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"Held at" DTC versus Computershare
As of March 20, 2024 there were 305,873,200 shares of GameStop's Class A common stock (GME) outstanding.
"Of those outstanding shares, approximately 230.6 million were held by Cede & Co on behalf of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (or approximately 75% of our outstanding shares) and approximately 75.3 million shares of our Class A common stock were held by registered holders with our transfer agent (or approximately 25% of our outstanding shares)."
As of May 24, 2024, GameStop completed an at the market equity offering, and sold 45,000,000 shares, increasing the total amount of shares outstanding to approximately 351,000,000.
DRS vs DSPP
Information about DRS versus DSPP counts held at Computershare are not reported publicly.
This information is available, however, on the GameStop stockholder list which can be viewed in person at GameStop headquarters.
The latest data we have was from 2023 when GME shareholders viewed the stockholder list and obtained some data including DRS vs DSPP counts. Source: https://www.drsgme.org/2023-stock-list-viewing
The DRS vs DSPP numbers in the graphic have been rounded for simplicity based off the data from that 2023 source.
Of shares held by Computershare: 53 million DRS, 22 million DSPP.
Also, it's pretty funny to me how some financial incumbents find this news to be "alarming". It's alarming to them, it scares them. It scares them because they already decided that GameStop is bad and Ryan Cohen is bad, but now Ryan Cohen has even more concentrated control to support his ability to execute his strategy.
I've now seen on multiple occasions, the sort of FUDdy counter narrative: now Ryan Cohen has the ability to buy assets that aren't GME. If he had any faith in his company, he would simply use that money to do a GME share buyback.
What a giveaway.
These opponents want RC to do a GME share buy back. Almost as if, this would be a strategically poor move for GameStop at this time but a good move for GameStop's opponents. Discussed here is why, as of this time, it would not be a good decision to do a share buyback. The only scenario in which that would actually be a good idea would be if the price of GME tanked very low. Better to hold on to that buyback money as an insurance policy, just in case the share price ever does get tanked. In that case, the waiting cash for the buyback covers the problem.
In the mean time, at current GME prices, there are probably other undervalued opportunities that RC has his sights on, and this is scary to anyone that opposes GameStop's success.