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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)
9 Months Ended
Nov. 01, 2025
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Basis of Presentation and Consolidation The condensed consolidated financial statements include our accounts and the accounts of our wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The condensed consolidated financial statements included herein reflect all adjustments (consisting only of normal, recurring adjustments) which are, in our opinion, necessary for a fair presentation of the information for the periods presented. These condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and the instructions to Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they exclude certain disclosures required under GAAP for complete consolidated financial statements.
Fiscal Period
The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements and notes are unaudited. The condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended February 1, 2025 ("fiscal 2024") filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 25, 2025. Due to the seasonal nature of our business, our results of operations for the nine months ended November 1, 2025 are not indicative of our future results for the year ending January 31, 2026 ("fiscal 2025"). Our fiscal year is composed of the 52 or 53 weeks ending on the Saturday closest to the last day of January. Fiscal 2025 consists of 52 weeks ending on January 31, 2026. Fiscal 2024 consisted of 52 weeks ended on February 1, 2025. All three month periods presented herein contain 13 weeks. All references to years, quarters and months relate to fiscal periods rather than calendar periods. Our business, like that of many retailers, is seasonal, with the major portion of the net sales realized during the fourth quarter, which includes the holiday selling season.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported and disclosed in the condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying footnotes. We regularly evaluate the estimates related to our assets and liabilities, contingent assets and liabilities, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses. In preparing these condensed consolidated financial statements, we have made our best estimates and judgments of certain amounts recognized in the condensed consolidated financial statements, giving due consideration to materiality. Changes in the estimates and assumptions that we have used could have a significant impact on our financial results. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash
Our cash and cash equivalents are carried at cost, which approximates fair value, and consists primarily of cash, money market funds, cash deposits with commercial banks, and highly rated direct short-term instruments with an original maturity of 90 days or less. Our restricted cash is also carried at cost, which approximates fair value, and consists primarily of bank deposits that collateralize our obligations to vendors and landlords.
Investments

Investments
We have invested some of our excess cash in investment grade short-term fixed income securities, which primarily consist of U.S. government and agency securities, as well as time deposits. Such investments with an original maturity in excess of 90 days and less than one year are classified as Marketable securities on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company classifies these investments as available-for-sale debt securities and records them at fair value. Unrealized holding gains and losses on these investments are recognized in Accumulated other comprehensive loss on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. Realized gains and losses upon sale or extinguishment are reported in Other income, net in our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. Each reporting period, we evaluate whether declines in fair value below carrying value are due to expected credit losses, as well as our ability and intent to hold the investment until a forecasted recovery occurs.
On March 18, 2025, our Board of Directors (the "Board") unanimously authorized a revised investment policy (the “Investment Policy”). In accordance with the Investment Policy, the Board has delegated authority to manage the Company’s portfolio of securities investments to an Investment Committee of the Board (the "Investment Committee") consisting of the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ryan Cohen, as well as two independent members of the Board, together with such personnel and advisors the Investment Committee may further choose.
On March 25, 2025, we announced that, as part of our revisions to the Investment Policy, the Board approved the addition of Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset, whereby a portion of our cash or future debt and equity issuances may be invested in Bitcoin. Such investments are classified as Digital assets on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, and are recorded at fair value. See "Digital Assets" section below for further details.
Assets Held for Sale

Assets Held for Sale
We consider assets to be held for sale when management, with appropriate authority, approves and commits to a formal plan to actively market the assets for sale at a price reasonable in relation to their estimated fair value, the assets are available for immediate sale in their present condition, an active program to locate a buyer has been initiated, the sale of the assets is probable and expected to be completed within one year, and it is unlikely that significant changes will be made to the plan. Upon designation as held for sale, we record the assets at the lower of their carrying value or their estimated fair value, reduced for the cost to dispose of the assets.

In connection with our efforts to achieve sustained profitability, we continue to evaluate our international assets and operations to determine their strategic and financial fit and to reduce redundancies and underperforming assets.
Digital Assets
Digital Assets
In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued ASU No. 2023-08, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Crypto Assets (Subtopic 350-60): Accounting for and Disclosure of Crypto Assets (“ASU 2023-08"). ASU 2023-08 requires certain crypto assets to be measured at fair value separately on the balance sheet with gains and losses from changes in the fair value reported as unrealized gains or losses in the statement of operations each reporting period. ASU 2023-08 also enhances the other intangible asset disclosure requirements by requiring the name, cost basis, fair value, and number of units for each significant crypto asset holding. The new crypto assets standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Adoption of the new crypto assets standard requires a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings as of the beginning of the annual reporting period in which an entity adopts the amendments. We adopted the new crypto assets standard on a modified retrospective basis effective February 2, 2025. The Company did not hold any material investments in crypto assets immediately prior to the adoption of ASU 2023-08 and the cumulative effect on the opening balance of retained earnings and the impact on our August 2, 2025 Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets for the adoption of the new crypto assets standard was immaterial.
During the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, the Company purchased 4,710 Bitcoin. The Company accounts for its digital assets, including Bitcoin, as indefinite-lived intangible assets in accordance with ASC 350, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other. The Company's digital assets are initially recorded at cost, and are measured at fair value as of each reporting period. The Company determines the fair value of its digital assets in accordance with ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement, based on quoted prices on the Coinbase exchange, an active exchange that the Company has determined to be its principal market for Bitcoin (Level 1 inputs). Changes in fair value are recognized as incurred in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, as "Unrealized (gain) loss on digital assets," within the non operating expenses in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations.
Warrants
Warrants
On October 7, 2025, the Company announced that the Board declared a distribution (the “Warrant Distribution”) to the holders of record of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”) and holders of the Company’s 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 and 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2032 (the “Convertible Notes”), in the form of warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock (the “Warrants”). The Warrants were issued on the terms and conditions described in a Warrant Agreement (as defined below), and were distributed on October 7, 2025, to the record holders of the Common Stock and the Convertible Notes as of the close of business on October 3, 2025 (the “Record Date”).
Pursuant to the terms of the Warrant Agreement, dated as of October 7, 2025, between the Company, Computershare Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its affiliate, Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Warrant Agent (the “Warrant Agreement”), each holder of record of Common Stock as of the Record Date received one Warrant for every ten shares of Common Stock (rounded down to the nearest whole number for any fractional Warrant). Holders of our 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 (the "Convertible 2030 Notes") and 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2032 (the “Convertible 2032 Notes” and, collectively with the Convertible 2030 Notes, the “Convertible Notes”) also received Warrants on an “as converted” basis in lieu of an adjustment to the respective conversion rates for each of the Convertible Notes pursuant to the applicable indentures governing the Convertible Notes. The distribution of the Warrants to the holders of the Convertible Notes was at the same time and on the same terms as holders of the Common Stock. Holders of the Convertible Notes will not need to convert the Convertible Notes into Common Stock in order to receive the Warrants.

Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase, at the holder’s sole and exclusive election, at a cash exercise price of $32.00 per Warrant (the “Exercise Price”), one share of Common Stock, subject to adjustment pursuant to the provisions of the Warrant Agreement. Payment for shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Warrants must be in cash. The Warrants will expire and cease to be exercisable at 5:00 p.m. New York City time on October 30, 2026 (the “Expiration Date”).

The Warrants have been classified as equity in accordance with ASC 815-40, primarily due to the following factors: (i) the Warrants provide for the purchase of a fixed number of shares at a fixed exercise price; (ii) the Company is not obligated under the Warrant Agreement to net-cash settle the Warrants, except in the case of the liquidation of the Company and (iii) the Company has sufficient authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock available to settle the Warrants after considering all other Common Stock commitments.

The Company estimated the fair value of the Warrants using the Black-Scholes option pricing model (Level 3) using the following key inputs: (i) closing stock price on the valuation date of October 7, 2025: $24.35; (ii) Exercise Price: $32.00; (iii) expiration Date: October 30, 2026; (iv) risk-free rate: 3.6% (v) expected dividend yield 0.0%; and (vi) volatility: 50.0%.

The estimated fair value of each warrant on the issuance date was $2.94 and the $173.9 million aggregate fair value of the Warrants was recorded as additional paid-in-capital. Of this aggregate fair value amount of the Warrants, $42.2 million was distributed to the holders of the Convertible Note and recognized as interest expense and $131.7 million was distributed to stockholders and recorded to retained earnings. During the three months ended November 1, 2025, holders exercised 4,422 Warrants, resulting in the issuance of 4,422 shares of common stock and cash proceeds of $141,504.

The number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants is subject to certain anti-dilution adjustments, including for stock dividends, share splits, share combinations, rights issuances, other distributions, spinoffs, cash dividends and tender or exchange offers.

The Warrants commenced trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “GME WS” on October 8, 2025.
In connection with the Warrant Distribution, the Company has filed a prospectus supplement, dated October 7, 2025, pursuant to the Company’s existing shelf registration statement on Form S-3 ASR, effective as of October 3, 2025, registering up to 59,153,963 shares of Common Stock to be issued upon exercise of the Warrants.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

In December 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standard Update (ASU) No. 2023-09, "Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures." This standard enhances disclosures related to income taxes, including the rate reconciliation and information on income taxes paid. This ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that the adoption of this standard will have on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and expects to make additional disclosures upon adoption.

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, "Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40)". The guidance includes amendments to require public companies to provide additional disclosure about certain costs and expenses. The ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that the adoption of this standard will have on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Fair Value Measurements Fair Value Measurements
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. Applicable accounting standards require disclosures that categorize assets and liabilities measured at fair value into one of three different levels depending on the observability of the inputs employed in the measurement. Each fair value measurement is reported in one of the following three levels:
Level 1 inputs are quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;
Level 2 inputs are observable inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1 for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly through market-corroborated inputs; and
Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability reflecting our assumptions about pricing by market participants.
Assets and Liabilities that are Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis
Assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis include our cash equivalents, marketable securities, digital assets, foreign currency contracts, company-owned life insurance policies with a cash surrender value, and certain nonqualified deferred compensation liabilities.
We measure the fair value of cash equivalents, certain marketable securities and digital assets based on quoted prices in active markets for identical assets. Other marketable securities were valued either based on recent trades of securities in inactive markets or based on quoted market prices of similar instruments and other significant inputs derived from or corroborated by observable market data.
Our investments in U.S. government treasury notes and bills are classified as available-for-sale debt securities, are reported at fair value on a recurring basis, and utilize Level 1 inputs for measurement. Our investments in time deposits are reported at fair value and utilize Level 1 inputs for measurement.
We measure the fair value of our foreign currency contracts, life insurance policies with cash surrender values and certain nonqualified deferred compensation liabilities based on Level 2 inputs using quotations provided by major market news services, such as Bloomberg, and industry-standard models that consider various assumptions, including quoted forward prices, time value, volatility factors, contractual prices for the underlying instruments, and other relevant economic measures, all of which are observable in active markets. When appropriate, valuations are adjusted to reflect credit considerations, generally based on available market evidence.