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Time To Buy Golf Stocks?

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes you need to stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball. (00:21) Jason Moser discusses: - EU regulators approving Microsoft's deal to buy Activision Blizzard (but investors being skeptical) - Peloton recalling more than 2 million exercise bikes - Why he's keeping a close eye on Home Depot's earnings report on Tuesday (13:00) Nick Sciple joins Jason to discuss the business of golf and analyze two publicly-traded golf companies. Companies discussed: MSFT, ATVI, SONY, PTON, HD, WMT, TJX, TGT, MODG, GOLF Host: Chris Hill Guests: Jason Moser, Nick Sciple Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Grab your clubs. We're heading to Bushwood for a closer look at the business of golf.

0:10.2

Motley Full Money starts now.

0:11.6

I'm Chris Hill joining me today. Motley Full Senior LSJ St. Moser. Good to see you.

0:25.6

Happy Monday. Happy Monday. We're going to start with some news that broke this morning.

0:31.4

Regulators in the European Union have approved Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision

0:37.5

Blizzard. They said the concessions that Microsoft have offered around cloud gaming are enough

0:43.6

to alleviate any antitrust concerns. I will just remind everyone that it was just last month that

0:49.9

regulators in the UK basically said the opposite and they blocked the deal. They stand by that

0:55.9

decision here in the US. The Federal Trade Commission has yet to make a formal ruling.

1:01.4

But Jason, you look at both stocks and it looks like investors have decided they are going with

1:09.0

the UK on this one. They don't think the deal is going through because shares of Activision Blizzard

1:13.8

are basically, you know, they're up half a percent on this news.

1:19.1

Yeah. Well, I think that's because ultimately, you know, this has not been solved. I mean,

1:25.2

I think the first thing that came to mind when I saw this headline, it just made me think of

1:30.4

the office in the episode with SNP SNP SNP SNP SNP SNP. If you're a fan of the office,

1:35.6

then you know what I'm talking about. I mean, what are you doing? Seriously?

1:41.5

You know, yeah, the UK competition and markets authority from, I guess, a couple of weeks ago,

1:47.2

said they opposed the deal. Now you've got the European Commission, which is the

1:51.9

use executive arm, saying that they are okay with the deal as long as certain remedies are met.

1:58.4

Primarily, the remedies are what we've discussed before is making sure that rivals have

2:05.3

access to that content for at least 10 years, right? Because there's two dynamics that

2:10.9

really come into play with this deal. You've got the Microsoft hardware side of it with Xbox,

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