Amazon-Whole Foods: Now What?
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The Motley Fool
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Amazon’s buying Whole Foods for $42 a share. So why is Whole Foods’ stock trading above $43? Jason Moser analyzes the potential for a competing bid, what shareholders need to know, and why Kroger isn’t dead yet. Plus we discuss the money behind live sports and the bid for TV ratings as the U.S. Open posts its 2nd-lowest audience ever.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Market Foolery is brought to you by Thumbtac. |
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| 0:11.0 | to event planning to personal wellness and more. |
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| 0:16.0 | It's Monday, June 19th. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Market Fullry. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today for a million dollar portfolio |
| 0:23.4 | of Jason Moser. Happy Monday. Happy Father's Day, day after. |
| 0:27.4 | Day after. Yeah. Good weekend. We'll get into the Father's Day. |
| 0:30.8 | Why not? We'll chat a little bit about that. |
| 0:33.0 | We're dads. |
| 0:35.0 | We're dads. |
| 0:36.0 | We got to start though with where we were on Friday in the wake of the Amazon buying Whole Food story just in case you missed it. |
| 0:45.0 | Just in case you didn't catch Motley Full Money, |
| 0:48.0 | Amazon bought Whole Foods for the cool sum of $13.7 billion. |
| 0:54.4 | And if you haven't, we're not going to go over every part of the deal |
| 0:58.1 | because we did that on Motley Full Money, |
| 0:59.5 | but if you haven't listened to it, |
| 1:00.5 | I highly recommend that you listen to the opening. We dedicated the entire opening segment of the radio |
| 1:05.9 | show to this deal it's about 12 minutes it's a really I think good conversation |
| 1:10.6 | covering a lot of aspects of the deal and And by the way, for a few of you out |
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