Shorts dumped 64,362 shares on Pearl Abyss (263750.KQ) on April 21 and still couldn't hold the close below the average short price. Foreigners +28,741, institutions +7,960, low-to-close recovery of +2.06%. More importantly: short-sale intensity peaked on April 16 at 298,379 shares and has collapsed -78.4% since. Today's reading — shorts are still present, but price-setting power is slipping. This is the absorption tape, not the squeeze tape.
With Crimson Desert's official milestones (4M units by April 1, 5M by April 15) now on the record, what does Pearl Abyss's (263750.KQ) first launch quarter print actually look like? Central case: KRW 395B revenue, KRW 205B operating profit, 51.9% OPM. But the key 1Q26 variables aren't the unit number — they're the accounting frame (principal vs. agent), realized ASP, and the marketing/commission expense lines that are still footnoted black boxes.
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Pearl Abyss (263750.KQ)'s 9-year-old MMO Black Desert Online quietly posted +40% YoY monthly average CCU in April 2026 — five consecutive months of growth while the market watched Crimson Desert. The second-order catalyst most models haven't priced.
Pearl Abyss (263750.KQ) hit 5M copies on April 15. Yet sell-side consensus still clusters at 5M–6M for full-year 2026 — the sell-side consensus gap explained.