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Squawk on the Street

Earnings Parade, Activism Spotlight: Exclusive With Starboard Value CEO Jeff Smith 10/22/24

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber explored market reaction to a slew of earnings reports, including results from Verizon, 3M, GE Aerospace and General Motors. In a CNBC Exclusive, David interviewed Starboard Value CEO Jeff Smith at the 13D Monitor Active-Passive Investor Summit. They discussed the activist investor's push for changes at Pfizer and Kenvue. With Election Day just two weeks away, The anchors reacted to what legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink are saying about the race for the White House. Also in focus: Apple-Nvidia market cap battle. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Market Moving Insight and Analysis joined Jim Kramer, David Faber, and me, Carl Kintanilla,

0:04.9

on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the Street.

0:14.9

Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintania with Jim Kramer

0:18.5

at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. David Fabers at 13D monitors active passive investor summit in New York. Meantime futures under some pressure amid this global bond sell-off. Ten-year yield briefly pierces 420. Meantime, Q3 earnings rolling in. Got some raised guidance out of GE, RTX, 3M, and others. Our roadmap begins with the earnings

0:38.1

blitz. We're going to hit the numbers out of those companies, including Verizon as well and GE

0:42.5

Aerospace. Invita inching closer to Apple's market cap, aiming to claim the crown as the world's

0:47.7

most valuable company. And later on this hour, Faber is going to sit down with Starboards Jeff

0:52.4

Smith, talk about his latest moves,

0:54.6

including those involving Kenview and Pfizer.

0:57.8

First, though, let's begin with this morning's barrage of earnings.

1:00.9

Is the headline GM or not?

1:03.4

I think it might be GE, and I want to take the other side of the trade, GE Aerospace,

1:06.7

had unbelievably good numbers.

1:07.9

Larry Colp delivered once again.

1:09.8

I think that people don't understand

1:11.8

if there's any slowdown at all. I mean, there was one bit of, because of Boeing, there's some

1:19.2

issues, but I think I see right through them. Defense was not as strong as I'd like. But down 11,

1:24.4

I mean, come on. I mean, this is like an insult to what Larry is built here.

1:29.3

I want to take the other side of the trade on that one.

1:32.4

Verizon, no.

1:33.9

Verizon's just too hard for me.

1:35.3

I don't know.

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