{"id":1438,"date":"2026-05-04T00:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:02:55","slug":"gamestop-making-56-billion-offer-to-acquire-ebay-wsj-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"GameStop making $56 billion offer to acquire eBay, WSJ says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1032311812-e1777852016131.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>GameStop Corp. will offer $125 in cash and stock per eBay Inc. share in a takeover proposal valued at about $56 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an interview with GameStop Chief Executive Ryan Cohen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>Cohen told the paper that GameStop has built a roughly 5% stake in the e-commerce platform and secured a commitment letter from TD Bank to provide about $20 billion in debt financing for a deal. The company is expected to make its offer public later on Sunday, the WSJ said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The executive also told the paper that he is prepared for a proxy fight and take the offer to shareholders if necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"not-prose empty:contents [:has(*[data-empty=true])]:hidden clear-both\">\n<div class=\"typography-level-4 mt-4 font-graphik-compact [&amp;_*_a]:hover:underline\" data-cy=\"subscriptionPlea\"><span class=\"description-parser contents\" data-cy=\"description\"><strong>The Fortune 500 Innovation Forum<\/strong> will convene Fortune 500 executives, U.S. policy officials, top founders, and thought leaders to help define what\u2019s next for the American economy, <strong>Nov. 16-17 in Detroit. Apply here.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>#GameStop #making #billion #offer #acquire #eBay #WSJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GameStop Corp. will offer $125 in cash and stock per eBay Inc. share in a takeover proposal valued at about $56 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an interview&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2551,1056,2000,2001,2550,1398,1076,2552],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-acquire","tag-billion","tag-ebay","tag-gamestop","tag-making","tag-offer","tag-retail","tag-wsj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}