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Burger Wars Are Heating Up

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🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

McDonald’s announces a big push in China the same day it gets a new competitor: Chipotle. Plus we analyze Movado Group’s struggles and reminisce about some of our favorite April Fool’s Day pranks.

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0:00.0

It's Thursday March 31st. Welcome to Mark Fulry. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today

0:06.3

from Motley Full Funds, Bill Barker. Happy Thursday. Thank you. Good to be here.

0:10.8

Happy end of the quarter? It's exciting, isn't it?

0:14.0

Happier quarter as we look at at the end then it seemed to be in the middle.

0:18.5

Right.

0:19.5

Four weeks into this quarter, it was like, oh God, when is this quarter going to end but now it's like

0:23.8

oh it's all right up a little bit they're doing all right market did a little bit of

0:27.2

good during the quarter we've got some we've got the Burger Wars heating up. We're going to get to the Burger Wars and share a few thoughts

0:38.9

about April, but let's start with a company we really don't focus on all that much but reporting earnings this morning.

0:45.0

Lovato Group.

0:47.0

Fourth quarter profits fell 22% and the forecast for 2016, let me put it this way, when they were forecasting this year,

0:57.6

they talked about, they used the word challenging.

1:00.6

It's a challenging environment.

1:02.0

Anytime, I don't care what the business is, when the forecast includes the phrase

1:06.5

challenging environment, the reaction on Wall Street is not going to be positive and it wasn't.

1:12.4

The stock down about 8% this morning. This is a

1:17.3

pretty well-regarded brand but this has been a rough couple of years for the luxury watchmaker.

1:24.7

Yeah, for luxury watchmakers in general, right?

1:29.5

And Movada's actually done quite a bit better over the last few years than some of its larger,

1:36.2

better known competitors of Swatch and Fossil.

1:41.0

But I, do you wear a watch? No, I don't. Have you ever? Not for a very very long time.

1:48.1

No, I never have. I'm gonna like maybe I don't know maybe in high school or something

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