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The Compound and Friends

Lessons from Tesla Short Squeeze: What Are Your Thoughts? (with Josh and Michael)

The Compound and Friends

Josh Brown

Investing, Business News, News, Business

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this edition of What Are Your Thoughts, Michael Batnick and Josh Brown discuss: * YouTube revenue growth is on fire, but who gets the money? * Netflix vs Cable Subs - crossover imminent! * The short squeeze in Tesla stock is probably the largest in the history of the stock market. * The stock market is recovering from its worst week in a while * What should investors make of the Coronavirus that seems to be roiling cross-border trade with China and the rest of the world? * Amazon earnings * Michael and Josh on the Super Bowl, did the right team win? 1-click play or subscribe on your favorite podcast app   Subscribe to the mini podcast on iTunes or Spotify    Enable our Alexa skill here - "Alexa, play the Compound show!"   Talk to us about your portfolio or financial plan here:  http://ritholtzwealth.com/   Obviously nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice just for you or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. Please see this 3,000 word terms & conditions disclaimer: https://thereformedbroker.com/terms-and-conditions/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, what's up I'm downtown Josh Brown.

0:02.0

Welcome to an all new, what are your thoughts?

0:04.8

Michael doesn't know what I'm going to ask him about.

0:07.0

I have some ideas.

0:09.0

You might be able to guess this week,

0:10.7

but I don't know what you're going to ask me.

0:12.1

So stick around, let's see what happens.

0:15.8

Okay, can I go first? Go ahead. Okay, the first one I want to ask you about,

0:19.7

we're going to, we're going to start with Google Alphabet reported earnings last night.

0:27.0

For the first time ever, they broke out YouTube revenue, which I thought was interesting given how much time we've been spending on YouTube.

0:35.0

So they did $11 billion in ad sales on YouTube in 2018, and they said last year it was like 15 billion.

0:42.0

So a lot of growth growth a lot of money

0:44.0

being made apparently but then they said that most of the money goes to the

0:48.2

content creators will you surprise well they didn't but they didn't

0:51.2

break out what percentage was they didn't say but they

0:53.5

said most was so is most like 60% or 90% oh maybe it's there it depends on the

1:00.4

Creator I don't know so 11 billion to 15 billion pretty good it's pretty

1:06.1

fast growth yeah they bought it for a billion dollars YouTube or 1.6 or

1:11.9

something so it's So it's pretty astonishing.

1:15.0

Pretty good.

1:16.0

And then they get into the cloud revenue, they're on a $10 billion run rate in cloud.

1:21.0

I was surprised how far behind they still are versus Amazon is 40 and

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