of $169 million. The figure excludes impairment, loss on digital assets and related receivables, and other items.

(Note: Once again, “consensus estimate” in this case means “Baird analyst Colin Sebastian’s estimate.” He’s the only one who submitted projections to Bloomberg.)

The fourth quarter, which encompasses the winter holiday season, is typically the bumper quarter for GameStop. The company’s collectibles business brought in $365 million in sales, making up a third of the company’s total sales, as “Pokémon” cards climb in value. In the fourth quarter of last year, GME’s collectibles sales accounted for 21% of total sales.

Most of the recent news swirling around the company, however, includes two main characters: Michael Burry and Ryan Cohen.

In January, the former (of “The Big Short” fame) revealed that he was long GameStop, spurring the most retail buying of the shares since the company’s pivot to bitcoin in Q1 2025.

Cohen, the CEO of GameStop, also publicly revealed he’s in the market for a “genius or totally, totally foolish” major acquisition in the consumer or retail industry, with a target that’s much bigger than GME.

This M&A hunt followed Cohen agreeing to a compensation package that would completely tie his pay to the stock performance and GameStop’s operational performance, and also buying 1 million shares of company stock over the course of two days.

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Akamai climbs to highest level since 2000 after reportedly securing Anthropic as a customer

Akamai’s billion-dollar AI infrastructure customer is Anthropic, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The cloud services company extended gains to trade up over 25% following the news.

On Thursday, the company announced a seven-year, $1.8 billion commitment from a “leading frontier model provider.”

Anthropic has been on a mad scramble to boost compute capacity after facing widespread complaints about Claude usage limits and seeing OpenAI position its accumulation of computing power as a competitive advantage.

In a little over a month, Anthropic has struck or expanded deals with CoreWeave, Amazon, Google, Broadcom, as well as xAI (through SpaceX).

As part of that xAI pact, Anthropic announced that it would be increasing usage limits for paying customers.

Anthropic has been on a mad scramble to boost compute capacity after facing widespread complaints about Claude usage limits and seeing OpenAI position its accumulation of computing power as a competitive advantage.

In a little over a month, Anthropic has struck or expanded deals with CoreWeave, Amazon, Google, Broadcom, as well as xAI (through SpaceX).

As part of that xAI pact, Anthropic announced that it would be increasing usage limits for paying customers.

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NuScale Power falls on disappointing drop in Q1 sales

NuScale shares are dropping in the early trading session after it released Q1 earnings yesterday after the bell that are failing to rejuvenate any excitement in the once high-flying, early-stage nuclear energy company.

The company announced Q1 revenue of just $560,000, well below the $10.5 million estimate, with sales down materially year over year thanks to old licensing and design deals that have since been completed.

The lack of financial progress has made NuScale Power more of a momentum-driven way to play the intersection of clean energy and AI infrastructure, particularly as hyperscalers and data center operators search for long-term power sources.

“The demand for reliable, carbon-free power has never been greater, and NuScale is the only SMR technology provider with a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved design, an established supply chain and NPM components currently in production for commercial use to meet this essential need,” said John Hopkins, NuScale president and CEO. “We are building the infrastructure that this pivotal moment requires.”

Analysts at Goldman Sachs trimmed their price target to $9 from $10 in the wake of this report.

The company ended this quarter with cash, cash equivalents, and short- and long-term investments of $1.0 billion. The stock has dropped more than 25% year to date.

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Nintendo falls, will hike Switch 2 price amid memory crunch

Gaming giant Nintendo reported the results for its fourth quarter, which ended in March, on Friday morning. Its US-traded ADR fell nearly 4% in premarket trading.

Most notably, Nintendo announced it will raise the price of its Switch 2 console in the US by $50 to $499.99 in September. Investors have been waiting for Nintendo to join its rivals Sony and Microsoft in boosting the price of its flagship console, but the company had thus far been unwilling to do so this early in the Switch 2’s life cycle.

Nintendo shares have fallen about 45% over the past 12 months, as the company has been hit by tariffs and costs have increased due to AI’s memory demand and higher global shipping rates amid the war in Iran.

For its fiscal 2026, Nintendo reported:

  • 2.313 trillion yen ($14.8 billion) in total revenue, compared to estimates of 2.31 trillion yen ($14.78 billion) from Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet.

  • 19.86 million Switch 2 sales, compared to its 19 million forecast.

For the fiscal year ahead (which will end in March 2027), Nintendo forecast 16.5 million Switch 2 sales. The company is guiding for 2.050 trillion yen ($13.1 billion) in sales for the full year, compared to Wall Street estimates of 2.5 trillion yen ($16.1 billion).

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