Take-Two beats revenue estimates at $1.53B, but earnings miss widens loss
What's the deal? Take-Two Interactive SoftwareDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → reported $1.53 billion in revenue for the quarter ended August 7, beating analyst estimates of $1.36 billion. But the games publisher posted a loss of $0.18 per share, missing the $0.33 consensus by $0.51.
What does it mean? Revenue slipped 2.1% year over year, and the loss deepened from $0.07 per share in the same quarter last year. Take-Two carries a negative net margin of 4.79% against a positive 12.25% return on equity.
What's the endgame? The publisher behind franchises including Grand Theft Auto guided to $0.90–$1.00 EPS for Q2 2027 and $5.75–$6.00 for the full year. Analysts expect roughly 5.3 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Who's buying? Gables Capital Management opened a new position in the second quarter, buying 12,467 shares worth about $3.1 million. The stake is Gables' 25th largest holding at 1.1% of its portfolio.
Zoom out: Larger institutions have moved too. BlackRock opened a new position worth roughly $4.56 billion in the second quarter, while VanguardDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → lifted its stake 0.8% to 21.9 million shares. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 95.46% of the stock.
What could go wrong? Insiders have been selling. President Karl Slatoff sold 208,969 shares on June 1 at an average $227.34 — a $47.5 million transaction that cut his holding by 17.2% — under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan.
The signal: Take-Two shares opened at $242.40, near the upper end of a 12-month range of $187.63 to $265.94, giving it a $45.32 billion market cap. Strong institutional backing and a widening loss underscore that investors are betting on the pipeline rather than current results.
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