Big Telecoms vs. Deadpool

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Reynolds is joining the T-Mobile team, as Verizon and AT&T adjust.

(0:21) Tim Beyers discusses:
- T-Mobile buys the parent company of Mint Mobile in a cash and stock deal worth $1.3 billion
- How (and when) Mint's business could be accretive to T-Mobile
- Why the ripple effect from Silicon Valley Bank's situation will hit potential IPOs and what it means for investors

(14:05) Our stock version of March Madness continues! Kirsten Guerra and Jason Moser face off to make the case on why their stock is a better buy right now.

Companies discussed: TMUS, VZ, T, SIVB, GM, TSLA, OM

Host: Chris Hill
Guests: Tim Beyers, Kirsten Guerra, Jason Moser
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Dan Boyd

Transcript

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0:00.0	Breaking news, something good has finally happened for Ryan Reynolds.
0:10.2	Motley Fool Money starts now.
0:11.6	I'm Chris Hill joining me today, Motley Fool's Senior Analyst Tim Byers.
0:24.4	Thanks for being here.
0:25.4	Thanks for having me, fully caffeinated, ready to go.
0:29.4	Likewise, we're going to take a break, a slight break from the banks today.
0:34.3	Just for today, trust me, there is more bank talk coming later in the week on this show.
0:38.3	But I want to talk to you about T-Mobile because T-Mobile is buying Kainacorp, a company
0:45.0	I had never heard of before.
0:46.2	It is a cash and stock deal worth $1.3 billion.
0:50.9	And Kainacorp is probably better known as the parent company of Mint Mobile.
0:57.6	The startup, the Ryan Reynolds backed startup telecom.
1:04.1	I'm curious what you think of this deal because the reaction from the market seems to be
1:09.3	a positive one on the day that, as you and I are talking, the market is down overall.
1:15.4	Shares of T-Mobile are up slightly.
1:17.4	This seems to be getting a thumbs up.
1:20.1	And given the size of Mint Mobile, given the size of this deal, I'm assuming regulators
1:25.7	are going to give this a thumbs up as well.
1:29.3	I would guess so.
1:30.3	And how can you not like it?
1:32.2	Mint T-Mobile gets deadpool.
1:34.7	Right.
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