Meet The MVFs (Most Valuable Franchises)
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🗓️ 25 April 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Facebook posts record profits in the 1st quarter, while Microsoft’s 3rd-quarter report pushes its stock to a new all-time high. Bill Mann analyzes the latest for these two tech behemoths and shares why Microsoft has the most valuable recurring-revenue franchises in the world. Plus, we wonder why Tesla shares aren’t falling further after posting a big loss in the 1st quarter, and try to make sense of Chevron and Occidental Petroleum making competing bids for Anadarko Petroleum.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, April 25th. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to Mark Fullry. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio, Bill Mann. |
| 0:09.2 | And I pause because mad props to Bill Mann for being here in the studio and mad props to our man behind the glass |
| 0:15.6 | Dan Boyd for being there because both were up late last night watching a double overtime |
| 0:21.0 | hockey game. Yes that didn't work out the way that the Washington Capitol's fans would hope. |
| 0:27.4 | I was at the game with my son, who was a train wreck this morning at six when I woke him up to send him to school. |
| 0:34.0 | One because the Carolina Hurricanes won the game and two because they won the game |
| 0:39.4 | not too long before he had to get up to go to school. |
| 0:42.9 | All credit to Carolina. |
| 0:44.2 | It was a great game. |
| 0:46.1 | They, you know, there's no question who, |
| 0:49.4 | is this a sports show? |
| 0:50.2 | Let's do a sports show. |
| 0:51.1 | Let's just break into sports. There was no question who the better team was last night. |
| 0:55.8 | You know what? We would do more sports if there was nothing going on. There's actually a lot. |
| 1:00.3 | That's right. I was about to apologize. Yeah, we're not exactly want for want for filler today. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, we've got we've got Microsoft. We've got Tesla. We've got a fascinating drama playing out in the oil industry and we will get to all of that |
| 1:15.7 | but we will start with Facebook because shares of Facebook are up 5% this morning, record |
| 1:21.4 | highs for their quarterly profits and revenue. |
| 1:25.0 | You know, this is, I was reading some of the coverage this morning, |
| 1:30.0 | I was watching some of it on CMBC and I was reminded of how personal |
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