Activists to Board: “Everybody out!”
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🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Bed Bath & Beyond shares pop 25% as activist groups look to clean house. Abi Malin analyzes the role short-selling plays in today’s stock move, as well as how spinoffs could lead to a brighter future for the challenged retailer. Plus, we share our reactions to Apple’s big event and discuss McDonald’s biggest acquisition in 20 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Hello Monday from LinkedIn for supporting Market Foolery. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello Monday is a new podcast from LinkedIn's editorial team |
| 0:06.1 | about how to get the most from Monday and your career. |
| 0:09.4 | Find Hello Monday on Apple Podcasts |
| 0:11.9 | or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:14.0 | It's Tuesday, March 26th. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today. |
| 0:21.0 | Abby Mallin in the house. |
| 0:23.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:24.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:25.0 | So we're going to get to the stock of the day, which amazingly is BedBass and Beyond. |
| 0:30.4 | We're going to get to McDonald's because I think what they've just done is pretty interesting. We should start though with Apple. |
| 0:35.6 | We ended yesterday's episode Jason and I sort of opining about Apple's event |
| 0:42.2 | now there's any number of stories out there for those who missed it. |
| 0:48.0 | I guess the headline is they came out, they unveiled sort of the Apple TV plus, the Arcade Gaming, the Apple Credit |
| 0:56.4 | card. |
| 0:57.4 | We're going to dig into this further on Motley Full Money this week, but I'm curious, what's your main takeaway from their event? |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, I mean I think the market in general was pretty underwhelmed and I can't say that I differ so much, |
| 1:11.0 | but I didn't necessarily have higher expectations. I think Apple traditionally |
| 1:15.5 | has been a hardware company and we're really seeing them try to sort of pivot so we're at this |
| 1:20.5 | inflection point for them and it's either going to be make or break as they start to |
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