meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
MarketFoolery

Anybody Got $90 Billion To Spare?

MarketFoolery

The Motley Fool

Money, Business, Motley, Business News, Stocks, News, Investing, Market, Fool

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Comcast looks for more cash to bid for 21st-Century Fox’s assets. Will it take $90 billion to outbid Disney? Andy Cross analyzes the latest report on the battle for the future of entertainment. Plus, we discuss Conagra buying Pinnacle Foods to take a larger share of the frozen food market and reflect on The Motley Fool’s upcoming 25th anniversary.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

It's Wednesday, June 27th.

0:04.0

Welcome to Market Fullry.

0:05.0

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today.

0:07.0

Andy Cross, in the flesh.

0:09.0

Thanks for being here.

0:10.0

Hey Chris, it's always a pleasure.

0:12.0

There is a big deal going on in the prepared foods world and we're going to get to that

0:17.3

deal in a second but I was looking through my notes and notice that the last two Wednesday episodes of Market Foolery

0:26.3

started with us talking about the whole Disney Fox comcasting.

0:30.8

And I kind of feel compelled to start there again because there is more news

0:34.5

and I wanted to get your take on this and it's the report in the Wall Street Journal that

0:38.7

Comcast and this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's watching this

0:41.8

Comcast is looking to shore up cash because they want to make a bid to top Disney's $71 billion

0:50.2

bid.

0:51.4

So that's not surprising. The number that got floated in this article that they may be

0:55.7

looking for as much as 90 billion dollars? I mean... It's big money man but you can get it yeah you think it's going to go that

1:06.2

well I tell you what um boy it would make Comcast one of the most levered

1:10.9

companies in the United States.

1:12.6

So not that they don't have the cash flow

1:14.9

to be able to pay for the debt, but it would seriously,

1:18.7

I mean Moody's already come out and said

1:21.4

that that would put a that would put a significant ding into the

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Motley Fool, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Motley Fool and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.