Wildcard: Investin’ in Wrasslin’
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Since taking the helm of the predecessor to the WWE in 1982, Vince McMahon has built a global powerhouse in sports entertainment, virtually monopolizing his industry. Today, the company is at a turning point in its business, as cable gives way to streaming as the primary means to deliver content. Motley Fool analysts Bill Mann and Jim Gillies join host Nick Sciple to break down WWE’s business and discuss why it could make a compelling investment today.
Stocks Mentioned: WWE, DIS, CMCSA
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyple. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today |
| 0:16.0 | we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. Wild Card Wednesday. |
| 0:20.6 | And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Nick Saipel. |
| 0:30.0 | This week we're talking about one of my favorite businesses and that's the |
| 0:33.0 | W. W. W. E. It's got everything you want in a business story. You've got nostalgia, you've |
| 0:36.9 | got drama, you've got a larger than life founder, and you've got a company that's |
| 0:40.2 | crossing over into a whole new era for its business. But is this a story that's worth investing in? |
| 0:45.6 | Molly full analysts Bill Mann and Jim Gillies are joining me this week to take a look at |
| 0:49.2 | W. W. W. as a business and as an investment. Thanks guys for joining me. Thank you, Nick. Great to have you |
| 0:55.3 | on here. As I said in the kind of intro, W-B is one of my favorite businesses to pay attention to and track. |
| 1:00.9 | You know, Russellmania is on my bucket list of kind of events to go to so when you got to get to |
| 1:05.4 | overlap you know wrestle mania with investing always a fun topic when you think |
| 1:10.4 | about w w w w w w w as a business to just first question for you all, like, is there a direct comp for this business? |
| 1:16.7 | Like can you think of one that like would be a comparison? |
| 1:20.3 | You know, I think you've got to think of it. I think you've got to think of it as as being a rival with the major sports |
| 1:28.8 | brands. I think if you and if you look at the numbers for W. W. W. E. |
| 1:33.4 | they actually are somewhat close in viewership to the NBA in terms of television. |
| 1:40.8 | In other ways, you almost have to think of it as being a library of characters. |
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