Preview: Berkshire-Hathaway Annual Mtg.
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🗓️ 29 April 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Panera Bread stumbles, Twitter drops, and Lumber Liquidators appears to be in freefall. We analyze the latest earnings reports, plus give a preview of the upcoming Berkshire-Hathaway annual meeting. To get a free copy of our e-book on Warren Buffett, just email warren@fool.com.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 29th. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome to Market Fullery. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Stock Advisor and Motley Full One, Brendan Matthews |
| 0:09.4 | and from Champion Shares Pro Mike Olson. |
| 0:11.4 | Happy Wednesday, gentlemen. |
| 0:12.7 | Hello, happy Wednesday. |
| 0:15.4 | We're going to talk about the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. |
| 0:17.9 | We're going to do a little preview with that |
| 0:19.2 | because you guys are just, I believe in a matter of hours, |
| 0:22.3 | going to be getting on planes to head to Omaha for that. |
| 0:25.8 | But before we get to that, earnings Palusa rolls on and if there were a color of the day for this episode, the color would be red as we talk about |
| 0:36.6 | Panera bread lumber liquidators, but we will start with Twitter. |
| 0:41.2 | First quarter of revenue was up 74% from a year ago that is still lower than expected. |
| 0:47.2 | The company lowered guidance for the rest of the fiscal year and not surprisingly, the stock down more than 20%. |
| 0:55.0 | Brendan I'll just start with you. |
| 0:57.2 | How bad was this because this seems like among other things like Twitter the company or I should say Twitter the business |
| 1:05.8 | and in particular Twitter's management is not getting the benefit of the |
| 1:09.8 | doubt from anybody. No and it didn't help that their earnings were leaked an hour |
| 1:15.0 | before they were supposed to an hour before the market closed. I think it's just |
| 1:19.7 | a this isn't a new and an emerging business and predicting it short term I think is very difficult |
| 1:25.6 | Long term. We don't know what will happen with Twitter. I think there's obviously a lot of a lot of potential |
| 1:30.1 | But it's a 26 billion dollar company. So people are expecting a lot and if management doesn't live up to that every quarter |
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