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Wall Street Breakfast

Home Depot reportedly makes move on GMS

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business, Investing, Business News, News

3.8950 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Home Depot (HD) makes its own bid for GMS - report. (00:25) Trump to decide on Iran in two weeks; Tehran reportedly rushing to export oil. (01:04) SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is said to propose $1 trillion U.S. AI hub to TSMC (TSM) and Trump team. (01:45)

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:08.0

It is so great to have you here on this Friday, June 20th. I'm Julie Morgan.

0:13.9

Bidding reportedly heats up for GMS. Trump puts a timeline on whether an Iran strike will happen,

0:20.0

and SoftBank is reportedly dreaming

0:22.5

big in Arizona.

0:25.1

Home Depot has reportedly made an offer for GMS.

0:28.7

This follows QXO's bid on Wednesday for GMS for $95.20 per share for a transaction

0:35.7

value of $5 billion.

0:38.1

The Wall Street Journal reported that Home Depot's offer is unclear at this point.

0:42.9

GMS distributes wallboards, ceiling, steel framing, and construction products,

0:48.0

as well as commercial and residential building materials.

0:51.3

It operates through tool, sales, rental, and service centers, as well as a

0:56.7

network of distribution centers. GMS is up 19% in pre-market action. President Trump will decide

1:05.4

within the next two weeks if the U.S. should launch an attack on Iran, pressuring Tehran to the negotiating table for a nuclear deal.

1:13.8

The president said in a message delivered by the press secretary that based on the fact that

1:18.6

there is a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near

1:24.1

future, that he'll make his decision whether or not to go within the next two

1:28.4

weeks. The deadline comes as the escalating Israel-Iran conflict enters its second week. Israel struck

1:35.9

100 targets in Iran, including nuclear sites on Thursday. Iran continues to launch missiles and

1:42.7

drones at Israel.

1:59.4

Masayoshi Sun is looking to team up with Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing to realize what could be his biggest bet yet, a trillion-dollar industrial complex in Arizona to build robots and artificial intelligence.

2:05.0

Bloomberg reported that the founder of SoftBank envisions a version of the vast manufacturing hub of China's Shenzhen that would bring back high-tech manufacturing to the U.S.

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