GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen Buys Another $26 Million of GME Stock

GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) chairman and CEO Ryan Cohen went back to the open market Monday, pushing his personal position in the video game retailer past 40 million shares.

A Form 4 filed with the SEC Monday shows Cohen bought 1,150,680 shares of GameStop Class A common stock the same day, at a weighted average price of $22.9375 per share. The trades filled between $22.76 and $23.02, putting the day’s outlay at roughly $26.4 million.

Cohen now directly owns 40,498,522 shares, worth about $922 million at Monday’s close of $22.76. The filing carries no Rule 10b5-1 designation, meaning the purchase was not made under a pre-scheduled plan — a detail retail traders have learned to watch closely since Cohen’s stake helped ignite the 2021 meme-st...