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GameStop
wants to acquire a publicly traded consumer company that’s far larger than the video game retailer in a deal that could be “transformational” for the company, CEO Ryan Cohen told CNBC in an interview Friday.
“It’s gonna be really big. Really big. Very, very, very big,” Cohen said of the size of the acquisition. “It’s transformational. Not just for GameStop, but ultimately, within the capital markets … this is something that really has never been done before within the history of the capital markets.”
Cohen declined to name the company’s targets – saying only he’s seeking a publicly traded consumer company that’s undervalued, “high quality, durable, scalable with growth prospects” and has a “sleepy management team” behind the wheel. He claimed if the investment pans out, it has the “potential to make [GameStop] worth several hundreds of billions of dollars.”
