GameStop Raises $325 Million In IPO As Barnes & Noble Bets Big On Video Games
Kotaku | 11.08.2026 01:00
GameStop went public on the New York Stock Exchange today, February 13, 2002, for a whopping $325 million. It closed at roughly $20.10 a share, a roughly 12-percent premium on what analysts had expected ahead of the spin-out. The market for video games and consoles hit $9.4 billion last year in 2001, a nearly 30-percent jump over where it was just a few years prior.
