WEBVTT - Warner Bros. Gets Hostile Bid from Paramount, Tesla Falls, Strategy Rises

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<v Speaker 1>Let's get to some stocks on the move on this

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<v Speaker 1>Monday with us is Bloomberg News process a reporter Danita Sikova.

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<v Speaker 3>When stock we've been all talking about ticker WBD.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, let's talk about the future of Hollywood. The battle

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<v Speaker 4>is heating up. Paramount Skai Dance launch a hostile takeover

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<v Speaker 4>bit It's thirty dollars a share.

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<v Speaker 3>So the math here is very complicated.

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<v Speaker 4>But this is obviously just days after the company agreed

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<v Speaker 4>to deal with Netflix. There are quite a few headlines

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<v Speaker 4>going through a terminal all day. The latest one is

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<v Speaker 4>Netflix Coco saying he's extremely confident it will close the

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<v Speaker 4>Warner deal.

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<v Speaker 3>Of course, way a media executive confident.

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<v Speaker 4>Of course, Well, they say, to be honest, it didn't

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<v Speaker 4>move the price obviously. Paramount Skidance is up seven percent,

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<v Speaker 4>more than seven percent today.

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<v Speaker 3>The ticker is bs KY.

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<v Speaker 4>Warner brought secrets that will be d up four point

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<v Speaker 4>five percent, and Netflix is down today nearly four percent.

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<v Speaker 3>So clearly investors are picking right now this is this

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<v Speaker 3>is something that I've noticed.

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<v Speaker 1>It's odd when Netflix bid, and when it looks like

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<v Speaker 1>Netflix can win, their shares fall when Paramount comes over

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<v Speaker 1>the hostel takeover bid, it looks like they might win it.

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<v Speaker 3>Their share sore. What's fascinating. They've been penalized both days.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 4>Maybe between the close you actually close to the investor

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<v Speaker 4>got excited about the d and now certainly they're penalizing.

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<v Speaker 3>But there is about debt for Netflix. I mean, they

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<v Speaker 3>never I guess, so ballenge I guess. So maybe it's

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<v Speaker 3>something they don't need.

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<v Speaker 4>But as we said, the initial reaction was negative for Netflix.

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<v Speaker 3>That's it.

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<v Speaker 4>Paramount is up, Warner Bros. Is up, and the only

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<v Speaker 4>loser of the situation seems to be netflixing.

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<v Speaker 1>You know it is not down with any of this,

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<v Speaker 1>Senator Elizabeth Warren. Yes, not have she said that a

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<v Speaker 1>Netflix Warner Brothers proposed deal. She called that a nightmare

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<v Speaker 1>at the end of last week, and today she says

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<v Speaker 1>a Paramount skidiance bit is a five alarm anti trust fire.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, she doesn't like it.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, we'll have to see what it means for consumers.

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<v Speaker 3>Right for sure. There is also a five billion termination fee,

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<v Speaker 3>so both of.

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<v Speaker 1>Them, five eight billion from Netflix and five billion from

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<v Speaker 1>very complicated Take it, take.

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<v Speaker 3>The money, the money. Where do you want to go next?

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<v Speaker 4>Let's go to Test, so much simpler, storry, more constantly lowered.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a target, their equivalent, it's the equivalent of a whole.

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<v Speaker 4>This is the first time it happens since June twenty

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<v Speaker 4>twenty three. What they're saying is even Musk is transforming Test,

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<v Speaker 4>so it's all about robotics artificial intelligence. But this is

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<v Speaker 4>fully priced and Test ways down on the news. Ticker,

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<v Speaker 4>of course, is TSLA, a big change from Morgan Stanley

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<v Speaker 4>Test what shares a trait at about two hundred and

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<v Speaker 4>ten times projected earnings over the next year. The only

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<v Speaker 4>stock that trades higher Werner Brothers, So Test for shares

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<v Speaker 4>have largely shook off the year one pp five hundred. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>the average price Secker is about three hundred and eighty

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<v Speaker 4>eight doors Morgan State is actually higher. It still implies

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<v Speaker 4>the six percent decline from here, but definitely not a

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<v Speaker 4>two berriche take. The stock is up ten percent this year,

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<v Speaker 4>which is not a bad but compared to the years

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<v Speaker 4>we saw it was up sixty three twenty twenty four,

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<v Speaker 4>one hundred percent in twenty twenty three. So it's definitely

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<v Speaker 4>not rewarding this high growth company that investors were super

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<v Speaker 4>excited about. And of course we've seen a big shrug

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<v Speaker 4>in slides, a big shrug in profits this year, so

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<v Speaker 4>that's has been a big part of it.

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<v Speaker 1>Can I just remind everyone that Toyota, a second castle

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<v Speaker 1>of Toyota, is the biggest car maker in the world

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<v Speaker 1>by market cap. They have a market cap of three

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and ten billion dollars. The next biggest is Mercedes Benz.

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<v Speaker 1>Mercedes and General Motors are neck and neck at seventy

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<v Speaker 1>billion dollars.

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<v Speaker 3>Ford is worth fifty two billion dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, if you take every single car maker in

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<v Speaker 1>the entire world, you don't even get to half of

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<v Speaker 1>Tesla's market cap at the ones.

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<v Speaker 3>That making dollars. That's somebody who follows the car industry.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, it definitely tells me that nobody on earth is

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<v Speaker 1>valuing Tesla as a car maker. So we make so

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<v Speaker 1>much of a big deal about whether or not they're

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<v Speaker 1>going to meet deliveries or not. You know, how much

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<v Speaker 1>they make on the car business does not matter.

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<v Speaker 2>At all.

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<v Speaker 3>No, it doesn't. It never actually has right in terms

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<v Speaker 3>of what this company is about. I mean, I don't

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<v Speaker 3>even want to look at h valuations and stuff. Hey,

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<v Speaker 3>let's get to MSTR strategy.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's another company where clearly it's not about the

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<v Speaker 4>fundamental strategy. Ink shares are up today after a very

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<v Speaker 4>big sale off. The digital asset treasury company said it

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<v Speaker 4>built more bitcoin one billion worth of bitcoin at the

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<v Speaker 4>start of December, the largest acquisition since July. The tickers MSTR.

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<v Speaker 4>The stock is down sixty percent from its peaking in October.

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<v Speaker 4>Really tough period. Just to give you an example, investors

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<v Speaker 4>were really happy to pay premium. They were paying two

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<v Speaker 4>point five times premium for its bitcoin holdings, and that

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<v Speaker 4>premium has almost disappeared. It's about one point one now.

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<v Speaker 4>But at some point they were saying that they will

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<v Speaker 4>start selling. But we're seeing the opposite trend. They're buying

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<v Speaker 4>more more bitcoin despite that premium.

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<v Speaker 3>Sharp. Please, is it not just creating demand for your

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<v Speaker 3>own product? I guess so. I guess it stops working, right,

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<v Speaker 3>this is the pond point. It starts working.

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<v Speaker 4>Although they have created the reserve that's one point four billion.

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<v Speaker 4>But unless they are sawing on the store counterfeital are

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<v Speaker 4>could their price starreat by fifty last week.

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<v Speaker 1>Mm hmm.