Year as a Public Company. We celebrated 20 years in business this year. Weve learned a lot of lessons. In doing that, we understand what the opportunity we have. A lot of things have come out newswise about the growth and success we had. Finally, things were most proud of, if we jumped into this pit that had 25, 30 competitors for us, and now weve emerged and are now the number three sports brand in the world. The thing that has us drin, i dont know if we did a good enough job getting across yesterday was telling people that is while were now number three, the delta between number three and number four is maybe a few tens of million oorz a few hundred Million Dollars. The delta between number three and number two, is about about a 15 runway. Were confident in that message, and for a company that began with an outlook to the street that said we have going to be a roughly 5 billion its something were proud of. The message we have to get across isnt that our story is about 7. 5 billion. The story is about putting the infrastructure in place for us to be a 10 billion growing brand. We can really hit scale. You have a number of firms that are giving you the heisman. I mean, cowen, deutsche, steiffel. One describes under armor as being under siege. I think were here for a reason. Like, i came our country is one thing. When people push us, i think that well be right back every were the kiefr company that fights back. If you want to think about where weve been, look at the track record of growth that weve established as a company. The year we ipoed 2005. This year well be close to 5 billion. In our operating income alone in 2017, well be nearly two times what we did in revenue just in our ipo year. This comes with it, but under armor has such an amazing runway in front of us and the track record weve done to establish that. Go back to 2012, where we were 100 Million International business. Today were 700 million just four years later. Womens was footwear was 200 million. Womens the same thing. Just a few hundred Million Dollars. Weve established this platform of not being a nice player, but we have eyes on number one. We are one of the top three brands in the world. More importantly, we have eyes on being the number one brand in the world. Thats the kind of company youre investing. Its the pace on getting there that seems to be the issue. You told the street yesterday you cant meet the targets you laid out at your 2015 investor day. Why . We told them we reiterated our top line. What we said about our bottom line is what we see is that this isnt about just getting the 7. 5 billion, which is the target we laid out. What we said is looking strategically, in an industry like ours, unfortunately, our lead times are so slow, we live in an 18monthly product cycle. Our sales cycles are slow. Youre not seeing things on our runway ask buying it the next day. Its a 12month sales cycle. For us the story we gave on investor day is 2017 and 2018. Weve said that, absolutely, we can with what we told wgs actually achieve 2017 and 2018. In a company thats consistently taking the longterm, the long view, thats how were approaching today. 10 billion brand of scale. We believe that we can begin to leverage and maximize and optimize shareholder value, et cetera, beginning in the future. For now the right thing for us to do is to build the number one brand in the world that we can that begins in our space, and something we think that we can accomplish in time. You have described part of your strategy as get big fast. There are questions as to whether that puts toop pressure on your margins, cash flow. Margins seem to be a big question today on wall street. Theres a lot of things that goes into what makes the right decision for the business. The operating margin rate is that sometimes people pay too much attention to it. The thing thats unique is because our top line is growing in the 20s, you know, and consistently growing in the 20s, and weve done that. We reported our 26th consecutive quarter at 26 top line revenue growth. Thats something we get on the top line, and we also understand how to optimize and lefrmg our business. Were looking at it and making pro active investments because the thing right now is look and say, unfortunately, when a consumer walks in the store, they see brand a to the left and brand b in the right and under armor in the middle. I imagine that we dont get to hang a sign on the door that says were only 20 years old and our two competitors are 46 and 62 years old respectively. With under armor, i take something i took in the call yesterday about our womans footwear business. A year ago we had one person. This year we have 60. Its growing. Its better. Our competition has dozens to hundreds of people working in the same division. We dont get credit unless we win. We need great product and beautiful investment. Making a shoe is really like making a car. It is a tricky wisconsin that involves more investment than maybe people from the outside would see, but were also saying when weve made investments in the past, we performed. I dont know why people would second guess that. I think its the pace of the investment or how aggressive youre being. I think people expect you to spend on footwear, on expansion, on retail, et cetera, but the pace seems to be faster than wall street had anticipated. Thats one of the reasons why your stock got punished. I dont know if any other pace than for us to move fast. Its all weve done. Weve been a fast growing company. Weve been one of the top ten performers in the s p 500 the last three years as well. The i think the return the results that weve had as a company have demonstrated that weve got the trust and the ability to do this. Ill tell you, squot, if there was a book out there that could tell me and say how do you take a company thats grown 26 consecutive quarters. How do you take six and a half years of that consistent growth and if theres a book that we could read, i would have read it. Im saying instead i think were writing the book. When people say you should have margin and pressure, you know, were in the arena. There is blood and sweat on our face. We are fighting every single day for this brand that little boys and little girls, you think about great stories. Think about nova scotia the same company that we pull rabbits out of our hats for a living. Whether its finding, you know, Misty Copeland and the story about her or jordan spooet or stephan curry who we launched a brand new product last night on the nba tipoff with stephan curry called the curry 3 and a new campaign for him and this other activation that at the end of the day, you know, were inspiring little boys and little girls to run our product. Again, we demonstrated that we understand top line, and we certainly understand bottom line. The decision that is were making is still prudent. Were still going to make more than half a billion dollars. Were doing all there growth, and were doing it profitably. Youre in a world where you have to be real itsic. Theres no margin for error. You have a high valuation stock. One single misstep, even with all of these metrics that you have hit or accelerated or are ahead of plan on doesnt matter when you have a high valuation stock, and gets knocked down. Weve averaged weve had close to a 50 p. E. Since the day we went public in november of 2005. Our brand is special. Our brand is unique and different. When you invest in under armor, number one, we have a track record of winning. You know . Thats it. One of the most recent thing i wrote on my white boards in my office where i keep the culture of the company, over promise and deliver, walk with a purpose. It says i dont have to be right. I just want to win. I dont know. People can judge what we said yesterday or not, but when i look and say the operating plans, we look at 17 and 18 and said, yeah, we could absolutely execute on what we want to do for 17 or 18. You make 26,000 a year. We understood what we were doing. Were telling, you like, whether its the right or wrong decision, i dont believe in that. I just believe in the best decision. Nobody has seen a growth juggernaut like the market today with an opportunity to be one of the best brands in the world. Your competition is not stepping aside by any means. Theres nokia. Theyve had a resurgence. Has that surprised you . I think were in a competitive industry, and weve got really good competitors. You should hear the things they call us. Im not going to look back and say did we say this or say that . You know, our business, our run in this business is its tough. Weve been clear about that. You know, while people have chased price and changed the market and done other things the decision we made yesterday about investment in our brand, were saying we can either stay here and leverage and optimize, or you know what, we have a chance stog for it. To go for that next 15 billion of runway. Just in north america alone, we have under armor did close to 4 billion over the last 10, 12 months. Our two competitors combined in north america did 18 billion. You think about the runway and the opportunity we have to close. Its like we are investing for the long of term and were demonstrating concern. Its just the sales mix when you have things Like International and footwear, and footwear is a great example. It takes a long time to become excellent in footwear. We certainly have perfect and have expertise. Were still 1,000 bips behind our competitors from a gross margin standpoint with footwear. Weve also improved gross margin close to 200 bips each year. Were getting better. It just takes time, and the goal we have again is to be number one. Thats what the under armor brand is all about. Nike gave us soft outlook. Does that concern you . Were aware of whats happening in the market, but were looking at one of the things we got hit on its theoretically the same kinds of customers. One of the things that people were concerned that our apparel growth was slowing. We had 26 quarters before that. This quarter we reported 18 apparel growth andle 5 of our business is done in north america. North American Apparel, which is the brand we were, you know, just really five or six years ago, has now evolved into a global brand. Still north American Apparel remains one of the most profitable businesses, and thats still driving and growing. At 18 with 85 of our business, this is not coming from every place else. We have a great growth story. Its not easy out there. I tell you in our business alone when you have seen the consolidation, where the previous five years before 2016 we had a total of 170 million of Sales Revenue disappear from the Sporting Goods channel. In the last 12 months alone weve had over 4 billion revenue disappear. Its going to take the Creative Companies and find ways in order to continue to grow and to put that kind of positive metric on. Again, on a quarter where we put up another it 22 of positive growth. I heard the lulu lemon ceo say athleisure was in a bubble. Thats a big area of growth and expansion for you especially with females. One of the big areas weve recently launched at fashion week, under armor sports wear where if you think about our brand. The silos what does cam newton or tom brady wear on a football field . Think about the silo of sport performance, the curry 3. A relevant shoe that can you wear with a pair of jeans but you can wear on a you can make this fashion. The reason we did fashion is so we could open up this massive opportunity called lifestyle. Lifestyle represents less than 5 of our total business. For our two major competitors, its a collective of withinthird of their businesses respect tvly. Its over 15 billion of opportunity. The things that were seeing, give us an opportunity to go chase. We can win. We can win profitably. Its going to take us a little bit of time. Meanwhile, were going to continue to post the kind of growth that has made us one of the most unique stories, you know, in the s p without question. You have a new store thats opening up on fifth avenue right next to the apple store in the old fao schwartz. You really want to be a retailer . You really want to be spending to expand in that kind of business you have heard of amazon, havent you . No question, but i think that life is going to be about experienceal refail. We announced a few things when we opened that. We have an mazing list of partners. People like dicks Sporting Goods that continue to be market leeshds. Footlocker, finish line. We amazing partners. We see the ability in order to be a great wholesaler to understand what thats like. To recreate what is that Retail Experience going to be . You think the omni channel experience, the mix of digital and what physical space will be about is the its to build the greatest store in the store. The greatest Retail Experience of all time. If we can do that, how do we multiply it, but today we wake up and have 500 stores globally. A lot of that is coming from china, but we dont have Sporting Goods distribution in many markets that were close to 70. We opened 30 new ecommerce sites over the last 18 months. We have a total of 30 sites that we have of truly accident are like, making ourselves digital and attacking ecommerce. Our top competitor has 24,000. This isnt about comp store growth. This is about us finding and truly driving additional growth for the business. I think were really just Getting Started with. In part to do that deals that you have made with either leagues or teams, universities, et cetera. You have a new deal to outfit teams by 2020 . There was a report out there. I mean, where he havent announced anything fifltly, but ill tell you that number one, im glad that we get a phone call for every deal. One of the things we say is that while weve reached the size and scale that we can now do anything we just cant do everything. We got to be thoughtful and strategic. What these deals mean is that our company is at that point that, you know, weve achieved scale to be able to grow and be a great partner. It creates, i think, an amazing opportunity for us as what we can deliver for leagues or teams as well as, of course, what the exposure can mean for us. Were excited about many of the teams we signed recently. Wisconsin, ucla, cal. We do see, you know, additional opportunities. When they come up, well be ready to strike, and a lot of that is about having dry powder, but it has to be strategic. When we signed cal and we did have Stephen Curry and the acquisition of my fitness pal. How can we put these things together . We want to be in a position to win. What about the election . What do you like . Who are you going to vote for . I know you didnt expect that. I didnt expect that. I dont know. We ask every ceo that question. I love my family. I love under armor. I love america. I want america to win. Like, we just were the greatest. I spent 250,000 miles on the road this year. Ill do more next year. The one thing i see is america is a special place. I hate to see us in the line of being torn down. I think we are great now. I do think theres opportunity for us to improve. I definitely want people in america to believe. The thing im proudest about of under armor, whether its a day like yesterday, yeah, well come out on your slow and talk about our company. The last thing we would do is lay down and hide. We do punch back. Thats something i think under armor is an american story and something that makes me proud. I know theres an entrepreneur thats saying, hey, look, the guy from university of maryland, state school, they did it. I can do it too. Under armor stands for a lot of things. Well keep running hard and well keep winning. I appreciate your time today. Thanks for coming here. Thanks, scott. Kevin plank, the ceo and founder of under armor. The traders and Mario Gabelli are standing by. Apple, sony, at t and. 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Woman vote yes on prop 55 to help our children thrive. Here on set with, you josh brown, the najarian brothers. He is the kmarm and ceo, martin gabelli. Gooed to have you back. Great to be here. Yesterday you pressed me on it and said, john, whats the difference between a buck here and buck there . I said depends how many shares youre buying. I bought it today. I bought january 3250 calls and under armor. I liked what mr. Plank was saying. I think after the stocks had this hit, its a nice time to pick it up where. Are you on these . I e im not into the nike under armor type we are in other parts of Live Entertainment and sports. Baseball, basketball. I know you are a sports guy. And so on. Were you ai booer as well . Imauto not a buyer yet, scott. The only reason i say that is this is a great longterm play, and i think kevin plank lays out how theyre trying to execute on this longterm play. As of right now, youre seeing growth, and youre seeing it in the right places. Internationally, 74 . They continue to show that growth. The one concern i have right now is you have compression. North america has gotten pulled back. If you do have a longterm view on this stock i could see this being a double longterm. Three, four, five years. Im just not willing to be in there right now at this point. I am with the najarian. They have different views here. One is in, and he is not where. He is hedged. John will play it over five minutes. Pete is ten minutes longterm. I got it. L. T. If you believe that kevin plaurng can take a bigger chunk out of nike, even if it takes time, nike is an 58 billion market cap. Under armor and nike in the defined down trend. In the case of under armor, it is not often that you get a chance to buy stock in a company down 33 from its high. After its just had 26 consecutive quarters of 20 growth. It merited a look. Even if youre not at the bottom, youre getting it far away from its prior high. Thats another important part. People, look, people are betting on under armor. Theyre betting on kevin plank. You cant disassociate the two, right . This is one of those stories where the founder is as very much the story of the company, is it not . Certainly over your career you have invested in companies where youre buying the person as much as you are theres no question that when i follow a company like navus, i know that i have a different ceo than the one he proceeded. A fabulous job there versus the guy thafts before him. I like the business and the franchise. I like that you had lulu lemon. Lululemon, bang, a 2 plus pop today out of nowhere. Nike, likewise came up. This one hit the lows and came off a little. I just thought it was a better value down here. I am also in lulu now. The company poetsed its first annual revenue drop in some 15 years. Mario, i know you own this one, correct . I would rather talk about fizz, but well hold it up for later. Its not going to explode. Its a drink. Its an organic natural pop the top. Youll be okay. No, i dont any you guys . What do do you with this . People going into the quarter said it was pretty much the quarter that no one seemds to care about. For people that are nontaxable, and the tax consequences of wieg did as Warren Buffett did around 92 and selling it up around 117 or 118, its to put yourself out in a spread in january. As far as today, below 114. I still think it represents a great value there and theyll have a fabulous christmas season. However, the seven plus that many of us here on the desk have, you cant get them. Thats kbr theres concern on the street today as you look forward to the holiday season. They could make a lot and sell a lot. Theres a Company Selling 46 million phones. Unfortunately, down from 48 million phones. Lets not lose the big picture. The people buying iphones are locked into this ecosystem. Services revenue up 24 . This is what people want to see. I want to see services. Here you are, sir. Quite frankly, youre talking about a company that now makes 9 billion a quarter. is00 million in profit a day. This is bazerk what the company was able to do. Youll have to move past that. Youre paying a discounted multiple for the s p for one of the most reliable tech businesses maybe in history. Have you to break that down, and you see 20 periods growth, 24 growth. This is only 13. 5 . Its where you need to grow. When you look at multiples rkz lets put up an example. Under armor. The problem for under armor is even a forward multiple puts them at 35 or 40, right . When you look at that, you go, wow, thats pretty rich. You look at apple trading at a 13 times, and, by the way, the did 6 billion of Record Number 6. 3 billion they made on services, thats what facebook does total revenue. How is apple doing . Pretty well. Tech, media sort of encompasses the kind of companies were talking about. You like sony . Well, theres a lot of companies in a Global Entertainment connectivity and content business. Sony is a little different. They tried to take over you have a company with 1. 3 billion shares. The stock is at 33. Whether you take out their Financial Services not that theyre going to sell, but they have no debt. Cash. When you think of Artificial Intelligence, robots, sensors for the apple and the car. They have enough content and creativity, and theyre moving into china. Theyre moving into januarian, and theres enormous trade barriers. Its terrible we cant negotiate. As an example, movies. We can only import 34 movies from the United States. This is one of our biggest exporters. Sony, half of 5 billion ebida is entertainment. If i put it at 13 multiple, which is what time warner is going for, you have the market cap in it the company. I get it for flee. Interesting Artificial Intelligence robots and so owner where zplool do you own both stocks . We own direct tv. We had our at t a great job is about 12. Were waiting to see what happens next week. Well see whether we take this this year or next year. Taxfree accounts are migrating oud. Thats a different issue, okay . You know, apple at half a trillion dollar company. We like to look at what is the size and can they duplicate that over a perlt . The notion of content, and i use vertical integration and it got chewed up by new professors saying its m a and so on. I dont have a problem with that. I think were looking at the United States at a little island. You got 7 billion additional people in the world that they have not been going after. Wait until they start doing that. I can go through the math for you. Do you think regulators will approve the deal . I have them at 50 probability. What if ted wheeler winds . Whatser her name . Hillary clinton and donald trump. One of them is going to win. Who do you want to win . You know the good news . One is going to lose. The bad news is one is going to win. Independent of all of that, the fcc is going to dhak the department of justice is going to clang. 87. 50 i think time warner on its own is going to earn 7 a share in three or four years. Theyll have a great balance sheet. If they dont buy back stock, if he this do, the private market will be materially hard. I like time warner on its own, but obviously theres a mating game. Are you ducking many i question on who you want to win the election . Deal with Student Loans that are real albatross on the economy, and i havent heard any real discussions on any of these things. What does that mean . Im not going to tell you. Are you going to write in . That sounds like a Chris Christie vote to me. Im unfortunately in a state where it doesnt count. You were at the last debate, werent you . Yes. I saw a picture of you there. I know. Want issing who . I was in the middle. Is that a political answer . We want the military and infrastructure to be i want more media from you. Do we have time to do this real quick, guys . Well come back and do it after the bra ek. More media stocks ahead. Music and mexican food. Pandora chipolte hit hard. The trades are next in the blitz. The rally is just Getting Started. More halftime back in two minutes. How can good paying jobs disappear . Its what the National Debt could do to our economy. If we dont solve our debt problem 19 trillion and growing money for programs like education will shrink. In just 8 years, interest on the debt will be our Third Largest federal program. Bad news for Small Businesses. The good news . Theres still time for a solution. Ask the candidates for a plan to secure our future. Yeah. Well, we gotta hand it thto fedex. Glasses. Theyve helped make our ecommerce so easy, and now were getting all kinds of new customers. I know. Can you believe were getting orders from canada, ireland. This ones going to new zealand. New zealand . Psst. Ah, false alarm. Hey you guys are gonna scare away the deer idiots. Providing Global Access for Small Business. Fedex. Were back after missing estimates and reporting a 2 drop in comp sales. You need time to go buy without any e. Coli outbreaks. You buy on this 8 drop or no . No, i dont. Because i havent seen the turnaround in this one yet. I know you we own a little cheesecake because theyve been buying back stock, and i was there when they had the ipo, and then i own a little bit of steak in something else. Have you owned have you owned stocks like this in the past that has had whether its a health scare, other sort of incidents that you have had to sort of sit through and hope that it comes back . No, not hope. Realize that theres an air pocket and a basic navistar said they had an alternative to beat certain pollution requirements. They didnt have it. Stock dropped to seven. Our basic prem i was class a trucks would have that air pocket. What would happen, scott, was that a european company, i thought it would be avaco, which is owned by case new holland or man would buy it to get into north american markets. Volkswagen has trucked and buying it and stocks triple from the bottom. Theres a long way to go. Keep trucking. Northrop hitting a new high. Defense stocks are wall street jargon and things like food company which i happen to like. Weve underspent in this country. We have issues with iran, iraq, and crima, and south china seas. We have to spend. Our allies are going to spend. The companies that are obvious. Northrop was up sharply yesterday. Lockheed. I want to talk about the ones that arent necessarily on the radar screen. One called hair irksrris, hrs. Its got 125 million shares. Over the next three, four years they get funded on the communications and other dynamics that theyre going through. Hard, the general came out with a contract yesterday in their propulsion systems. Theres going to be a lot more. The whole ecosystem will do well. What about infrastructure . Infrastructure, whatever you are in the country, whether its drage in europe or japan and infrastructure spending. The chinese have done that. We have to offset all of the Monetary Policy and pis fiscal policy. Equipment rejs companies. 40 on 30 of our bridges are rated x in need of repair. We have Companies Like united rentals. The one i like is a spinoff. Herk Equipment Rental came out of hertz. Their margins are 28 . 38 . The oil patch stays constant at these levels, this stock is a trip. Is it possible to out of one side of ones mouth talk about the need to slash taxes at a tremendous rate and yet at the same time do the types of stimulus projects that actually will move the needle and be additive . Can we really have both . You have seen yes. The reason you cannot take a dynamic and say, look, we as a company are 4 trillion in expenditures and we raise if you reinvent the idea that nobody is going to get fired without getting educated. Yes, you can do it, and you will do it. You just got to have you got to haveered loo relationship and a guy like plank that is going to run a country like this and get rid of the bureaucracy. God bless my dreams. More with Mario Gabelli coming up. I am benedict arnold, the infamous traitor. And i know a thing or two about trading. So i trade with e trade, where true traders trade on a trademarked trade platform that has all the. Get off the computer traitor i wont. cannon sound mobility is very important to me. Thats why i use e trade mobile. Its on all my mobile devices, so it suits my mobile lifestyle and it keeps my investments fully mobile. Even when im on the move. Sign up at etrade. Com and get up to six hundred dollars. Whats Critical Thinking like . A basketball costs 14. 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Because iran has requested an exemption, as have nigeria and now iraq is requesting an exemption from cuts because theyre spending so much money fighting iisis. What are you keeping an eye on . I think scott makes some good points about whats going on in the pondering thats going on with opec and whether theres going to be cuts or not. When you take a look at it here, you are looking at the Oil Volatility index. Continuing to fall. Its up today a little bit. Basically its been on the decline. What that tells me, basically, is people becoming more comfortable with the price of oil moving higher. Wee now spending almost as many days above 47 a barrel as weve seen in the last year and a half. I think this level is an important area. Still not yet at a breakout area above that 52. 5. The trading range 4742. Any dip im a buyer of oil. Above 5250 youre in a new range . Were in a new range where you may want to look to take some off the table. Until we can break through that level and get fundamental change in the system, jon that we go significantly higher. You trade around the 15 level and buy when it goes below there. You get the final word. Think i brian is right and that we are absolutely in the middle of a range, but i think over the next week or two, well be waiting for opec until we get to that meeting at the end of november. Okay. Thank you, guys. Appreciate it very much. Check out our website for more. Futures now. Cnbc. Com. Scottie, back to you. Just ahead, the other stocks masho gabelli is watching. One thing millenials are doing a lot of these days. Im here at the Td Ameritrade trader offices. Steve, other than making me move stuff, what are you working on . Let me show you. Okay. Our thinkorswim Trading Platform aggregates all the options data you need in one place and lets you visualize that information for any options series. Okay, cool. Hang on a second. 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The carbonated soft drinks, 75 billion industry in the u. S. Sales. And basically 2 billion of that is called sparkling beverages which is like a perrier, pell greeno. This company, national beverage, located in boca, florida, has 47 million shares, the guy that runs it is 80 years old, a real tiger. He owns 80 of the company, plus or minus with his family. There is a small float. But lacroix is the product. I walked into an albertsons, they offered three cases for 13. 47. Thats 36 bottles, thats 40 cents each. To me, an attractive product, or they dont have direct sales distribution. Dont have a dsd and had some litigation in the past. They will earn 4 in change in three years and almost 15 a share in cash if they dont buy back any stock or pay any dividends. Like vodka in there . How are you drinking that . On the rocks . So you know no, no, ive been pitching bourbon for five years, we own james beam, brown i own wild turkey, which is i got to drink what i own. Casinos, which ones do you like . I notice that las vegas when i was there last week as you pointed out, i was thats right. I know. Basically the town is booming. And in addition to that, you know, there is still a toe hold in macau. If i took a company like wynn, i think you got some interesting dynamics the way depending how china goes. Mgm, jim maria has done a good job. They spun off their real estate business, except for the bellagio and one other hotel and they capitalized that, getting some currency there, doing some other interesting things. So i think mgm, last time i looked, 26 and change, and Smaller Companies that are very attractive, one owned the el draorado hotel and several othe that deal with the locals market. So we think thats a pretty good timing to get involved in these companies. We mentioned sports in the context of under armour, nike and the like. You like more sort of live event, Live Entertainment. No matter how old you are, you cant go in and watch it on this. You go to a concert, want it see beyonce, go see concerts and then in addition to that, there is a Baseball Team that is public now. The cubs and indians last night. It is the atlanta braves. Theyre not doing well, thats okay. The Public Company because malone, by the way, starting a new fund. John malone. Starting a fund called media mogul. And john is part of our ecosystem, part of an etf actively managed. In addition to that, he bought formula one. Interesting dynamics there, as he monetizes that. In addition to that, basketball, the cavs and the knicks last night playing. And Madison Square garden, you can get the knicks for free, over 2 billion. Msg selling 165. Thats all you may want to pay. They need to play better, right . Cut the arena sales out, right . Arena sells out. A billion and a half dollars in cash. What do you think its worth to that share price . This is crazy, if the knicks are a post season team this year, does that add something tangible to shareholders or not quite . What it does is it adds viewers to msgn, which they spun off. That stock has been creeping up. In part for that property then. I would think so. But it doesnt hurt that to have attendance, but the name of the game is video rights. And new york is new york and it is great to have and there is some i got to be careful, some individuals in the bureaucracy of new york city that want to move Madison Square garden. Duh, you know. I didnt invent the practical nature of people that work for all of us. Let me ask you, i have a minute left, we have asked all the guests that we have had, big investors for the last ten days or so, active versus passive investing. And this fight between the two, the fact that stock picking is dead, some people say. I agree with that. I think it is all over. Im an endangered species, give me a hug later. 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