Analysts predict Take-Two stock surge after GTA 6 preorders open at $80

GTA 6 preorders are live, the $80 price tag is confirmed, and Wall Street analysts are lining up with bullish price targets for Take-Two — even as the stock has actually dipped since preorders opened.

Bank of America's Omar Dessouky raised his Take-Two price target from $320 to $368, the most aggressive call in the bunch — a massive jump from the current $233 per share. BMO Capital's Brian Pitz bumped his target from $280 to $285, TD Cowen's Doug Creutz reiterated a Buy rating with a $284 target, Drew Crum at B. Riley Securities is forecasting $300, and BTIG's Clark Lampen held firm at $290. All targets were relayed via Tipranks. GTA 6 itself launches November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S — standard edition at $80, ultimate edition at $100, no disc version at launch.

Take-Two's stock peaked above $260 earlier in 2025 but is down 7% year-to-date and 3% over the past year. The sharpest drop came in February, when shares cratered to around $190 after Google unveiled AI-based game-making tools — a selloff analysts called overblown, arguing AI isn't close to producing anything that could compete with a title like GTA 6 or meaningfully disrupt Take-Two's business.

Dessouky was notably one of the voices who argued Rockstar should charge $80 specifically to give the broader industry cover to raise prices too. Whether the market follows the analysts' optimism remains to be seen — the stock's short-term reaction to the preorder news has been a shrug, but the long-term bull case clearly hasn't gone anywhere.