Take-Two Rose 0.80% as the Nasdaq 100 Fell 2.90% on 22 October

Take-Two shares went up 0.80% on 22 October while the Nasdaq 100 fell 2.90%, a gap of 3.70 percentage points on a sharp risk off session 28 days before Grand Theft Auto VI ships. Two independent sources agree to the cent on both instruments. In the same 24 hours a New York state pension fund's filing showed it trimmed its Take-Two stake in the quarter before launch, and Take-Two itself has lodged nothing with the SEC since 16 October. The session, verified twice These are closing figures for a completed session, not live quotes, and that distinction is kept throughout. Instrument21 Oct close22 Oct closeChange TTWO, NasdaqGS206.16207.81+1.65, +0.80% Nasdaq 100, ^NDX29,822.5228,958.69down 863.83, down 2.90% QQQ, the index proxy ETFnot read704.47down 20.73, down 2.86% The spread between TTWO and the index on the session is 3.697 percentage points, which is arithmetic from the two percentage changes above. QQQ at down 2.86% corroborates the index move independently of the index print. The sources, with instants: Yahoo Finance's chart API for TTWO, HTTP 200 at 3,588 bytes, fetched 2026-10-23T03:04:23Z. Its regularMarketTime is exactly 2026-10-22T20:00:00Z, which is the 16:00 Eastern closing bell. The same API for ^NDX, HTTP 200 at 3,334 bytes, same instant, regularMarketTime 2026-10-22T21:15:59Z. api.nasdaq.com for TTWO, HTTP 200 at 769 bytes, fetched 2026-10-23T03:18:53Z, returning lastSalePrice $207.81, netChange +1.65, percentageChange +0.80%, lastTradeTimestamp Oct 22 2026 and isRealTime False. For NDX, HTTP 200 at 711 bytes at 03:19:24Z, returning 28,958.69, down 863.83, down 2.90%. For QQQ, HTTP 200 at 622 bytes, same instant. stockanalysis.com, HTTP 200 at 147,987 bytes at 03:18:53Z, carrying both 207.81 and 206.16, consistent with the above. TTWO's intraday range on the session was a low of 206.45, a high of 212.00 and an open of 206.48. Volume was about 2.36 million shares, and the two sources disagree slightly: Yahoo reports 2,355,800 and nasdaq.com 2,360,053, a difference of 4,253 shares. Both readings are printed rather than one being picked. Wider context, and the number that is not flattering MeasureValue Five sessions, 16 Oct close to 22 Oct close, TTWO205.28 to 207.81, +1.23% Same five sessions, Nasdaq 10029,187.55 to 28,958.69, down 0.78% Five session spread2.02 percentage points TTWO 52 week high and low265.94 and 187.63 22 Oct close against the 52 week high21.86% below it Heaviest volume session of the month, 13 Oct5,207,800 shares, intraday low 196.30, close 200.32 One session of outperformance against a 2.9% index drawdown is a real datapoint and a small one. The stock sitting 21.86% below its own 52 week high four weeks before the biggest launch in the industry is the number that complicates any simple read of launch confidence, and both belong in the same paragraph. Official Rockstar screenshot, included to illustrate the piece. It does not itself evidence any of the figures discussed here. A pension fund trimmed, and the filing cross validates itself The New York State Teachers' Retirement System, CIK 0000314969, filed its 13F-HR for the September quarter on 22 October 2026, accession 0000314969-26-000011. Its information table was read directly at HTTP 200 and 675,766 bytes on 2026-10-23T03:18:08Z, and the June quarter table, accession 0000314969-26-000007 filed 2026-07-23, at HTTP 200 and 688,886 bytes at 03:18:33Z. As ofFiledSharesValue, thousandsImplied price 2026-06-302026-07-23129,339$32,332$249.98 2026-09-302026-10-22125,566$26,055$207.50 That is down 3,773 shares, or 2.92% by count, and down $6.277 million, or 19.41% by value. Both changes are arithmetic from the two filed rows. CUSIP 874054109, issuer string as filed "TAKE TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWRE", title of class COM, investment discretion SOLE, voting authority sole 125,566 with none shared and none abstained. The cross check is the strong part. The implied 30 September price of $207.50 is an exact match for TTWO's 30 September 2026 close in the Yahoo daily series used above. Two unrelated sources agreeing to the cent is what makes the filing's value field trustworthy. Now the honest framing, which matters more than the headline. A 2.92% trim by one pension fund is not an exodus, and most of the 19.41% value decline is the share price falling from $249.98 to $207.50 over the quarter rather than selling. A 13F filed on 22 October also reports positions as of 30 September, so it is a three week old snapshot and says nothing about what the fund has done since. And the Q3 filing season is in full flow: an EDGAR full text search for "Take-Two" across 21 to 23 October returns 58 hits, mostly 13F and NPORT information tables, so this is one line in a very large set. A second 22 October filer, Wedbush Securities, reports 3,260 shares at $676 thousand with voting authority recorded as None, a pattern that indicates customer or brokerage held positions rather than a house view, and it is not dressed up here as anything else. Nothing from Take-Two itself, triple checked CheckResultRead at data.sec.gov submissions JSON for CIK 0000946581, HTTP 200, 158,032 bytes1,004 filings, newest accession 0000946581-26-000104, Form 4, filed 2026-10-16, accepted 2026-10-17T00:11:33Z, period 2026-10-15. Nothing after it2026-10-23T03:01:46Z browse-edgar atom feed, HTTP 200, 25,510 bytesNewest entry is the same accession, same date2026-10-23T03:01:46Z EDGAR daily company index for 22 October, HTTP 200, 455,835 bytes, 3,115 linesNo match for TAKE TWO, ROCKSTAR or ZELNICK2026-10-23T03:02:11Z The 23 October daily indexHTTP 403 at 211 bytes, not yet posted2026-10-23T03:02:11Z The next scheduled moment management speaks on the record is the Q2 fiscal 2027 earnings call. Take-Two's investor relations release index, HTTP 200 at 516,708 bytes read 2026-10-23T03:03:21Z, carries a top item dated October 13, 2026 reading, verbatim, that Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. will report second quarter fiscal year 2027 results on Monday, November 9, 2026. That is ten days before launch. The announcement itself is old, dated 13 October, and the release's own detail page returned HTTP 404 at 13,638 bytes, so the headline and date come from the index page and not from the release body. A correction to this desk's own Netflix reporting Batch 64 got a detail wrong and this corrects it. That piece reported that Netflix's quarterly shareholder letter named Grand Theft Auto VI "in the footnotes". The exhibit was read again this cycle, ex991_q326.htm at HTTP 200 and 516,549 bytes on 2026-10-23T03:19:59Z. The mention sits in the body of the letter, in the licensing and third party content paragraph, and what follows the title in the raw markup is a superscript 5, a footnote reference marker. So the sentence is footnoted and the mention is body copy. The correct wording is body text with a footnote attached. Everything else about that find holds. Accession 0001065280-26-000290, Netflix Inc, CIK 0001065280, form 8-K, file date 2026-10-20, period ending 2026-10-20, file number 001-35727. The sentence says Netflix partnered with Take-Two to unveil a sneak peek of Grand Theft Auto VI in August. Worth noting as a measurement detail: batch 64 read that same exhibit at 516,547 bytes on 2026-10-22T03:24:18Z and this cycle read 516,549 bytes. Two honest readings two bytes apart, both printed with their instants rather than one being quietly adopted. And the vein that document opened has produced nothing new. EDGAR full text searches across 21 to 23 October return 0 hits for "Grand Theft Auto" at HTTP 200 and 1,024 bytes, 0 hits for "Rockstar Games" at 1,021 bytes and 0 hits for "Leonida" at 1,014 bytes, all read 2026-10-23T03:02:23Z. A wider search across 20 to 23 October returns exactly one hit, which is the Netflix document itself. Limits These are closes, not live quotes. api.nasdaq.com returns isRealTime False for both instruments and the 22 October session is complete. There is no 23 October session data in this piece. No Nasdaq 100 volume figure appears here. The value Yahoo reports for the 22 October session is roughly an order of magnitude below what it reports for the surrounding sessions. It looks truncated, it could not be corroborated anywhere, and so it is omitted rather than printed with a caveat. The prices are corroborated to the cent by two independent sources and are safe. One session is one session. A single day of relative strength against a falling index is not evidence of launch confidence, a forecast, or investment advice of any kind. No analyst, fund manager or company representative was contacted. A method correction, for anyone comparing with earlier cycles. stooq.com, which earlier cycles may have used for quotes, is now behind a JavaScript proof of work challenge and resets connections. The replacement pair is Yahoo Finance plus api.nasdaq.com, and they agree to the cent. A retrieval exception is disclosed. sec.gov rejects a desktop browser user agent with HTTP 403, and SEC policy asks automated requesters to declare an identity instead, so every EDGAR fetch above used the user agent "6Charts News Desk [email protected]" and returned HTTP 200. rockstargames.com/robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot by name, and every other fetch used a standard desktop browser user agent against a specific public URL rather than crawling. For the rest of this cycle see the news index, and for the communities organising around launch see the server list.