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CG: Will a Labor Dispute Derail Endeavor’s Upcoming IPO?

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Endeavor, the world’s largest and longest running talent agency and owner of the UFC, recently filed its S-1 to go public. At the same time, an ongoing feud between the Writers Guild of America and major talent agencies, including Endeavor, has reached a fever pitch. Motley Fool Contributor Asit Sharma joins the show to break down the business, its prospects, and the threat posed by ongoing WGA dispute.

Stocks Mentioned: EDR (proposed ticker)

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Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

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Today is Tuesday, July 9th and and we're talking about the endeavor IPO.

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I'm your host Nick Saipol and today I'm joined by Molly Fool contributor,

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Osset Sharma, via Skype.

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How's it going, Osset.

0:28.2

Great, Nick, how are you?

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I'm doing great.

0:30.3

You know, I haven't had you on in a while.

0:31.8

I think last time I had you

0:32.6

on we were talking about Cracker Barrel if I'm mistaken how's your summer

0:35.1

been what you've been up to it's been wonderful did some traveling listeners

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longtime listeners may remember me talking about my son who's in Germany.

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The host family that hosted him two years ago before he started engineering school

0:48.5

sent two of their daughters, teenage daughters, to us for almost three weeks. So we still had two teenage boys in the house.

0:55.7

We had a great time, did a lot of local stuff here in Raleigh, North Carolina, tried to

0:59.7

show them our beautiful state. We also took them up to Washington, didn't have time to stop in at

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full HQ in Alexandria, went to New York. It was wonderful, but now I'm catching up. I am

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