Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged 1,500% in nine months

ARS Technica

Nine months ago, GameStop stock bottomed out at $2.80 a share, a reflection of the myriad problems facing the retailer specifically and brick-and-mortar game retail as a whole. As of Tuesday morning, though, that stock price is hovering around $40 a share (peaking at $44.74 as of this writing), with the vast majority of those gains coming in the last couple of weeks.

“[Cohen] seems to have a vision of what the company should be in the future,” Telsey Advisory Group analyst Joseph Feldman told Ars. “It’s more experiential, it makes sense given the changes in the market, so maybe it’ll help speed that along. It’s certainly something worth watching.”

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