With the recent announcement of Cavill heading new Warhammer movies and TV shows for Amazon, Games Workshop stock soars almost 20%!
If you missed the announcement earlier about Cavill heading up a bunch of Warhammer media for Amazon, check that out by clicking here. If you think it had a big effect on social media, it may have impacted Games Workshop’s stock more!
It looks like Cavill is really carrying Games Workshop on his (very strong) back with this one.
Let’s take a closer look!
Games Workshop Stock Soars Almost 20% On the Back of Cavill Announcement
Editor’s note GBX is penny sterling so the price of Games Workshop stock in this image actually reads as £85.07 GBP the current USD rate is higher at $87.55
This is so wild, honestly; as you can see, over the past five days to the announcement, GW was slightly going down, and then bam, up 1,330 GBX in one day! More so than even in one day, this basically happened within a single hour.
As you can see from this chart, from when markets opened (8:00 a.m. GMT), in about 15 minutes, they shot up basically 20%! It dipped a little here and there but more or less remained at that number all day.
While having a series made by Amazon is obviously going to boost business, we also have to assume announcing it with Henry Cavill at the same time had to help the giant numbers. However, this raises a few very interesting questions. First, they are still extremely early in the process, and even the GW investor page said not to expect to see anything in the forecast until May 2023 at the earliest.
Whilst the parties have reached agreement on material commercial terms, the project is wholly dependent on and subject to contracts being agreed and entered into, which the parties are working towards.
The Company makes no change to its forecast for the period ended May 2023.
This is also somewhat speculative as they have yet to fully finish everything up, as they even say the project depends on final contracts. Here’s to hoping that everything goes forward as planned!
Also worth noting, the official press release came out about an hour before the markets opened, so it must have made the waves around the investor circles, hence why the stock rose so fast.
Who knows, maybe when we see everything finalized, the stock will increase like crazy once again. However, we can’t see another 20% increase in one day… can we?
Perhaps for now, it’s time to start making lists of who will actually play in the new movies and shows!
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About the Author: Travis Pasch
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About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
