It's Thursday, July 18th.

Welcome to Market Forward.

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today.

Jason Moser in the house.

Thanks for being here.

Hey, hey.

Next week is my favorite week of earning season and that is because nearly 700

companies are going to be reporting next week. That is a lot of companies. It's my

favorite week and it happens four times a year so So, I'm very excited about this.

So today we're going to talk about five companies that are reporting next week and what

investors should be looking for, watching, whether it's a number something out of management you

decide and we'll start with Chipotle which reports next Tuesday.

Yeah I mean you look at Chipotle you think that over the past year I mean what an amazing

run this this stock has had I mean it was just a little bit more than a year ago I noted

on Twitter that I'd trimmed my Chipotle position because it really felt like the road ahead was a long one.

And when you get down to it, I mean restaurants generally speaking don't have any serious

durable competitive advantages.

I mean, it doesn't mean they can't be good investments, but, you know, I mean, the risks with

Chipotle were there still, particularly with new CEO in place. But you know I kept some of that position because I felt like there was an opportunity under the new CEO with Brian Nickle and I wanted to at least be a part of that, albeit a smaller part of that.

You fast forward to today, shares up around 70%, what's going on?

I think that really Brian Nichols has just taken this thing by the horns.

I mean, he's gone on a national advertising

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