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Wall Street Breakfast

Chipotle fires up investors with 50-for-1 stock split

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) announces 50-for-1 stock split. (00:26) Saudi Arabia plans to pour $40B into AI technology: report. (01:19) Nordstrom (JWN) jumps on report of new takeover offer from founding family. (02:14)

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0:00.0

Welcome to See King Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:08.0

Good morning. Today is Wednesday, March 20th. I'm Julie Morgan. It's time to cut the burrito at CMG.

0:15.7

Saudi Arabia is already rich in oil. Are they eyeing AI? And Nordstrom is a publicly traded company now, but for how long?

0:26.3

Chipotle Mexican Grill said on Tuesday its board had approved a 50 for one split of its common

0:32.2

stock.

0:33.0

CMG said it plans to seek shareholder approval for the amendment at its upcoming annual

0:38.4

meeting on June 6th.

0:40.1

If the amendment is approved shareholders of record as of June 18th will receive 49 additional shares for each share held, which will be distributed after market closed on June 25th.

0:51.8

The company's shares are expected to begin trading on a post- split basis at the market open on Wednesday, June 26th.

0:59.0

Chipotle also announced a special one-time equity grant for all restaurant general managers,

1:05.5

as well as crew members with more than 20 years of service.

1:09.4

C.M.G closed Tuesday at $ 2,797.

1:13.5

And pre-market, the stock is up more than 5%.

1:18.9

Saudi Arabia is apparently creating

1:21.4

a fund worth about $40 billion to invest in artificial intelligence.

1:26.5

According to the New York Times citing three people briefed on the plan, the Middle

1:30.9

Eastern nation is serious about throwing its monetary weight into technology that is reshaping industries.

1:37.5

Over the last month, representatives of Saudi Arabia's public investment fund have discussed a potential partnership

1:44.4

with one of Silicon Valley's largest private venture capital firms and other

1:48.9

financiers. The fund would possibly make Saudi Arabia the world's largest investor in AI,

1:55.0

as it would be much larger than US venture capital firms typically amass.

2:00.0

Some Wall Street banks are reportedly helping to assemble the fund.

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