4 CEOs to Follow
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🗓️ 15 January 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Goldman Sachs balances strong 4th-quarter revenue with a billion-dollar legal tab. Target’s stock falls on disappointing holiday sales numbers. Bill Barker analyzes those stories, plus we discuss four CEOs we’d shadow on the job (if they’d agree to it).
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Market Fuller is brought to you by Molecule. |
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| 0:17.0 | It's Wednesday, January 15th. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Market Fullry. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Chris Hill with me in studio, Mr. Bill Barker. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:26.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:27.0 | Earning season, I wouldn't say it's heating up, but it's getting started so we're going to get into a little bit of earnings |
| 0:33.2 | we've got some more holiday sales and we've got some CEOs to discuss but let's start |
| 0:38.0 | with Goldman Sachs because shares of Goldman Sachs are hitting a 52 week high this morning after fourth quarter |
| 0:45.3 | revenue came in just shy of $10 billion. |
| 0:49.3 | That is 23% higher than a year ago. It was not all sunshine and rainbows for Goldman Sachs though |
| 0:56.0 | because on the downside they have a legal bill somewhere just north of a billion dollars |
| 1:01.9 | that they're paying. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, that... |
| 1:05.0 | Is that like run-of-the-mill legal stuff or is there some big thing going on with them where they need more lawyers than usual? |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, it's the one IM DB, I think, or whatever the acronym is for that scandal. |
| 1:19.7 | Okay. |
| 1:20.7 | And yeah, I mean, when you say that it's sitting in 52 week high it sounds like this is mostly a sunshine and rainbow story. |
| 1:29.0 | You know, just looking over where Goldman has been and how the stock has done, you know, this is a company |
| 1:36.0 | that is underperformed over the last three, five, ten, and fifteen year periods. |
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