{"id":3699,"date":"2026-05-04T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/04\/gamestops-bold-56b-ebay-bid-sends-shares-soaring-fueled-by-stock-issuance-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:14:23","slug":"gamestops-bold-56b-ebay-bid-sends-shares-soaring-fueled-by-stock-issuance-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/04\/gamestops-bold-56b-ebay-bid-sends-shares-soaring-fueled-by-stock-issuance-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"GameStop&#8217;s Bold $56B eBay Bid Sends Shares Soaring, Fueled by Stock Issuance Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GameStop has made an unsolicited $56 billion offer to acquire eBay, a bid consisting of half cash and half stock. CEO Ryan Cohen believes he can significantly improve eBay&#8217;s profitability through cost cuts and leveraging GameStop&#8217;s retail infrastructure. The market reaction has been cautious, with investors questioning the feasibility of the deal given GameStop&#8217;s smaller market capitalization.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/02\/19\/ebay-soars-as-ryan-cohen-says-gamestop-could-issue-stock-to-pay-for-takeover-of-much-bigger-retailer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GameStop has made an unsolicited $56 billion offer to acquire eBay, a bid consisting of half cash and half stock. CEO Ryan Cohen believes he can significantly improve eBay&#8217;s profitability through cost cuts and leveraging GameStop&#8217;s retail infrastructure. The market reaction has been cautious, with investors questioning the feasibility of the deal given GameStop&#8217;s smaller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108301450-17778934171777893414-45698958890-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1777893416&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-technology","rifnote_country-canada","rifnote_country-usa","rifnote_executive-jamie-iannone","rifnote_executive-ryan-cohen"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108301450-17778934171777893414-45698958890-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1777893416&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}