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Welcome to squawk alley for your wednesday morning im Carl Quintanilla with julia bore steen, mike san tolely with us for the hour dow is lagging down 60 jackson hole tomorrow, of course, were watching hurricane laura, the retailers but mike, crm, continues to astound. We thought 20 gain was impressive its now at session highs of 27 today alone on what bloomberg called the best revenue surprise in a decade. Yeah. Its pretty remarkable obviously the results themselves are emboldening people to say that this was as expensive as the stock has always looked undervalued or misvalued or didnt appreciate the durability of what theyre doing on the market share side of things for the longterm. What is interesting, too, if you look at it compared to some of the other software bell weathers over the last couple years, as big as todays move is, its kind of a catchup if you look at how microsoft and adobe in particular their anointing crm into that class inpenetrable areas that seem like theyre goi
Under valued it sounds crazy. We had a remarkable blitz up we just came after that brutal sell off all the buyers vanished. Now suddenly were back dow surging 328 points and s p jumping and nasdaq pulled 1. 87 . Why . Why did it happen . Why was so great today because today is merger monday monday used to be the day we always came in and merged and stopped. Guess what its back and bigger than ever so i bought out the merger both. Merger. Merger merger. Yes i havent used the merger both, i dont know, four or five years and its back. All right, all right, all right. Back and bigger than ever. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out what stocks are worth, right the price to earnings. Price to sales and book value. All that stuff we try to do. There is another way to value this business. You look at what another business might be willing to pay for that business and today we got a wave of huge mind numbing deals that suggest there are many real bargains in mna. Merger. Merger merger. L
As well as declines in cases across the u. S. Not just big tech winners, jawdropping moves for individual stocks. Roku up 11 . Dicks Sporting Goods up 15. Urban outfitters up 20 weve got them all covered for you. 59 minutes left, what is set to be another record close for s p and nasdaq all we need is a positive finish kayla, welcome. Thank you, sara thank you for having me. Feels like record finishes every senile day we have a great lineup of ceo interviews coming your way on the rest of the show well me with the head of Toll Brothers about his companys strong Earnings Results and whether the Housing Market can keep topping expectations over and over again plus shares of crocs you heard me up. Up 300 just since march we will ask that companys ceo what is driving the foam footwear boom. And also the ceo of etsy says amazon is trying to wipe out its competition by supporting a New California Consumer Protection bill he will join us to discuss that and much more. Its a big show today. Bu
Swapping out pfizer for amgen. Raytheon youll hear later today. The largest oil and gas company with one software play dropping a respected drug company for a descent biotech . Kicking a defense contractor to the curb for an industrial if it makes you scratch your head, youre not alone these changes had enormous impact the dow dipping 60 points and the s p dipped and nasdaq gained 6. 7 in all honesty, these moves made a lot of sense they bring the dow closer to the reality of the new cone economyt the memory of the old. Before i delve into each trade, there is an aspect of the dow like the king to the s p 500 Prime Minister same t simultaneously more prestigious. Only included the dow because i had old investors regarded as the most important benchmark we live in the efts of trillions of dollars and whatever name gets swapped in, there is a gigantic wave of buying and selling. The dow has little money invested in etfs its a big deal if you work for them because this is an exclusive clu