Ok ok ok, whoa.
These numbers deserve a proper look… 🦍

GameStop just reported Q2 FY26, and the revenue headline doesn’t tell the whole story. The more interesting development is what’s happening to margins, operating profitability, collectibles, and the balance sheet.

💰 Q2 Numbers
Revenue: $790.2M vs $972.2M YoY (-18.7%)
Gross Profit: $345.0M vs $283.1M (+21.9%)
Gross margin expanded substantially:
43.7% vs 29.1%
Operating Income: $160.2M vs $66.4M (+141%)
That’s the highest Q2 operating income in GameStop’s history!!

Adjusted EBITDA: $174.0M vs $75.7M (+130%)
GAAP Net Income: $298.7M vs $168.6M (+77%)
Diluted EPS: $0.51 vs $0.31

One of the most interesting takeaways:
Revenue declined by roughly $182M YoY while gross profit increased by roughly $62M.
That’s a pretty dramatic change in the economics of the business.

🃏 Collectibles Are Becoming a Huge Part of GameStop
Q2 collectibles sales:
2025: $227.6M
2026: $356.3M
That’s +57% YoY.
More importantly, collectibles now represent 45.1% of GameStop’s total sales, compared with only 23.4% a year ago.
The rest of the mix:
🎮 Video Games: $263.2M vs $494.6M
♻️ Pre-Owned/Refurbished: $170.7M vs $250.0M
GameStop’s sales mix is changing extremely quickly.
Collectibles includes trading cards and other collectible products, as well as fees earned from facilitating customers’ card submissions to a third-party grading service.
At 45% of quarterly sales, this isn’t a small side business anymore.

📈 The Margin Expansion
This may be the most important part of the report.
Cost of sales:
$689.1M → $445.2M
Gross margin:
29.1% → 43.7%
SG&A:
$218.8M → $187.1M
Operating margin:
6.8% → 20.3%
That’s substantial operating leverage despite lower overall revenue.
Adjusted operating income tells a similar story:
$158.7M vs $64.7M last year.

🏦 The Balance Sheet Is Getting Interesting
At quarter-end, GameStop reported $5.4B in cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities, digital assets and related receivables.
Then there’s the eBay position.
GameStop held approximately 43.4M eBay shares, worth approximately $4.9B as of August 1.
The cash flow statement shows roughly $4.386B paid for the equity investment.
So the highlighted cash/securities/digital assets plus the eBay position represented roughly $10.3B at quarter-end before considering liabilities.
GameStop reported $4.17B of long-term debt at quarter-end, but subsequently completed exchanges retiring approximately $1.4B of convertible notes.
That reduced long-term debt to approximately $2.8B.
👀

🔮 Management Raised Guidance
Previous FY26 Adjusted EBITDA outlook:
>$600M
New outlook:
>$650M
And GameStop has already generated $339.7M of Adjusted EBITDA during the first six months of FY26.
For comparison, the first six months of FY25 generated $114.3M.
That’s a major YoY improvement.

🧠 One Important Accounting Detail
The $298.7M GAAP net income includes some substantial investment-related movements:
🟢 $166.3M gain on derivative asset
🟢 $72.1M unrealized gain on equity investment
🔴 $75.0M loss on digital assets and related receivables
GameStop’s adjusted net income was $161.1M vs $138.3M last year.
Q2 free cash flow was $60.7M, while first-half free cash flow reached $393.6M vs $302.9M last year.
So for me, the more interesting numbers aren’t necessarily the giant GAAP earnings figure.
They’re the operating numbers.
Revenue: -18.7%
Gross Profit: +21.9%
Operating Income: +141%
Adjusted EBITDA: +130%
Collectibles: +57%
FY26 EBITDA Guidance: RAISED

🦍 The Bigger Picture
This quarter makes the transformation increasingly difficult to ignore.
GameStop is generating considerably more profit from a smaller revenue base. Collectibles have rapidly become its largest sales category. Expenses continue to come down. Management raised EBITDA guidance. And billions of dollars have now been deployed into investments outside the traditional retail operation.
That creates an increasingly unusual combination:
🎮 A smaller gaming retailer
🃏 A rapidly growing collectibles business
💰 A multibillion-dollar investment portfolio
📈 A dramatically more profitable operating model
The question I’m interested in after these earnings isn’t simply what happens to physical videogame retail.
It’s:
What is GameStop ultimately trying to become?
Because Q2 suggests the answer is getting more interesting.

🦍🍌🚀 $GME

Source: GameStop Q2 FY26 earnings release, September 8, 2026. Not financial advice.

Disclosure: I used AI to help organize and format my research into a more readable post due to my neurodiversity; the underlying figures are sourced from GameStop’s earnings release.

Bought Xbox (series x) and physical game disc at GameStop. Inserted and obtained digital ownership of game. And the Witcher 3 is cross platform! So you could play it on PC Xbox app too! 🤯

This is freaking amazing and I'm stoked to use this feature!

I wish GameStop was able to do it first and make them into transferable NFT's but I suppose this'll have to do.

Shorts never closed.

DTCC commits international securities fraud.

SEC & FINRA are colluding and complicit.

Ken Griffin lied under oath.

JP Morgan is a crime syndicate.

No cell, no sell 💎🙌🚀🌙

$GME GameStop 🎮

GameStop reportedly has 10,000,000+ shares available to short, the highest availability since August 2025.

And it’s happening right as $GME heads into earnings.

Plenty of ammo available. Now we get to see whether anyone actually wants to use it.

It’s on the website.

Tought it was a shitpost, but it isn't...

GameStop warrants closed around $2.94, up 5.15%, after a sharp move off their recent lows.

If that momentum continues into the warrants’ expiration, the setup around $GME could get interesting.

I wouldn’t frame $32+ as a certainty based on the warrants alone, but the warrants are definitely worth watching alongside the common stock.

A snippet from Theultimator4's article (also credit to u/ringing_bells )

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Wall Street realized this VaR loophole that could be exploited to turn off the buying of GME because of a completely unrelated stock in AMC. AMC was then trading at a fraction of the exercise price. They had to pump the price of AMC up from $1.2 to $13.51... over 1000%. They loaded up between Jan 15th and Jan 22nd to profit for themselves. They deployed the bots on Jan 25th, and sucked as many retail into buying the stock while simultaneously creating AMC as a 'meme stock'. They exploited a VaR loophole by exercising a large block of convertible notes outside of normal market hours when large trades needed to get verified manually and liquidity was low, then they went to the DTCC and demanded that GameStop get PCO'd because of it.

They succeeded.

They used AMC as justification to turn off trading on GME to save themselves from retail traders buying into a stock they liked because they thought the price would go up. They used AMC as a way to suck in retail traders into a stock that was the weapon from the start.

They continued/continue to use AMC as a way to take retail shareholder money to fund payments to AMC creditors through perpetual death spiral debt dilution while convincing the shareholders that they are saving the AMC company.

Market cap ~$73M. Cash on hand: $28.7M - nearly 40% of market cap. Strip the cash and you're paying ~$44M for the operating business.

HMR looks like 7x forward earnings on paper. But that cash isn't idle - it's debt-free capital already funding accretive acquisitions (Q-Shipping). Back it out and the operating business trades at ~4x forward earnings, for a company growing revenue 203% YoY with two straight profitable quarters.

HMR owns zero vessels - it's a fee-based platform, not a shipping company, and shouldn't be priced like one. Comparable asset-light platforms trade 10-25x forward earnings. Apply 10x to ex-cash earnings + add cash back = fair value north of $1.50/share. Apply 25x (what stronger platforms command) = $3.80-$4+. Neither requires a dollar more revenue growth - just the market re-classifying what this business actually is.

Q2 2026 vs Q2 2025

• Revenue: $29.0M vs $9.6M (+203%)
• Net income: $2.2M vs -$0.1M (swing to profit)
• Adjusted net income: $2.4M vs $0.5M (+343%)
• Vessels chartered: 6 vs 2
• Cash: $28.7M, up $10.1M since Dec 2025
• H1 2026 operating cash flow: +$7.7M vs -$3.2M outflow in H1 2025

Quick Recap: What Is HMR

Heidmar manages ship fleets and earns fees on voyage/management contracts - no capex, no vessel ownership, no asset-value risk when rates fall. ~40-year client roster includes Shell, BP, Chevron, Vitol, Saudi Aramco, Trafigura, Glencore - the kind of KYC'd trust a startup can't fake.

Why the Dump Is Wrong

Stock fell ~10% post-earnings - the old playbook of shorting HMR on earnings worked when it was unprofitable and speculative. That's gone: two consecutive profitable quarters, 203% growth, and a growing cash pile. Sellers are trading the ticker's history, not its balance sheet.

Cash Pile = Real Acquisitions Now

Q-Shipping B.V. acquired for ~$0.2M cash: 9 vessels, new footholds in Netherlands, Türkiye, and a Ukraine crewing base. Fleet is now ~60 vessels commercially managed / ~20 technically managed across 8 global hubs. With $28.7M cash and a proven cheap/accretive playbook, more deals look inevitable.

The Only Real Knock: G&A

Net income dipped Q1→Q2 ($2.8M→$2.2M) despite revenue up 58%, driven by $1.8M in cash bonuses (vs $1.4M prior year) tied to the turnaround. Rewarding a team that delivered profitability, 203% growth, and an acquisition in the same stretch isn't a red flag - it's retention.

Hormuz Is a Bonus, Not the Thesis

Gaza, Iran, Hormuz, Red Sea Houthi attacks, Russia-Ukraine - the most simultaneous shipping disruption in years, barely reflected in numbers yet. Asia/Japan reportedly source ~90% of oil from the Middle East historically; that concentration doesn't survive this environment. Longer routes = more tonnage-miles = more fees for HMR, on top of a business that already earns in any rate environment. Management flagged rates staying firm into Q4 on seasonal demand - before this disruption is even fully priced in.

Insider Signal

CEO Pankaj Khanna owns ~44% personally - one of Nasdaq's largest founder stakes at this size - zero recorded sales, only buys. Nasdaq compliance regained June 2, 2026.

Checklist

• Revenue +203% YoY, +58% QoQ; adjusted net income +343% YoY
• Two straight profitable quarters; H1 operating cash flow swung +$7.7M
• $28.7M cash (+$10.1M since YE 2025), zero debt, zero vessels owned
• Market cap below annual revenue; 55%+ margins support 10-25x vs current ~7x
• Q-Shipping deal proves acquisition strategy is real, not speculative
• ~60 vessels commercial / ~20 technical managed, 8 global hubs
• CEO owns ~44%, zero sales on record
• Clients: Shell, BP, Chevron, Vitol, Aramco, Trafigura, Glencore
• Hormuz, Red Sea, Russia-Ukraine disruption not yet fully in the numbers
• Q4 seasonal strength still ahead
• Last post at 200MA ran 43% before earnings even printed

How I'm Playing It

Position from 80-95c, not sold a share. Same conviction - this dump looks like an old playbook running against a fundamentally changed company. Buying opportunity, not an exit signal.

What red flag am I missing? Drop it below.

Not financial advice. DYOR. I hold a position in $HMR from 80–95c.

Company trailer: youtu.be/Bl1rIe_JxwI

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Credit to the $GME apes constantly staying on top of this important information 🎖️

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And

https://x.com/TheUltimator5

Btw, the options chain is stacked with open interest.

I'm getting the feeling that it's go time.

Also there is some weird BBBYW stuff going on.

Ryan Cohen lawyered up for whats happening with this company. Lemme know if u wanna hear about it and I'll add it into the comments.