If you have ever meddled a bit with stock markets beyond the most basic levels, you know analysts can make or break a company. While the technical value of their claims is often doubtful at the very least, many investors blindly accept analyst predictions as being true. Reputed party Morgan Securities predicting more problems for troubled publisher Take Two can become a self-fulfilling prophecy easily perhaps.

Skipping immediately to the most worrying prediction, analyst Michael Pachter suggests the company’s problems, resulting mainly from the well known Hot Coffee scandal and our big friend Jack’s crusade, could result in it being split into several separate divisions fit for purchase by other publishers. Of which the most worrying consequence could be that Electronic Arts would acquire either the entire company or just the 2K Sports division, resulting in a monopoly on everything sports for the publishing giant. Needless to say an EA monopoly on the popular sports genre would be the last thing we’d all want to happen, since healthy competition is what keeps innovation alive in a capitalist system.

The big question is whether Take Two’s main moneymaking franchise, Grand Theft Auto will perform well enough to compensate for losses and bad performance elsewhere in the company. As Pachter suggests, Take Two management should sacrifice some of the eternal freedom being given to their successful developers to avoid another Hot Coffee scandal taking its toll on the company’s coffers.

Thanks to nofear360 for spotting this over at our colleagues of Xbox 360 Fanboy.