Disney vs. DreamWorks
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🗓️ 6 August 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Walt Disney single-handedly drags down the Dow. DreamWorks Animation continues to struggle. Zillow bounces back on stronger-than-expected 2nd-quarter results. And Lumber Liquidators drops to its lowest point in nearly 4 years.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday August 5th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Motley Full Funds Bill Barker. Happy Wednesday. |
| 0:09.0 | Thank you. Good to be here. It is a happy Wednesday because we were just reading the onion. |
| 0:13.4 | Yes, yes. And if you're... I don't do that enough these days. Yeah. |
| 0:18.0 | You know, it is like I remember old things from the onion and go and reread them. |
| 0:23.2 | But for those who are listening who may not be familiar with the onion, you should be |
| 0:27.5 | familiar with you. |
| 0:28.5 | What's wrong with you? |
| 0:29.5 | Well, you know, we've got some younger listeners. Maybe they're just unfamiliar. The onion's been around a long time, but it is a started as a satirical newspaper, printed newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin, and now just the the website the onion.com and just |
| 0:45.0 | some brilliant brilliant and brilliantly funny comedy to be found on the onion. |
| 0:50.4 | That's true. But that's not why we're here. We're here because it's |
| 0:54.4 | earning season and we got a lot to talk about and let's start with let's start with |
| 1:00.4 | today's reminder that the Dow Jones industrial average is an average Let's Then it can drag down whatever is happening, whatever positive thing is happening |
| 1:15.9 | with the other 29 and that is absolutely happening today with the Walt Disney |
| 1:19.6 | company. Revenue was a little light for the quarter. There were some good things in the |
| 1:26.0 | quarter, we'll get to those, but the revenue was light and the guidance for the |
| 1:31.8 | television division which includes the ESPN, that was lowered and that I think |
| 1:38.0 | is why the stock is down around 7-8 percent today. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, I think that's, you're right. That seems to be the narrative that's going |
| 1:44.9 | out there as to why the stock price is down what it is today off of a recent high, all-time high for the company. |
| 1:54.0 | So keep in mind, it's still been a very good year |
| 1:56.6 | for the shareholders of Disney, even including today's action. |
| 2:01.1 | But ESPN is beginning to see some of the effects of |
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