“Let’s check the balance sheet.”
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🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Shares of Marriott International and Under Armour fall on disappointing (and unsurprising) 1st-quarter reports. Ron Gross analyzes both companies and shares why checking a company’s balance sheet is more important than usual. Plus, we dip into the Fool Mailbag and discuss Quidel’s 25% rise on emergency approval from the FDA on the company’s Covid-19 antigen test.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Market Foolery is brought to you by Molecule. |
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| 0:17.6 | It's Monday, May 11th. Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Chris Hill. |
| 0:24.7 | Joining me today from another state |
| 0:27.4 | because that's how we're rolling these days. |
| 0:29.3 | It's Ron Gross. |
| 0:30.0 | Good to see you, my friend. |
| 0:31.1 | Good to see you, Chris. |
| 0:32.2 | How are you? I am doing pretty well. We've got some |
| 0:37.3 | earnings. We've got some I don't want to get my hopes up but we've got some encouraging news on the health front |
| 0:44.7 | encouraging is the right word. |
| 0:46.3 | Exciting, yes. |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah, we're going to dip into the full mail bag too, but we're going to start with Marriott |
| 0:52.3 | because Marriott International, net income in the first quarter a year ago, was |
| 1:00.1 | $375 million. And this year year it's $31 million. |
| 1:07.1 | It's still profitable. |
| 1:08.7 | It is still profitable. |
| 1:10.7 | Marriott is also laying off tens of thousands of people. |
| 1:14.0 | What do you see when you look at a massive hotel company like Marietta? |
| 1:21.0 | Payne, and you know what? |
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