Worst Acquisition Ever?
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🗓️ 15 July 2015
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We analyze 2nd-quarter earnings from Bank of America, Delta Airlines & Yum Brands. Plus we dip into the Fool Mailbag and attempt to place BofA’s purchase of Countrywide on the list of “Worst Acquisitions Ever”.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, July 15th. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome to Market Foolry. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today |
| 0:06.3 | from Motley Fool Funds, Bill Barker. |
| 0:08.2 | Happy Wednesday. |
| 0:09.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:10.2 | It's good to be here. |
| 0:11.8 | We've got Earnings Palusa. Earnings starting to ramp up this week. It's not a palusa. It's not a |
| 0:16.0 | bluesy yet. It's really not. Next week is going to be one of those weeks where it's like |
| 0:19.8 | 150 companies in the S&P 500 are reporting but this week we got we got some big names. |
| 0:25.6 | We got some big names. |
| 0:26.6 | We got some airlines, we got some restaurants. |
| 0:28.3 | It's not a Palusa. |
| 0:30.3 | It's not a Palusa.. Don't degrade palooza that way. |
| 0:35.0 | It's like throwing the word gate onto anything that is like a non- |
| 0:40.0 | Or one of your pet peeves, the perfect storm. |
| 0:42.0 | Yes. You hate when people use the perfect storm which is truly a once and a century event and it just should be it's |
| 0:49.8 | thrown around a lot. We'll also dip into the full mailbag. Let's start, however, with Bank of America. Second quarter revenue came in better than expected. Profit more than doubled from a year ago? |
| 1:03.8 | You gotta be happy if you're Bank of America. |
| 1:06.2 | You know, I think that we are going to come back to one of my favorite themes, |
| 1:10.3 | which is the important thing is to have an easy act to follow. |
| 1:15.0 | And Bank of America has a relatively easy act to follow over the last five to ten years, |
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