Take Two

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Wichtige Fakten

Founded 1993 • NASDAQ: TTWO • Q3 2026 results (Dec 31, 2025 quarter)

$1.70b

Revenue (Q3 2026)

$(92.9)m

Net loss (Q3 2026)

$1.76b

Net bookings (Q3 2026)

77%

Recurrent spend share (Q3 2026 revenue)

97%

Digital revenue mix (Q3 2026)

51%

Mobile revenue mix (Q3 2026)

Über das Unternehmen

Founded in 1993 and headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive is a global developer, publisher, and marketer of interactive entertainment. The company operates primarily through three labels: Rockstar Games, 2K, and Zynga. Its portfolio includes some of the industry’s best-known franchises, including Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, NBA 2K, WWE 2K, Sid Meier’s Civilization, BioShock, Mafia, Borderlands, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Toon Blast, Empires & Puzzles, and Words With Friends. Take-Two is publicly listed on Nasdaq under the ticker TTWO.

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Take-Two’s identity rests on owning long-lived entertainment brands and extending them across console, PC, and mobile. Rockstar anchors the portfolio with Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. 2K combines annual sports franchises with deeper premium series such as Civilization, BioShock, Mafia, and Borderlands. Zynga gives the group meaningful scale in free-to-play mobile, with a portfolio that has surpassed six billion downloads across titles such as CSR Racing, Toon Blast, Toy Blast, Match Factory!, Merge Dragons!, and Words With Friends.

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As of March 31, 2025, Take-Two employed 12,928 full-time staff and generated $5.63 billion in net revenue and $5.65 billion in net bookings for fiscal 2025. The business today is broader than the classic console-publisher image suggests. Mobile accounted for 52.2% of net revenue in fiscal 2025, while recurrent consumer spending made up 79.4%, showing the growing weight of live services and in-game monetization. The company also reshaped its structure in 2024 by acquiring Gearbox in June and selling Private Division in October, leaving a more focused three-label setup built around owned IP, sports simulation, and scaled mobile publishing.

Geschäftsmodell und Marktposition

Take-Two runs a multi-platform model built on owned entertainment IP, annual sports franchises, and mobile live-service games. The company now operates through Rockstar Games, 2K, and Zynga after selling Private Division in October 2024. It distributes across console, PC, and mobile through digital storefronts, online platforms, cloud streaming, and a small physical retail channel. For the nine months ended December 31, 2025, Take-Two generated $4.98 billion in net revenue. Recurrent consumer spending accounted for 77.1% of revenue, digital online channels for 96.9%, and mobile for about half of the platform mix.

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Premium franchise publishing
Rockstar and 2K are the core premium labels. They sell full games across console and PC, then extend those brands through downloadable content, new platform versions, and long catalog sales. Key franchises include Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Civilization, Borderlands, Mafia, and WWE 2K.
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Annualized sports and recurrent spending
NBA 2K, WWE 2K, and PGA TOUR 2K add repeatable yearly demand. Take-Two extends those titles with virtual currency, add-on content, in-game purchases, and online services. Management treats annualized titles and ongoing mobile businesses as a recurring part of the model, which reduces some of the volatility between larger AAA releases.
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Mobile scale through Zynga
Zynga gives Take-Two a large base in mobile. Monetization comes from in-app purchases and in-game advertising, while live titles keep players engaged between premium launches. In the latest quarter, Toon Blast, Match Factory!, Empires & Puzzles, Color Block Jam, Words With Friends, and Toy Blast were among the company’s largest contributors to bookings or revenue.
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Focus on owned IP
Take-Two states that content ownership supports profit potential. The company sold Private Division in October 2024, while the Gearbox acquisition in June 2024 added development capacity and the Risk of Rain franchise. That leaves a tighter structure built around Rockstar, 2K, Zynga, and larger repeatable brands.
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Take-Two’s market position rests more on franchise quality and monetization depth than on the sheer breadth of its catalog. The latest investor deck highlights 13 franchises with individual titles that have sold in more than 5 million units and 15 of the top 200 U.S. grossing mobile games. That gives the company balance across premium console releases, annual sports, and mobile live services. The trade-off is concentration. Take-Two itself flags dependence on Grand Theft Auto products and other hit titles as a core business risk.

Performance in China

Take-Two has a focused presence in China, but it is narrower than its footprint in North America and Europe. The company describes China as its most established market in Asia and serves it mainly through Tencent partnerships rather than a broad self-operated platform. In current filings, Take-Two does not report China as a standalone geography. It reports only U.S. and international revenue, with international accounting for 40% of net bookings in the nine months ended December 31, 2025.

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Basketball is the main China growth engine
NBA 2K Online remains Take-Two’s strongest position in China and is still described by the company as the country’s top PC sports game. The franchise has also expanded through Tencent with NBA 2K All-Star. By February 2026, that title had grown to nearly 9 million registered users in less than one year on the market, after earlier reaching the top spot on China’s iOS Sports Game Chart for both downloads and revenue.
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The local portfolio is selective
Outside basketball, Take-Two cites Civilization: Eras and Allies as part of its China offering. That points to a targeted strategy built around proven global IP and local distribution support from Tencent. Compared with NetEase, Take-Two’s China position is smaller, more concentrated, and less diversified across genres. That is an inference based on Take-Two’s disclosed China lineup and reporting structure.
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Regulation shapes the ceiling
Take-Two states that all games in China require regulatory approval and that enforcement for mobile and online games remains uncertain. That makes China an important engagement market for the company, but also a less predictable market for release timing and portfolio expansion.

Wachstum und Zukunftsaussichten

Take-Two enters its next growth phase with a stronger mix of premium releases and recurring digital spending. In fiscal third quarter 2026, net bookings rose 28% to $1.76 billion, management raised fiscal 2026 net bookings guidance to $6.65 billion to $6.7 billion, and it still projected record net bookings in fiscal 2027. That outlook is supported by a broad base of live-service and mobile revenue, not only by one release cycle. Recurrent consumer spending accounted for 77.1% of net revenue in the first nine months of fiscal 2026, and recent top contributors included NBA 2K26, Grand Theft Auto Online and Grand Theft Auto V, Toon Blast, Match Factory!, Empires & Puzzles, Color Block Jam, Red Dead Redemption, Words With Friends, WWE 2K25, and Borderlands 4.

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Grand Theft Auto VI is the central earnings catalyst
Rockstar now plans to release Grand Theft Auto VI on November 19, 2026. Take-Two has tied that launch directly to its expectation for record net bookings in fiscal 2027 and a higher profitability baseline. For investors, that makes fiscal 2027 the key year in the current thesis.
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The pipeline is broader than GTA alone
Take-Two’s February 2026 investor presentation listed 21 immersive core titles, 9 mobile titles, and 8 new iterations of previously released titles across fiscal 2026 to fiscal 2028. The announced slate includes Judas, Project ETHOS, CSR 3, and Top Goal, while Mafia: The Old Country, Borderlands 4, and Civilization VII have already launched. WWE 2K26 also entered the market in March 2026, giving 2K another active annual sports release.
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Live services remain the stabilizer between major launches
Take-Two’s model is now built to carry more of the year through digital monetization. Digital online channels accounted for 96.9% of net revenue in the first nine months of fiscal 2026, while recurrent consumer spending remained above three quarters of revenue. That lowers dependence on boxed launches alone and gives Zynga, NBA 2K, GTA Online, and other ongoing titles a larger role in funding development and smoothing release gaps.
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Challenges ahead are clear
The biggest risk is still concentration. Take-Two states that a significant share of revenue has historically come from a few franchises, with Grand Theft Auto products alone generating 12.4% of net revenue in the first nine months of fiscal 2026. The company also flags player acquisition costs in mobile, release timing, and control of development and marketing costs as core execution risks. In addition, management disclosed that it chose not to proceed with further development of certain titles during fiscal 2026, which shows capital discipline but also underlines how selective the pipeline has become.

Dieses Unternehmensprofil wurde von Dominik Diemer verfasst

Dominik Diemer verbindet eine Investorenmentalität mit Disziplin in der Umsetzung.

Er ist SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) und Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) Practitioner bei DMG MORI Digital und arbeitet als SAFe Release Train Engineer und interner Berater im Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).

Sein Schwerpunkt liegt auf Priorisierung, Fluss und Abhängigkeitsmanagement, um Strategien in Ergebnisse umzusetzen. Mit seiner Erfahrung bei Bertelsmann und der Founders Foundation schlägt er eine Brücke zwischen Unternehmens- und Start-up-Denken.

Er investiert auch privat in Private-Equity-Deals und schärft so seinen Blick für Geschäftsmodelle, Werttreiber und Markteinführung.

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