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AT&T just might make for the best stock even though it's not the best telecom company.

Hello and welcome to the Barron Streetwise Podcast. I'm Jack Howe.

And the voice you just heard, that's Peter Sepino.

He's an analyst at Wolf Research,

and he recently upgraded AT&T, which isn't all that popular on Wall Street, to an

outperform rating. We'll hear why. We'll also collect Peter's thoughts on the Peltz

proxy fight for Disney. There's a guy named Nelson Peltz. He's known for

slashing costs in the cookie business and he says that Disney is doing it wrong and he can do it better and he wants a board seat, too in fact,

and there's a vote coming up.

We'll get into it.

Listening in is our audio producer Jackson. Hi Jackson. Hi Jackson. Hi Jack.

I want to get into AT&T and I thought I would begin by describing the corporate history and I opened up an infographic of that and I don't know

I opened up an infographic of that and I sent you a link do you see it there?

Oh yeah, I don't know I don't know where to begin.

What do you what how would you describe this thing?

This looks like one of those species origin of the species

chart that begins with like the single cell organism at the top and then you have

the entire diversity of life on earth.

It looks to me like, like, I like to think that I understand the rules of football.

Like, you know, there's, there you got some runny guys and there's some catchy guys and there's one throwy guy and you got a

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