“How smart do you need to be??”
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🗓️ 8 February 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger is leaving in mid-2018. How strong a successor does he need? Investor-at-large Tim Hanson analyzes the state of the Magic Kingdom, as well as the latest earnings from Zillow and Panera Bread. Plus we delve further into Snap’s upcoming IPO and discuss underrated soups! Thanks to Thumbtack for supporting The Motley Fool. Hire local, skilled pros for just about anything at thumbtack.com today.
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| 0:15.0 | It's Wednesday, February 8th. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today. |
| 0:22.0 | Investor at Large large Tim Hanson. |
| 0:24.0 | Thanks for being here. My pleasure. |
| 0:26.0 | We've got earnings. We've got Zillow. We've got Panera Bread. |
| 0:30.0 | Jason Moser and I were talking the other day about Snaps, S1 filing to go public. |
| 0:35.6 | Curious to get your thoughts on that? |
| 0:37.6 | It's entertaining reading. |
| 0:38.6 | It is entertaining. |
| 0:41.6 | It's a page turn. Is it really a page turner though. It keeps your interest. Okay, it has some highlights. We got to start with Walt Disney though. First quarter profits came in higher higher than expected, revenue, overall revenue was light and I mean you |
| 0:57.4 | look at the different divisions for Disney and Parks and Resorts looked pretty good. |
| 1:02.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.2 | Pretty much every other division was down. |
| 1:05.0 | And I know that ESPN has been the narrative for Disney |
| 1:10.8 | and the falling subscribership there. But just on a percentage basis, the |
| 1:15.9 | consumer products division down about, down more than 20%. I know that it doesn't bring |
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