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GameStop shares plummet nearly 39%

Specialty retailer trading at lowest price since 2003 after reporting sinking sales and halting shareholder dividends

GameStop shares have taken a beating after the company reported its first fiscal quarter results yesterday. As of this writing, the company is trading at $4.78, down nearly 39% in mid-day trading.

GameStop's results showed revenue down 13.3%, and while it still posted a net profit, it was considerably less than in the year prior. While the revenue was lower than analyst expectations, the company left its full-year guidance unchanged.

New hardware sales saw a particularly sharp decline, down 35% despite an increase in Nintendo Switch units sales. The only part of its business to show significant growth of any sort was collectibles, which were up 10.5% year-over-year.

Beyond the base numbers, GameStop also announced that it was eliminating its practice of distributing quarterly dividends to shareholders as a way to save about $157 million in cash.

This is the lowest mark GameStop shares have sold at since 2003, before it had spun off from Barnes & Noble and acquired its chief rival, Electronics Boutique.

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Brendan Sinclair: Brendan joined GamesIndustry.biz in 2012. Based in Toronto, Ontario, he was previously senior news editor at GameSpot.
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