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Peloton Needs A Wizard

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We’re talking big moves and Big Oil as earnings season continues. At (00:21) Jason Hall and Deidre Woollard break down Peloton’s CEO shift and Big Oil’s big profits. At (16:40) Tom Chivers, author of Everything Is Predictable, explains how the Bayesian theorem underlies much of modern life and investing. Companies discussed: PTON, SHEL, XOM, COP Host: Deidre Woollard Guests: Jason Hall, Tom Chivers Producer: Ricky Mulvey, Chace Przylepa Engineers: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Can the turnaround continue when the turnaround CEO leaves?

0:05.0

Motley Full Money. I'm DeJro Willard here with Motley Fool contributor

0:24.4

Jason Hall. Jason, how's your Thursday going? It's going great. It is

0:28.0

earning season. So much happening and we got a bit of a bombshell this morning.

0:31.3

We did indeed, you know, I wanted to bring you

0:35.4

wanted to talk big oil, but before we do that we've got to talk about that

0:38.3

bombshell. So Peloton, CEO Barry McCarthy, he's out. He's leaving the company after just a little over two years.

0:44.8

You know, it's so interesting he was supposed to be the guy who's going to turn it around.

0:48.4

He's got the Netflix credibility.

0:50.9

I don't know.

0:51.8

I'm wondering what's next. earning close earnings call was kind of

0:54.4

of full around about the turnaround talk we're still turning around but this turn around

0:58.8

is taking a lot longer than anyone thought it would yeah there's no doubt about it

1:02.4

and this and it certainly has gotten more complicated anyone thought it would. Yeah, there's no doubt about it.

1:03.0

And it certainly has gotten more complicated because on the surface you look at it and it feels like, hey,

1:08.9

mission accomplished at least a big part of the mission of turning the company around getting its

1:13.0

financial house in order trying to right size operations they they touted

1:16.7

being cash flow positive free cash flow positive this quarter but man the more I've been thinking about this and reading a few follow-up stories of what's going on,

1:28.0

maybe the story is more complicated than we think.

1:30.0

So here's how I'm thinking about, Tiedra.

1:32.0

So let's start with the

1:33.4

McCarthy story because we have two things right we have the leadership

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