First we start off with apple shares falling 1. 5 as the country underwhelmed the developers conference. Josh lipton is there. Reporter melissa, the app store eight years ago had 500 apps. Fast forward to today, 2 million apps that have been downloaded. Some 130 billion times. Ceo tim cooks jobs keep these developers very happy. He started his key note today by talking to the thousands of developers about the companys products and platforms. Now we offer you four incredible platforms that power these worldchanging product experiences. Watch os. Tv os. Os 10. Ios. Were going to move each of these platforms forward today. Reporter other apple executives were also on stage today, including eddie cue and craig. Developers i talked to, most excited about one change in particular. Apple is now going to let them integrate siri into their answer. That would mean, for example, you could use siri to order an uber or book a reservation. Apple music, which critics had said was clunky, confusing, now apple revamping that service, trying to make it easier to use and navigate. Eddie cue announcing apple music now has 15 million pings, subscribers, up from 13 pl in april. The broader theme right here with the hardware business under pressure as of late, more important than ever for apple to deliver topnotch software and services, both to retain users on these platforms and hopefully also attract new ones. Melissa, back to you. Thanks so much, josh lipton. Lets get to this. Josh went through the highlights, basically opening siri, incremental changes on apple music. But at this point, was that underwhelming . Was that enough to offset growth in the iphone . Underwhelming. We learned last week siri was a nonstarter. On the street nobody knew what siri was. Congratulations. You saw it. He forgot already. Sorry. The focus for apple is the cash reward. And valuation. You cannot call in two of those three. I think people will their products are becoming ubiquitous. Theres no way to sugar coat that. Other Companies Make what apple makes and a lot cheaper. Now its the cool factor. I dont know the answer to this, but if this brexit happens and the euro gets trashed, what toes that mean to apples cash position, which is in euros right now . Are they hedged against Something Like that . I have no idea. Im just throwing it out there. The stock is underwhelmed since may of last year. Down 28 , s p is flat. I get the story, but the stock price action is telling you something. I would think actually that they are hedged. I wouldnt think they are in the position of taking big currency bets. I wouldnt bet theyre entirely hedged. But back to your broader question, i mean, theyve got to do something transformative with siri. Siri is so bad. I missed your piece. Sorry. A lot of people dont know who siri is, it is the most frustrating thing to use. We see the echo and how interesting that is. If they can do something with that, i would find that incredibly useful. That would be a positive for me, a big positive. Isnt it amazing were in a position were talking about apple and were in an environment where people are favoring big names that pay out dividends. Apple fits that category. Yet it cant get off its own back. I think almost the instant depth of the smartphone has been the talk over the last couple of months. I think the iphone 7 refresh is something that were now kind of two years waiting for this. Munster talks very highly of this. I think you have a place where the comps have gotten to be pretty attractive for apple to beat them. I know thats not terribly exciting, but what do we expect from wwdc. This was not supposed to be anything but a software update. So i dont im not disappointed by this. Im flat the stock. I sold it last week. I think theres plenty of room to trade this stock around here. I dont see much moving it. I think it could be a place that still an atm, i think weve learned in the last six months, a lot of the big investors are already out of this name. Im also flat the stock. I think its valued as a Hardware Company. It is a Hardware Company. Thats whats being valued at. I think that by its nature, a Hardware Company thats in decline, if people dont see that ramp for anything to reach for that phone, its really over for them. All right. You need virtual reality. You need aies, but you need virtual reality, something to get me to upgrade. Im going to upgrade, but im not chomping to upgrade. Thats a fair point. We werent expecting much. But shouldnt apple have been making that transition so we would expect more software as a service for the incurring revenues, that could pay off in a couple of years. Were not necessarily seeing that right now. To tims point, they gave you exactly what we expected them to give you. Im not saying this would have been different under steve jobs. But in his day he would have transformative is the word karen used. He would have taken what is potentially just a humdrum ios upgrade and changed it into something special. Maybe they couldnt. Maybe theres nothing there. But i think it would have happened ten years ago. When microsoft is buying linkedin, do you take a look at apple and say, you know what, go out there and think out of the box and do something . No, i dont, actually . Really . I dont think they need to be reactionary to this. I know its sort of stimulating thought about, who needs to buy what, and has the dance of Musical Chairs has done, you have to buy something. I dont think so for them. I think the question is, does one think priced in here, that youre buying a company where iphone 7 underwhelms, and if you are, the risk reward is attractive. If you think its priced in for great things somewhere in the middle. Maybe theyre focused on something in the middle. Thats why the down side is probably whats going to happen versus the upside where theyre going to shock everyone. I think this is a company that still has so much ahead of them in terms of services revenue, and that is the biggest growth part of their business. I realize its not that big of a part. These guys are going to do it. No one is more loyal than their fan base. Gene munster joins us from the conference. Gene, great to have you with us. Lets get right to tims point, the software and service, incurring revenue from services. When does that happen . When does it start to offset some decline were seeing in smart fon growth . Reporter it grew at 20 last quarter, which is acceleration from 15 in the december quarter. Its only about 10 of their revenue. Its still really too small. It is actually heg that problem. I think the point when investors actually give credit for that is the point where theyre not losing sleep over whats going to happen with iphone unit growth. It still weighs on investors minds about the june quarter. Its hard for investors to look at the iphone 7 and growth because of what happened in june for all the reasons, the points youve been talking about. Ultimately i think they will get credit for their services businesses. Its about 50 more profitable than their core business, but it may take ta quarter or two for investors to warm up to that. Weve got the iphone 7 launch. What sort of upgrade cycle, how would you characterize it . When the 6 came out, it was a change in form factor. There were major changes with that upgrade cycle. Is there that same kind of catalyst surrounding the 7 . Reporter theres not. But there doesnt need to be to get these numbers to move in the right direction. Specifically, if you assume that they sell just as many phones as they sold in the iphone 6 cycle, which i think is a conservative estimate, you return basically to 15 iphone growth in the first half of 2017. And so even though the features arent revolutionary, the average person whos using the phone minute to minute needs that new phone every couple years. So they can continue to ride this train until they start to lay the groundwork for some of the bigger things you talked about. Gene, its karen. Let me ask you, where do you think the ultimate mix will end up in terms of their lines of business to understand what the margins will be, and how this ecosystem ultimately ends up fitting into their whole Business Plan . Reporter the next several years, youre probably going to see iphone right around 50 . It varies between 50 and 65 . The reason why that probably is going to decline a little bit is youre going to see an increase in the services business. It is growing faster than the iphone. Ultimately, five, ten years down the road as the new themes come out, like mixed reality and august meanted reality, apple is probably going to be one of the companies that will cannibalize their own business. If you think five, ten years down the road into autos and potential areas, its hard to say what their mix is going to be. Gene, we have to leave it there. Thanks so much for joining us. Jean munster joining us from San Francisco this evening. Gene makes great points. I think hes the his price target, what is that, 50 rise from where we currently are. They need to do a lot of things really well. To karens point about not using their cash, i dont think theyre being rewarded for it anymore. It makes sense with global yields where they are. Whether they want to or not, they better put it to work somewhere. Otherwise i think they continue to be punished for holding the amount of money theyre holding. I think they run the risk of actually doing a deal. Remember when we were talking about apple car, or things that would really be a disaster if these guys forced themselves into being more of a Hardware Company. It comes to, where can you takes this ios, where can you actually continue to have mega, mega margin business. Clearly the margins are falling. We all talked about this. If theyre inside the car, it makes me change my mind on the stock. It actually makes me get back into the stock. The car os. If they had an operating system inside the car where they integrate everything from voice to music to everything, that gets me more excited than it does right now. Up next, the deal of the day. Microsoft agreeing to buy linkedin. This could be a bad thing more microsoft investors. Well explain. Stocks hover near alltime highs. One technician is sounding the alarm. Hell tell us what has him nervous. The fear gauge just hit a threemonth high. One trader made a massive bet that is going much higher. 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When i think about the opportunity ahead around productivity, business process, and the professional network, its a tremendous opportunity to expand our ability to grow. The combination of our two companies, having microsoft behind us, just enables us to realize the things we always dreamt of doing. So were excited about it. That was microsoft ceo and linkedin ceo this morning, discussing the 26. 2 billion deal between the two companies that had the tech world buzzing today. But microsoft has a spotty history in acquisition choices. Hey, dom. This is a big deal, melissa, on so many levels. So according to rich peterson, microsofts purchase of linkedin rates as the biggest u. S. Services and Software Deal of alltime. It also represents by a long shot microsofts biggest acquisition in its history. But its reputation for bigtime highprofile deals in recent years hasnt been all that rosy. Remember some of these guys back in 2007 . It paid around 6. 3 billion for Online Advertising company. Five years later, it took a charge, wrote down nearly the entire purchase price. In 2013 it bought a finnish phone company. Two years later it wrote down the value of that purchase. Prior to today, its biggest purchase was for internet phone and Video Service skype, which announced back in 2011 it paid 8. 5 billion. Skype is still around, doing pretty well, but questions remain about just how much more it can grow. Of course, theres always that one that got away. Many shareholders are pretty happy maybe that microsoft didnt end up closing on that proposed deal to buy yahoo for 45 billion back in 2008. Remember, fast forward eight years from then, its worth closer to 35 billion at todays market value. Melissa, while this deal by linkedin for 26 billion is filled with possibilities, theres a reason why at least some are exercising just a bit of skepticism over whether microsofts ceo can really get the most out of it. Back over to you guys. Thank you very much, dom. Now, linkedin ceo addressed concerns about microsofts past acquisitions. It was to operate linkedin as an independent entity within microsoft. I would remain a ceo and report directly to him instead of a board. So is this deal going to turn out a little bit better than some of microsofts past ones, tim . First of all, you have to consider the price in which theyre paying. Theyre paying seven times sales, which is an extraordinary number. When you think about what they were dabbling in last year with crm, it actually looks like an improfit in terms of what theyre willing to pay, and possibly overpay. When i think about nokia, when i think about skype, when i think about these deals, they were late to the party. The worlds leading professional network with the enterprise and cloud presence, youre doing it at a time when they should do these things together. Those other ones seemed like they were really, really reacting and chasing to get into an area that they needed to be. And that they were far behind. To say theyre getting into social right now is a, you know, a leading exercise for these guys is a stretch. I remain doubious. I think they certainly are showing decent growth. But i wonder how they continue to grow at this rate. I think the professional Services Space is something that becomes very, very competitive. Some of the examples how the thing would be integrated are interesting. I hadnt thought about, you set up a meeting in your microsoft calendar outlook and you go to linkedin and crossreference those people easily, there could be integration there. But the analysts i spoke to today, they didnt now how theyll be monetized, though, how you make money off of that. Thats all great, but what do you do with that . I think we talked a little bit before the show about nest. There was the idea of being able to integrate that. And, you know, i history has not been friendly to the notion of operating as an independent entity within a much larger one. But i think hes a different kind of ceo. Its possible. Youre a value girl. Are you even looking at microsoft anymore . When i look at it down 9 yeartodate, you open up the show talking about apple, talking about valuation, this should be a sweet spot for microsoft. Its not. It seems to be out of favor. It seems like youre getting two losers. Linkedin was on a downward trend. And you wind up the two of them meeting up. I dont know if they make a positive. Certainly it adds a level of risk. Microsoft is riskier today than it was yesterday for sure. I dont think the reaction of microsoft was particularly popular. It wasnt so big, i thought. Okay. All right. I look at opportunistic. This is a 400 million market cap company, give or take. A 25 billion deal. Its a big number, but to me, the risk is limited. There will be headline risk and maybe risk in terms of people talking about what a lousy deal it was. I dont think it will adversely affect their business. If they arent able to pull this off, i think there is big upside if they can figure out how to monetize it. Whats interesting is when they started talking, they said they started discussing this deal in february. Go back thats exactly when the stock fell off. Thats why to me they have an opportunity to get into social. Yes, granted, at a big price. But a lot cheaper than it would have been two months prior. And they pulled the trigger on something to me that has a high risk, high reward. What does this do to twitter . More likely twitter finds a buyer. Clearly the market was ready to play on that today. The question is, where there is a strategic fit. Twitter, a stock im long, the guys executing in the space are not necessarily strategic mixes, i mean, twitter is becoming out there on its own really effectively a media brand. Thats a big problem for these guys. Instagram, eating their lunch. This shouldnt be reading in that much more positivity. It takes a major player out of the game. Still ahead, brexit fears weighing on the market. Dennis gartmans got the best way to play a potential brexit. Its got a lot to do with gold. Heres what else is coming up on fast. Here, on the Global Markets, here are the u. S. Markets. And heres what theyre about to do. I wont tell you which will win the battle for your money. Plus, traders are betting volatility is going to surge next month. Well tell you how you can protect your portfolio. When fast money returns. Used, to protect this customer, who lives here and flies to hong kong, to visit this company that makes smart phones, used by this Vice President , this little kid, oops, and this obstetrician, who works across the street from this man, who creates software. They all have insurance crafted personally for them. Not just coverage, craftsmanship. Not just insured. 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Its how you stay connected. With centurylink as your trusted technology partner, you get an industry leading Broadband Network and cloud and hosting services. Centurylink. Your link to whats next. Welcome back to fast money. Lets get to the move of the day. Falling to the tune of 1. 5 , toll brothers, some of the hardest hit names. Its not just the home builders. Home depot hitting a threemonth low in todays session. Guy, whats up with home depot . I think people starting to look at valuation. In november heres a stock that went down to 110 only to move back to levels we saw a couple of weeks ago. I think whats happening now is, people are seeing the s p, getting a little nervous about the market overall. Vix is starting to move higher. Look at a name like home depot, a lot of people have been in it for a long time and saying nows the time to take money off the table. Ill be able to buy it back cheaper. I dont think its a ridiculous valuation. I think theyre doing everything right. I understand why the stock is going lower. I think you could probably see it back down to 120 or so, buy it there. On the builders . Im still long polte. Home depot was talked about the only spot in the group you could buy and feel safe buying. Its reversed the course now. Kb homes is up 12 or so. Against the back drop of the s p, only up 1. 6 . They are outperforming. I think theyve been beaten up. Stay in the trade. Go on to grades, grassos trade. Ill quickly say, watch home depot against the jobs numbers. Its clear, if you dont have a job, youre not fixing up your homes. I think you have to be careful on that one. Uncertainty over whether the uk will leave the European Union. Got the commodity king making moves. Why a company is doubling down on its bet in the competitive world. Youre not gonna watch it no, youre not gonna watch it we cant let you download on the goooooo youll just have to miss it yeah, youll just have to miss it we cant let you download. Uh, no thanks. I have x1 from xfinity so. Dont fall for directv. Xfinity lets you download your shows from anywhere. I used to like that song. Welcome back to fast money. A down day on wall street. The dow dropped 133 points. The move sending the volatility index to its highest levels since late february. Heres whats coming up in the second half of the show. Brexit vote just ten days away. What should you be buying or selling into the event . Dennis gartman joins us with the brexit playbook. Well sit down with a companys ceo. Selling pressure hurt stocks here. According to cornerstone macros carter, he joins us at the smart board. The performance of europe and asia versus the u. S. Market, you really get down to what you believe or dont believe in decoupling. You can decouple for a certain amount of time but not forever. A couple tables, and then some charts. This is the cycle high, the actual date. So all of europe measured by the stock 600, peaked first. Russell 3000, coming up on the oneyear mark. Nikkei two days later. Number of sessions here. Really, whats important is, from those cycle highs, to where we are now, is, of course, the carnage. The nikkei down 23 . And then theres the smoking gun. Meaning how long can the russell 3000, 98 of the investable capital in the united states, how long can that hold out. I dont think it does hold out. This is the comparative charts of the three aggregates. Youve got unto itself, u. S. Equities measured by the russell 30000 and the stock 600 and nikkei. Youre going to get convergence in my view. This is going back to the prior bull market peak. Weve got the same circumstance. Basically the u. S. Unto itself. While theyve all sort of struggled, its still about the spread. And just a little bit further, back to the prior market peak in 1999, the same general circumstance. I think the issue is this. Can this hold out and continue to be after 18 months when the rest of the world continues to deteriorate. My thinking is no. Are there certain sectors, carter, in which the disparity is the greatest of those, and because of that disparity between, lets say, european financials and u. S. Financials or whatever sector you want to pick, that should also happen . You hit at the heart of the the european financials are in trouble. Credit suisse has broken below the lows. But the trouble in financials, not only in the u. S. , the second biggest sector by weight, the most important sector. They act terribly. Thats one of the big problems. We just dont have support of moneys that are banks and other key, you know, sort of interest sensitive parts of the market. Carter, good to see you. Thank you. All right. Lets take a look at the european financials. Because the performance has been terrible. Whether or not you want to go to financials, karen, or the broader markets. Whats your take on this sort of analysis . Obviously financials have not worked. They worked briefly for a window of briefly where the people there was more expectation the fed would raise. Its very frustrating. Its off the table for the moment. A fed raise. But i dont know. Im not looking at i dont think im looking at contagion here. I know there are many that think that will be the case. I dont think so. I think the uncertainty, though, seems to be rising, as i was more confident last week that we wouldnt have brexit. I still think we wont. I dont think things will calm down until the vote actually happens. One thing carter is talking about, its almost like youve got to reverse. At some point they have to trade together after being apart. I could push back on that and say theres a lot of Global Markets that were underperforming the u. S. For five years. Emerging markets, some may say, thats not necessarily the same group of countries were talking about. If youre talking about where youre getting Global Growth historically and no one was saying anything about the em underperforming for five years, whether you think the dollar should be trading where it is, our dollar, your problem, and our fed driving Global Central Bank policy. So i still think the u. S. Can outperform. I do agree, and i think its worth looking at the russell. The russell is where im short. The russell 2000. This to me is going to be i think the most energized, certainly the highest leverage built into the short side. If things fall apart, you have credit issues and small cap. That will underperform. Glass half full or half empty in that you think the u. S. Will go down to meet the underperformance of the other sectors, or vice versa . Im always half empty. But thats just the way i was raised in a wall street that if it can go wrong, it will go wrong. So im half empty. The russell failed at 120. Thats a level it needed to close above. It appears to be rolling over. As do the transports. Last week i think we had the ewg, the germany having the preemptive strike to the upside. I dont know whats going on with deutsche bank. Im not smart enough to know. I thought it was oil. Clearly thats not the case. So there are bigger things going on in the european banks. The news alert on details at headquarters. Baidu down as much as 5 after hours on a revenue warning. This is a revised revenue guidance for the Second Quarter of 2016, in the rate of 2. 8 to 2. 823 billion. Bai durks has taken steps to implement measures requested by regulatory authorities such as modifying practices, and has observed a reduction or delay in spend from a significant portion of medical customers while a review is under way. Thats impacting its revenue. The shares are down 6. 8 on this revenue warning. Seema, thank you. Quite a drob drop in the afterhours. Im long the stock. The headlines have been really ugly when you consider the golden goose, which i think this is to the Chinese Government, could be under some pressure here from the Chinese Government. I think theres a need to show that they are going after fraudulent activity. And are seeking transparency. Obviously are going to have the social issues that the Chinese Government is going to always stand in front of. So ultimately i think this stock is ridiculously cheap. Whats the discount to trade at. I think its at a place its starting to get silly. 140 is where i would stop myself out of some of my position. This revenue cut 10 of a revenue cut . That is a very, very substantial cut. I dont know that this knee jerk it might be closer to your i would think it would be down more than this. The stock down from recently 190. To down to 150. Volatility surging to the highest level in three months. The brexit vote, a little over a week away. Commodities expert Dennis Gartman telling us what you should be buying or selling ahead of that big event. Welcome back to fast money. Almost all of europe ended mondays session in the red as anxiety heightens over the growing possibility of a brexit. Seema . Melissa, thats right. Markets are in full brexit alert. Less than ten days to go until the uk referendum. It shows that the lead camp has taken a sixpoint advantage over the remain campaign, heightening investor concerns that britain will vote to leave the 28member eu bloc. An outcome that could have widespread negative implications on yirp and dramatically change the rules around trade and regulation. Further adding to the Brexit Debate are powerful comments from the former uk Prime Minister brown who urged labor supporters to back an eu membership. He played an influential role in the Scottish Independence vote. It can be felt in the european bond market with the tenyear hitting an all time low. The british pound trading all over the map today on conflicting headlines currently sitting at a twomonth low against the u. S. Dollar. Seema, thank you. Now, if britain opts to leave the eu, gold is going higher. How much higher . Joining us to discuss is commodities king Dennis Gartman. Dennis, whats your forecast . Well, as always, i will rarely put a price on something. I will simply say the best one can do after being in the business for over 40 years is to say that i think the trend is up. I think its from the lower left to the upper right. I think that trend is likely to continue. I think the circumstances prevailing in europe with the advent of the referendum next week, i think its actually going to be the polls are even worse than a fivepoint lead for the leaveers. It depends who shows up at the polls. Right now it looks like those voting to leave the European Union are going to prevail. Thats going to cause all sorts of problems for the rest of the currencies in europe. I think that puts pressure not only on sterling, but on the euro. Clearly people are not not clearly. But it looks like people are bidding up gold in anticipation of this event. What happens if a vote remains . Do we see the gold flush to the down side . You could, you could see gold trade down 15, 16, 20, if the vote is to remain in. I suspect, however, the vote is that they will want to leave. The numbers look egregiously onesided. The only caveat is the bookies. They take a lot of bets in the uk on these sorts of things. The bookies in the past have been very good at predicting elections, very good at predicting fed policy changes, very good at predicting ecb policy changes. The bookies still say its 21 in favor of remaining, even though the polls show that the leavers have a dramatic advantage. You say the pound and euro will go down. So youre actually forecasting a period in which gold and the u. S. Dollar are both higher . I think you could see gold and the dollar both go higher. Therefore, the proper trade is to own gold in euro terms, or even own gold in yen terms. But predominantly at this point you want to own gold in euro terms. You want to be long the currency that would be the strongest, that would be gold. Short the currency or fund your gold in the currency thats the weakest, the euro is second. Dennis, its karen. Let me ask you something. Looking at the pound, for the same bet, what do you think the risk reward of the pound is versus gold for the brexit event . Theyve beaten up the table so severely over the last month and a half. If i had to choose between one or the other, id choose not to be terribly short sterling. I would actually make my choice to be short the euro. I think sterling has discounted the demise of the vote completely. It could go a little bit lower. You could take cable under one 35. I think having fallen down from almost 160, to below 140, in the course of a month and a half, most of the ill news that would be predicated upon a leave vote i think is already in there. I think the one that is that has the most exposure is the euro. Because if you do vote for brexit, and i hate that term, if you do vote to leave, if the uk leaves, youll see at the periphery, other countries say we want out, too. This is very difficult and disconcerting for all of europe. Thank you, dennis. Im long gdx. When dennis talks about correlations, theyre on one day, off the next day. It makes it impossible for a trader to actually trade off of correlation. Stick with whats working. Gdx is up 90 yeartodate. So i know that dennis likes to actually hold the physical. Im using the outperformance of gdx if it goes higher in any market. Ultimately the trade is higher. In your view at this point, the brexit gold right now, is the risk reward to be long in brexit . I think so, yes. I understand that they vote to stay, there will be a kneejerk reaction to gold to the down side. I dont think the gold rally is predicated on brexit at all. It started when japanese went to the negative Interest Rate policy. Thats not going away anytime soon. I think as long as rates stay lower, gold goes higher. I think you listen to what dennis is saying about the ewi, ewp, spain, italy, spreads are widening today on the tenyear in those two parts of the world. Everywhere else were seeing yields plunge. The volatility weve seen in the markets, vix hitting the highest level since february. Mike is breaking it down from his favorite Chinese Restaurant in massachusetts. There it is. There it is, mike. Yes. The vix was higher, so was options. The vix options volume hit the two times average daily volume about 2 00 today. Much of that volume were short dated june calls. But i think the part that was most interesting, of course, is to take a look beyond the referendum and see what people were doing there. I think the most interesting and most active option was the july 24 calls trading for about 1. 45. Over 35,000 of those traded by about 2 00 this afternoon. That would require the vix to be above 25. 45 for those calls to be profitable. Obviously if youre making that bet, youre making a bet youll see a significant spike in volatility. That would probably be accompanied by buying protection in equities. Is it too high . Did you miss that window at this point . Its closer to being a sale. I think theres more room to go in the volatility index. I think it goes higher. By the way, that is not a Chinese Restaurant. Were joking. You just said it was. Were joking because the background was that background looks like you could we didnt say you can get dumplings there. I was joking. Four of us were with you. Is that traditional Chinese Restaurant music . 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Madden, fifa, and of course, battlefield, and a whole bunch of other products later on. Youve announced youre investing in the area of esports. When will we start to see esports start to boost your bottom line . Weve been running largescale products in asia, where esports has been big for the best part of a decade. I would expect through engagement in our games were not focusing just on the elite levels of these sports, but competitive gaming overall for the entire community. I think youll see engagement and increased profitability overall. Almost immediately. Vr is a hot topic this year. Youre making a star wars game for sonys vr headset. When will we start seeing vr affect your profit . Thats a little further out, quite honestly. We also announced a racing game with google a couple of weeks ago. Theres a whole bunch of stuff. Weve got to figure out how to design some of the issues. Technology i think will continue to get better. As those three things work forward, i think vr starts to have a big impact for us. You laid out the star wars road map. Three more star wars games. The fact that youre tied to the success of those films, or are you . I think we are, of course, tied to the success of the films. The good news is, the first one was spectacular. By all accounts our expectations are every other film is going to be great. Star wars has been big since i was a kid. I was born in 74, and star wars was already huge. Its an ip that transcends generations, transcends geography. And our expectations, well be able to make great games for a long time. Your stock is trading at an alltime high. What do you say to investors who think its overvalued or doesnt have more room to run . Come see what were doing here. Weve got a bunch of gamers coming through. The industrys never been stronger. Mobile gaming, no signs of abating. Youve got streaming coming through. Vr coming through. This industry overall has a tremendous tailwind. We are uniquely positioned to benefit from that growth. We look forward to continuing to talk to you about everything you guys have in store. Andrew wilson, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, julia boorstin, as well as our thanks to the ceo of electronic arts, andrew wilson. Whats your play here . Up 8 yeartodate. When i look at my kids, boots on the ground analysis, they love these games. They love the sports. Everyone knows the tag line ea, its in the game. The First Person Shooter games when you switch over to activision, i dont know i dont want to get into the Political Correctness of it, but its underperformed the group. Grand theft auto is a whole other game. I dont know if i could even play that game. I dont know if im the right age for that game. I think i need to be older, more mature to play that game. Or more experience in ripping off a car. Either one. If you go for the laggard, i think you go activision. Look, the company the pipeline of the star wars games, all the sports games coming out, it tells you the interest, but also the multiple that the industry should trade at. 20 times trade at a premium to activision. Relative value, you stay in the one thats really working. Youre a gamer. I say that sarcastically. And we wonder why we have an obesity problem here in the u. S. I dont think the valuation is that crazy. They have a great balance sheet. Doing everything right. The problem is, the stock failed at 75 1 2. Thats where it topped out in november. I think it trades lower from here. Coming up on mad money, tech as a whole . Stocks that could be winners off the cashrich election cycle. Top of the hour, mad money. Final trade is up next. I could get used to this. Now you can. When you lease the 2016 es 350 for 329 a month for 36 months. See your lexus dealer. Its how you stay connected. 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I think the volatility will go up a little more and youll have a chance to roll out of them at a better price. Grasso . Ridiculous as this sounds, gdx up 9 . I still think its a buy. Im still long. You might see a couple of pullbacks. Gdx, buy. Whats that game you were playing . Grand theft auto . I dont play any games. Linkedin deal, i know it sounds crazy, but twitter up 3. 5 today. I think twitter goes higher from here. See my mission is simple. To make you money. Im here to level the Playing Field for all investors. There is always a bull market somewhere and i promise to help you find it. Mad money starts now. Hey, im cramer. Welcome to mamad money. My job isnt just to entertainment but to educate and teach you. So call me. Or tweet me. Has tech gotten its mojo back . Should we take advantage of todays weakness . The dow