shares of gamestop corp gme eased 03 in morning trading tuesday after executives filed to sell some of the consumer electronics and videogame retailer’s stock chief operating officer nir patel disclosed late monday the sale in the open market on monday and friday of a total of 122073 shares valued at 276 million the disclosure said the sales were to cover withholding taxes related to the vesting of restricted stock units and did not represent a “discretionary trade” by patel after the sale patel owned 1004697 shares or 03 of the shares outstanding separately chief financial officer diana saadehjajeh had filed late friday for the proposed sale of 10484 shares but did not yet disclose any sales gamestop’s stock has rallied 272 year to date while the sp 500 spx has advanced 151