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Class Action Lawsuit. Now What?

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🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a company you own stock in is hit with a class action lawsuit? We dip into the Fool Mailbag with MFAM Funds portfolio manager Bill Barker to discuss that topic, as well as P/E multiples and the latest surprising health study about coffee.

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, July 2nd. Welcome to Mark Fuller. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio from M-Fam Funds, Bill Barker.

0:08.0

Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me.

0:10.0

As I mentioned yesterday with Ron Gross we're we're off this week

0:16.2

basically but we don't want to we don't want to go with no episodes it's just a

0:19.8

short week it's a short week so we'll we'll be tomorrow, we'll be off Thursday, but we're here yesterday and today.

0:26.0

Yeah, go to the beach.

0:28.0

Go to the beach, take a little time off, hopefully folks get a little bit of time off.

0:31.0

Pay some attention to your family for once.

0:33.6

Stop listening to podcasts all day long.

0:35.8

Is that what you're saying?

0:37.4

That was directed at me, wasn't it?

0:38.6

I just did it.

0:40.6

We're going to dip into the full mail bag because we got a bunch of great questions.

0:45.0

Let's start with Jordan White, who writes to us from Yale University, your alma mater.

0:52.0

A fine, fine institute. If there was one. Jordan, a little

0:56.1

bit younger, he's class of 2020. A little bit. Jordan writes, I was hoping you could

1:00.3

explain PE multiples a bit. I was confused why Shake Shack's multiple

1:04.5

was super high why would a stocks earnings per share go down when their stock

1:08.8

price goes up to math question so clearly it's not for me.

1:13.0

There, yeah, so the PE multiple is one data point made up of two data points, the price and the earnings, and it's a shorthand to get into part of the story on a stock.

1:29.9

So if a stock is trading at 20 times earnings and the market's 20 times earnings and okay

1:36.4

it seems like it sounds like sort of an average amount of enthusiasm for that company

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