Wild market swings are good reason to take stock
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:39.7 | I mean, you know, the sort of the snack back and then, you know, oh, oh, you were a terrible |
| 0:43.9 | company. Now you're a great company. I mean, it's sort of, you could ignore that as a CEO, |
| 0:48.3 | right? But, but just they don't like to do that. It's incredible, you know, your job is to go |
| 0:53.3 | around and talk to shareholders constantly. |
| 0:58.0 | And I think what a CEO that's hating being a public market CEO would say in response to that is, you know, it's incredibly time consuming. |
| 1:08.0 | And to an extent you can't ignore the market's view of what you're doing. |
| 1:15.6 | Double-digit collapses, shares soaring on very little information. |
| 1:20.6 | This is the state of the stock market in Europe and the US during the most recent earning season. |
| 1:26.6 | To name check a few of these companies, |
| 1:28.7 | British fashion label Burberry stock soared 17%, while US payment business FI served tanked 19%. Toymaker |
| 1:38.1 | Hasbro, French trainmaker Alström, and Software Group Service Now have also swung between dramatic climbs and worrying falls. |
| 1:47.0 | For CEOs that are running these companies, a sense of quiplash is not the only concern. |
| 1:52.0 | Amid trade wars and real-life wars in the Middle East and Europe, the future is painfully uncertain, |
| 1:58.0 | but chaotic swings in their company's shares will also have an impact |
| 2:02.1 | on their ability to raise equity. In a broader sense, it's also likely to damage the appeal of |
| 2:07.3 | the public market. But what are the forces driving these moves? And is there anything companies |
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