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SOTS 2nd Hour: Coca-Cola CEO, & The State of Activist Investing w/Keith Meister, Lauren Taylor Wolfe 10/21/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Business, Investing, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A busy morning of reports as earnings season heats up: Sara Eisen, Carl Quintanilla, and David Faber kicked off the hour with key pullouts from the morning's earnings calls when it comes to tariff costs and consumer trends - before Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey joined the team to breakdown their quarter... Hear his view on demand, pricing, China, and the low-income consumer. Plus: Faber's exclusive reporting when it comes to a possible sale of Warner Brothers Discovery. Also in focus: the street's biggest names convening for 13D's annual 'Active-Passive Investor Summit' in NYC today. Catch deep dives on the state of activist investing - and where they see opportunity here - with Corvex Management CIO Keith Meister and later on, Impactive Capital's Lauren Taylor Wolfe (who argued: we're in an AI bubble here). Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Squawk in the Street. I'm Carl Kintanaia at Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange.

0:10.8

Sarah Eisen today's at the NASDAQ. And Faber is at 13D monitors active passive investor summit in New York,

0:16.4

where he's going to bring us two big interviews this hour, Corvex management founder and CIO Keith Meister

0:21.6

and Impactive Capital Managing Partner Lauren Taylor Wolf. Also ahead in just a moment, Coca-Cola

0:27.3

Chairman and CEO James Quincy will join us in a first on C&BC interview as the company beats on

0:32.1

earnings and says it's confident it can hit its 2025 goals on an interesting day for markets there where stocks are

0:39.9

up a bit bonds are down vix is up but gold is down i'm watching what what companies are saying

0:47.4

i'm listening to what companies are saying about what they're dealing with right now since we

0:50.7

don't have the economic data and we don't have the Fed speak. It's really all about earnings right now.

0:56.0

And just what kind of issues in the macroeconomy companies are dealing with.

1:01.0

Unilever was one that actually cited the shutdown as a headache for business.

1:07.0

In fact, it had to delay its spin-off of its magnum ice cream and Ben and Jerry's ice cream because of the U.S. government shutdown.

1:15.6

Why? It's a paperwork problem that they couldn't get done with the SEC.

1:21.4

Remember, they're spinning off the ice cream business.

1:23.4

They wanted to trade in both Amsterdam and in New York.

1:26.7

And so that was the first instance I really saw where a company is impacted by the shutdown.

1:31.9

But as far as some of the other impacts that we're hearing from earnings season so far, GM tariffs better than expected, at least on the full year guidance.

1:41.1

They said that it was going to be $3.5 to $4. half billion now instead of a four to five billion dollar hit on tariffs. And here's what the CEO said in the call, just to give you a little flavor about what they're dealing with. So earnings, they said, included a gross tariff impact of $1.1 billion that was in the quarter, a little less than we expected due to lower import volumes from Korea. We were able to offset more than 30% of this amount through go-to-market footprint and cost initiatives.

2:06.6

The administration's recently announced expansion of the MSRP tariff offset broadens the scope of parts eligibility for the program

2:12.6

and will make U.S. vehicle production more competitive while we work to adjust our supply chains on heavy duty tariffs,

2:19.3

the impacts to GM will be minimal.

2:22.3

I just highlighted that one to show, Carl, that it's complicated,

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