Despite the craze for GTA 6, Take 2 still far from the biggest rated video game groups

(BFM Bourse) – The number of video game groups listed on the stock exchange is relatively high. The ranking of the largest listed companies in the sector, however, remains dominated by American and Asian companies.

Take 2 Interactive hit the screen this week. The American company, owner of the Rockstar Games studio, unveiled the trailer for GTA 6breaking YouTube records for a music video.

Take 2 Interactive, we sometimes tend to forget, is listed on the stock exchange, and the publication of the GTA 6 trailer has also caused profits to be taken on the title. With a market capitalization of just under $27 billion

where does the American company stand among the world’s listed video game groups?

Answer: according to the sector ranking established by the reference site companiesmarketcap.com, Take 2 Interactive is in seventh place.

This ranking can obviously be discussed on several points, if only because it is dominated by Microsoft, the second largest company in the world on the stock market, with a capitalization of just under 2,800 billion of dollars.

If it is legitimate to consider the Seattle group as a major player in video games, especially after the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, its activities are obviously much more diversified. The group’s revenues from video games are drowned in the “Personal Computing” division which itself represented just under a third ($13.7 billion) of its turnover of 56.5 billion dollars over the last reported quarter.

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Tencent in second place, Microsoft far ahead

Behind Microsoft we find the Chinese video game juggernaut Tencent ($376.5 billion), also allied with the Guillemot family in the capital of Ubisoft. But, here again, we can argue that Tencent has other activities, such as mobile internet services or Wechat instant messaging, the absolute benchmark in China.

Ditto for Sony, third with a market capitalization of $109.57 billion. The Japanese group which has designed the Playstation since 1994 is also present in music and consumer electronics. Video games represent a large third of its revenues.

Beyond the podium, the top 5 is completed by NetEase ($67.5 billion), a Chinese company which notably develops mobile games like Marvel Super War, and Nintendo which we will not insult you by you present.

Electronic Arts, known for its sports licenses, is in sixth place ($37 billion), ahead of Take Two Interactive. Listed since 2021, the children’s video game platform Roblox comes in eighth place ($25.63 billion). Followed by Sea ($21.85 billion), parent company of Garena, a group based in Singapore, and Nexon ($18.58 billion), a Korean developer but listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

A glance at the rest of the ranking allows us to realize that very well-known groups are also listed, such as Bandai Namco (12th), creator of Tekken, Capcom (16th) the publisher of Street Fighter and Resident Evil, or again Square Enix (23rd) to whom we owe the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy sagas.

Note that the leading European group is none other than our French champion, Ubisoft, which is in… thirtieth place, with a capitalization of $3.42 billion.