Forensic Analysis · Retail / Consumer Discretionary · as of Aug 11, 2026
Gamestop Corp. (GME)
A forensic read on Gamestop Corp. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
D · Weak — demands caution
Forensic grade
Safe
Financial health
7.9
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
6
Forensic signals
11.2
P / E (ttm)
7.7%
ROE
$8.5B
Market cap
-5.1%
Revenue growth
This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.
Gamestop Corp. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 7.9, placing it in the Safe zone. 6 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).
What the filings flag
+177.2%
FY2025→FY2026
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +177.2% relative to their own average in FY2026 — scaled by NOA itself, not total assets (see the Forensic Screens card's differently-scaled Sloan Accrual Ratio for that read). Accruals are building sharply — a large slice of profit sits in operating assets, not cash; Richardson/Sloan link high accruals to weaker future returns as they reverse. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran behind operating cash by 11% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.
6.1%
FY2026
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 6.1% in the latest fiscal year and rising from -38% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.
+21.8%/yr
FY2023–FY2026
Share-count dilution.Diluted share count changed +81% over the last 3 years to FY2026 (+21.8%/yr). The count is growing: more stock was issued than repurchased over this window, so aggregate results grew faster than their per-share equivalents. That's ~21.8% shaved off per-share growth every year — total profit has to grow that much just to keep earnings-per-share flat, and a stake held since FY2023 has been diluted ~45%.
0.7% of rev
FY2026
Stock-based comp load.Stock-based compensation ran 0.7% of revenue and 4% of free cash flow in FY2026 — about $0.05 per diluted share. The cost of it is not in the cash flow — no cash left the business — it is in the count: holders gave up about 22.9% of the company a year, and that rate is not falling. That is the figure to weigh, not the share of free cash flow.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$3.63B
Revenue Growth YoY-5.1%
Net Margin11.5%
Free Cash Flow$597.3M
Return on Equity7.7%
Debt / Equity0.76x
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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.
stopped
FY2021→FY2023
Shareholder returns — halted.Capital returns have STOPPED — $300,000 of buybacks + dividends in FY2021, but ~$0 in FY2023. A halt usually means the company is conserving cash.
suspended
FY2021→FY2023
Dividend — suspended.The dividend has been SUSPENDED — $300,000 paid in FY2021, then $0 in FY2023. A suspension is a major signal the board is conserving cash; the prior payment history doesn't offset it.