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Is a Monster Merger Brewing?

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🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Jay Powell gets nominated for another term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Cerence shares drop 20% on guidance. Jason Moser analyzes those stories and reports that Monster Beverage and Constellation Brands are engaged in merger talks.

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0:00.0

It's Monday November 22nd, welcome to Marketfoolery, I'm Chris Cell with me today, Jason

0:07.2

Mouser.

0:08.2

Good to see you.

0:09.7

Good to see you, and Gobble Gobble, happy Thanksgiving week, I'm already so excited

0:14.8

I can smell the turkey, Chris.

0:17.4

Yes, I am the same, I am the same.

0:21.9

But in the meantime, before we get to the turkey, we have a potential merger in the beverage

0:26.0

industry, and it looks like Jay Powell is going to be keeping his job, but we're going

0:30.4

to start with the stock of the day.

0:33.1

Sarant's the automotive AI company wrapped up its fiscal year with fourth quarter profits

0:38.0

in revenue higher than expected, but the guidance for 2022 is sending shares of Sarant's

0:44.2

down 20% today.

0:46.6

How bad is this guidance?

0:48.2

Well, I'm glad you brought that up because that is the reason for the selling.

0:53.5

And it's not as bad, I think, as the market would have you believe, but yeah, the stock

0:58.2

is down due to guidance, if you look at the guide for the quarter of 91 to 96 million dollars

1:04.1

in revenue, the market was expecting something more in the neighborhood of 100 million dollars.

1:08.2

And it's also on the lower end for the full year.

1:11.7

Not by much, but enough to where, listen, if you have a stock price based on a certain level

1:16.5

of expectations, when those expectations change, the stock price is sure to follow, particularly

1:21.7

with these growth stocks that aren't keying in necessarily on profitability as much

1:27.1

in the near-term as they build out the business.

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