Zoom Video’s Big Buy
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🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Zoom Video makes its biggest acquisition ever buying Five9, a cloud-based call center operator, for $14.7 billion in stock. AutoNation posts blowout earnings in the 2nd quarter. Jason Moser analyzes those stories and breaks down what happens when a stock you own has been bought for cash.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, July 19th. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Marketfoolery. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Hill with me today, Mr. Jason Moser. |
| 0:08.0 | Good to see you, my friend. |
| 0:09.3 | Good to see you. |
| 0:10.3 | Good to see you. |
| 0:11.6 | We've got automotive news. |
| 0:13.0 | We're going to talk about buyouts, but we're going to start with the deal of the day. |
| 0:17.4 | Zoom video is buying 5.9 for $14.7 billion. |
| 0:23.4 | 5.9 is a cloud-based call center operator. |
| 0:28.4 | Zoom is financing this deal in stock. |
| 0:31.8 | And I will just point out that as of this recording, shares of 5.9 are up around 5%. |
| 0:37.3 | Shares of Zoom video are down around 4%. |
| 0:40.0 | So that is the short-term grade that Wall Street is giving this deal. |
| 0:46.0 | How do you think about this deal from a long-term perspective? |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, I'm actually interested that the... |
| 0:52.6 | I figured Zoom shares would have been hit a little bit more on this, |
| 0:56.8 | but it's nice to see it's refreshing to see that they have not been hit too terribly hard. |
| 1:02.7 | And I think the market is probably looking at this the right way. |
| 1:05.8 | The first thing I thought of when I read about this deal on Zoom's investor relations site, |
| 1:11.5 | I got one word for you, sales force. |
| 1:15.0 | And that may not make sense to some, |
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