Guidance 101
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🗓️ 19 July 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Should companies offer quarterly guidance? What are the incentives in place for Wall Street analysts? Jim Mueller and Aaron Bush break down what investors should know about the guidance game. Plus we dig into IBM’s latest quarter, Chipotle’s latest uncertainty, and the potential merger in the cable networks industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Herries for supporting this episode of Market Foolery. |
| 0:02.2 | Get your free trial set including a razor handle, five blade cartridge and shaved gel. |
| 0:06.4 | Go to Harry's.com slash Fool. |
| 0:08.4 | It's Wednesday, July 19th. |
| 0:12.2 | Welcome to Market. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today |
| 0:15.0 | from Stock Advisor and Motley Full Options, |
| 0:18.0 | Jim Mueller, and from Rule Breaker's Aaron Bush. |
| 0:20.0 | Happy Wednesday, Jents. |
| 0:22.0 | Hey Chris. Happy Wednesday. Isn't it nice to be in an air-conditioned studio on a day? |
| 0:25.0 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:27.0 | Look, it's hot in the DC area, but this is one of those weeks that it's going to break some records. |
| 0:32.0 | Well, it's going to break some records. I'll just wait till Friday. |
| 0:34.0 | You know what? |
| 0:35.0 | That'll be okay. |
| 0:36.0 | I'll be right here in an air condition studio. |
| 0:38.0 | I don't know where to begin today. |
| 0:40.0 | We've got earnings, we've got a potential media merger. |
| 0:43.0 | Any one of the stories we're talking about today could be the lead story, but we'll start with the single biggest |
| 0:48.4 | mover in the Dow Jones industrial average today, and that is IBM. Second quarter profits came in higher |
| 0:54.5 | than expected but overall revenue fell for the 21st consecutive quarter. |
| 1:01.0 | Jim we're in year six. That's not a record you want to keep. We're |
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