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Comcast Spins Out Cable Networks

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4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Comcast is shedding cable networks including MSNBC, USA Network, and CNBC from the parent, and putting them in a new company, temporarily called SpinCo. (00:14) Bill Barker and Ricky Mulvey discuss: - Nvidia’s quarter and data center growth. - Why Comcast is spinning off its cable assets. - Microstrategy’s unusual bond offering. Then, (17:04) a replay of Scoreboard, hosted by Anand Chokkavelu. Matt Argersinger and Anthony Schiavone take a look at Sunbelt REIT, Eastgroup Properties. Visit our sponsor: Get $1,000 off Vanta at www.vanta.com/fool Companies discussed: NVDA, CMCSA, MSTR, EGP Host: Ricky Mulvey Guests: Bill Barker Producer: Mary Long Engineer: Rick Engdahl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Cable networks are spinning and you're listening to Motley Full Money.

0:12.2

I'm Ricky Mulvey, joined today by returning champion Bill Barker. Bill, how you doing?

0:18.0

I'm well. Thanks. How are you? I'm doing well. It's good to have you back

0:22.5

on the show, haven't seen you in a few months. We've got a little bit of Nvidia, and then I want to talk

0:27.3

about this Comcast spin-off. Dylan's going to cover this more on the Friday show, but I want to, I mean,

0:33.5

it's the biggest company by market cap, or it's consistently trading places is the biggest company by market cap.

0:39.9

And they reported earnings yesterday.

0:41.5

I think my big takeaways are that the data center business is rolling with revenue up more than 100% from the prior year.

0:49.2

And that's from a base of 14.5 billion.

0:53.4

Expectations are starting to match up to what they're doing and some investors

0:56.5

are doing a little profit taking. What stands out to you about Nvidia's quarter?

1:02.0

Well, it's a phenomenal quarter. And as you say, expectations were largely met and those that figured that NVIDIA always exceeds expectations and not

1:15.2

only exceeds them by normal amounts, but excessive amounts, might find that this one time

1:22.4

NVIDIA has only exceeded expectations by a kind of normal amount and that they have beaten expectations

1:31.0

and raised guidance, but not to the extent that has been going on in some quarters in the past.

1:37.8

And, you know, that's really a function of the law of large numbers.

1:41.8

It gets harder and harder when you start talking about

1:46.0

quarters involving $37 billion to just be, you know, increasing things by an annual rate of 100%.

1:55.9

Also, you get you get more eyes once you start getting into that trillions of dollars in market

2:00.2

cap for folks to make guesses about what kind of money you're going to make. One number I want to zero in

2:05.3

on because I think this is incredibly impressive for Nvidia. A lot of investors believe it to be

2:09.8

impressive. This is a company that makes 75% in gross margin. Have you seen anything come close to that?

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