ALWAYS Look Past The Headline
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🗓️ 24 April 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
iRobot’s 1st-quarter profits came in higher than expected, but shares are falling 20%. Ron Gross analyzes the results and shares how looking past the headline can explain iRobot’s rough day. Domino’s Pizza shares pop despite the slowest same-store sales growth in more than 5 years. Plus, we dip into the Fool Mailbag to discuss the link between market highs and IPO offerings.
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| 0:21.0 | It's Wednesday, April 24th. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Market Fooler. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Chris Hale joining me in studio today. |
| 0:28.0 | For the first time and a long time, for me anyway. |
| 0:31.0 | Ron Gross is in the house. I'm here for Mac more so than for you. |
| 0:35.4 | But I'm here for either of you. I appreciate that. We're going to talk restaurants. |
| 0:39.9 | We're going to dip into the full mail bag. We're going to start with IRobot, and this is, ladies and gentlemen, |
| 0:46.6 | the latest lesson in, always look past the headline. |
| 0:51.6 | Always look past the headline, because one of the headlines I saw this morning on IRobot, which is the |
| 0:57.1 | maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaner, was this, IRobot tops Top's first-quarter earnings estimates, |
| 1:04.1 | Upps view on tax gain. |
| 1:06.6 | Well, that's good. |
| 1:07.8 | All that sounds good. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah, yeah, but. |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah, but. |
| 1:11.7 | But, top-line revenue was like, shares of high robot are down 20%. |
| 1:17.0 | Yes, so this, you know, everything that goes up must come down. This is had a fine run. It went public back in 2005 at 24 |
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