MarketFoolery: 04.14.2011

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🗓️ 14 April 2011

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Short-term car-rental company Zip Car and McDonald's South American franchisee Arcos Dorados make their Wall Street debuts. Which IPO holds more promise for investors? And Hasbro reports a sharp decline in first-quarter profits. What's behind the trouble in toyland?

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, April 14th, and this is Market Fullry.
0:05.0	I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio today from Motley Fool Hidden Gems, Charlie Travers,
0:10.0	from Stock Advisor Jason Moser, and for Motley Fool Global Games,
0:13.8	Tim Hanson.
0:14.4	Guys, good to see you.
0:15.4	Thank you, Chris.
0:16.4	Couple of hot IPOs and some trouble in Toyland, but let's start with the first hot
0:21.3	IPO, Zipcar, the car sharing service went public this morning.
0:25.8	Shares were priced at $18 and soared more than 50%.
0:30.3	Charlie Travers, I will start with you.
0:32.0	Does Zipcar's business justify the stock price?
0:35.6	Chris, I have a policy of not buying into hot IPOs on story stocks and I'm not going to make
0:40.8	an reception in the case of Nipcar.
0:43.0	Kill Joy.
0:44.0	Yeah, haider.
0:46.0	This is a capital intensive business that's as of yet still not running a profit.
0:51.0	And I'd like to see things settle down for a bit on the share price.
0:55.0	And you know, it's that said, this is a company I like a lot.
0:58.7	You know, I use Zipcar personally, you know, I'm sure everybody on the, you know, radio here could listen and, you know,
1:04.8	relate to this.
1:05.8	It was about a year and a half ago, my wife and I had a 10-year-old car and you get that repair
1:09.2	bill where you make the tough decision.
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