Barnes & Noble For Sale
MarketFoolery
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4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The bookseller’s for sale, but with the price 20% higher today than it was yesterday who’s going to buy? Seth Jayson analyzes Barnes & Noble’s quandary, and the latest results from Constellation Brands. Seth shares why companies facing tariffs (e.g., Titan International) are on his radar this upcoming earnings season, and we share the news of our upcoming listener meetup in Denver!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Market Foolery is brought to you by Slack. |
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| 0:13.0 | It's Thursday, October 4th. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Market Foolry. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio, Seth Jason. |
| 0:21.0 | Thanks for being here. You're welcome. |
| 0:24.0 | Sorry to pull you away from lunch. |
| 0:26.2 | We had a time mix-up. |
| 0:27.8 | There was a mix-up. |
| 0:28.8 | I was... |
| 0:29.8 | You were mid-meal. |
| 0:30.8 | I was like, oh, did I forget to tell you the time to come in the studio? |
| 0:33.4 | Yeah Chimney Changa and refried beans reheated into my craw. We've got some earnings |
| 0:39.8 | news we got to start with the stock of the day, and miraculously the stock of the day |
| 0:45.4 | is Barnes and Noble. |
| 0:47.6 | Shares of Barnes and Noble up more than 20 percent today on the news that the bookseller is looking to sell itself. |
| 0:56.7 | They're basically putting together a select committee to evaluate offers. |
| 1:02.1 | Shouldn't they have done this a while ago? |
| 1:04.0 | Well, they tried to do it a couple of different times. |
| 1:06.0 | They tried back in 2011. |
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