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Lennar Forecast Disappoints in Challenging Market for Builders · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 2: Let's switch gears to the housing market. Lenar, one of
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  Speaker 2: the big home builders out there, reported some numbers. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to break that down and get a better sense
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  Speaker 2: of what's happening out there in the US housing market.
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  Speaker 2: To do that, we check with Drew Reddink. He covers
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  Speaker 2: all the housing stuff for Bloomberg Intelligence. He's safely asconced
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  Speaker 2: down there in Princeton, New Jersey. You forgot that there's
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  Speaker 2: a train into New York City from Princeton, but we'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that later. Drew, talk to us about Leonar.
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  Speaker 2: What did you hear from our folks there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a pretty tough quarter for Lenar. Orders
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  Speaker 3: were actually pretty solid there of twelve percent from last year.
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  Speaker 3: But what management said is that they can see continued
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  Speaker 3: pressure in the house market and that they had increased
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  Speaker 3: their use of sales incentives to drive traffic and demand.
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  Speaker 3: Now for a little bit of context last quarter, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll wait to see how three Q ultimately shapes out.
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  Speaker 3: But last quarter, incentives represented thirteen percent of the average
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  Speaker 3: selling price at home. By comparison, in a normal market
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  Speaker 3: that's about five to six percent, and some of the
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  Speaker 3: most important markets Florida, Texas, it's as high as seventeen
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  Speaker 3: to eighteen percent. So you could see, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: the extent of how much they're having incentivized to drive
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  Speaker 3: traffic through the doors, and we saw that ultimately play
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  Speaker 3: out in the results. Their average order price is down
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  Speaker 3: about twelve percent, and their guidance for next year, I
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  Speaker 3: excuse me for four Q was a little soft on
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  Speaker 3: the orders and delivery side of the business. Now, if
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  Speaker 3: Lenard comes out and tells us that they intentionally pull
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  Speaker 3: are intentionally pulling back on deliveries because they think they
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  Speaker 3: could capture some margin upside, I think that could be
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  Speaker 3: well received. But at the same time, their four Q
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  Speaker 3: margin guide is still weaker than ex So they did
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  Speaker 3: say they have some optimism with rates coming down in
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  Speaker 3: the FED cutting rates, but we'll be listening on the
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  Speaker 3: call to see if that's actually materializing.
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  Speaker 4: So, Drew, do you see this as isolated to Lenar
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  Speaker 4: or a broader theme here in the housing market. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: of course, we have luxury home builder Toll Brothers reporting
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  Speaker 4: about a month ago today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Lenar is a little bit of a different
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  Speaker 3: animal within the public space. You have to remember, they're
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  Speaker 3: primarily focused on driving higher sales volumes, and what they've
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  Speaker 3: said consistently over the last couple of years is that
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  Speaker 3: they're willing to sacrifice gross margin to drive volumes. So
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  Speaker 3: when you see a weakness in demand for Lenar, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to see it show up primarily in their gross margin.
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  Speaker 3: That being said, the issues that they're facing are really
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  Speaker 3: across the spectrum. I mean, no builder can get away
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  Speaker 3: from the fact that affordability continues to hover near the
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  Speaker 3: lowest levels of all time. I think that the recent
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  Speaker 3: pullback in rates will help a little bit, but in
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  Speaker 3: terms of it being you know, the silver bowl for
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  Speaker 3: the broader housing market and getting us back to normalized
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  Speaker 3: levels of demand, you know, I think I think there's
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  Speaker 3: other factors at play that prevent that from happening immediately.
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  Speaker 4: So drew rates remain incredibly high, especially for the average
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  Speaker 4: home buyers. So what do you make of the fact
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  Speaker 4: that the S one to five home The index at
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  Speaker 4: tract home builders is up thirteen percent.
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  Speaker 2: You're today, Yeah, great question.
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  Speaker 3: And if you look at how the stocks have behaved
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  Speaker 3: really since mid June, they're up over thirty percent, and
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  Speaker 3: that was really the stocks moving in anticipation of rates
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  Speaker 3: coming down. In the FED cutting rates, you could also
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  Speaker 3: see that and how mortgage rates have responded. They moved
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  Speaker 3: up ahead of the rate cut, and if you look
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  Speaker 3: at where rates are today, actually they're up twenty five
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  Speaker 3: basis points since the FED cut. It's kind of reminiscent
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  Speaker 3: of the last time they cut when rates, you know,
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  Speaker 3: rallied pretty low ahead of the rate cut and then
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  Speaker 3: after that actually came in, you saw rates move back higher.
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  Speaker 3: So I certainly think that, you know, builder stocks are
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  Speaker 3: always going to react to rates. The group right now
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  Speaker 3: is trading at about one point nine times book. There's
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  Speaker 3: an old rule of thumb in the industry that you
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  Speaker 3: buy the builders at one one times, you sell them
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  Speaker 3: at two times. Certainly, there have been cases where they've
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  Speaker 3: traded outside those ranges over the last twenty years or so,
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  Speaker 3: but what has been pretty consistent is that once they
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  Speaker 3: get to that kind of two point two to and
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  Speaker 3: a quarter times book, there has been resistance from evaluation perspective,
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  Speaker 3: so it's something to keep an eye on.
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  Speaker 2: Drew talk to us about the existing home market today.
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  Speaker 2: How's that is? Are people that are sitting on their homes?
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  Speaker 2: Are they any incentive to get out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Great question. I mean, the existing home market is
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  Speaker 3: still pretty much frozen. Volumes are twenty to twenty five
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  Speaker 3: percent below what would be considered normal, And you're right,
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  Speaker 3: the incentive just isn't there. You have, you know, fifty
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  Speaker 3: to seventy five percent of mortgages are below four and
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  Speaker 3: a half percent, So even as the headline rate comes
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  Speaker 3: down to six and a quarter, we're still talking about
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  Speaker 3: a pretty big delta. When you layer on top of
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  Speaker 3: that that, you know, it's not just the rate they're
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  Speaker 3: trading in, but home prices are up fifty percent from
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  Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. So when you look at the total cost
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  Speaker 3: of ownership, factoring in property taxes and higher insurance costs,
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  Speaker 3: that monthly payment is significantly higher.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so, I mean, I'm going to speak for
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  Speaker 2: the normal lenders of the world, the Sebastians of the world.
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  Speaker 2: How are young people getting into the ownership these days?
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  Speaker 2: You get about thirty second Street to fix this problem
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a great question, and afraid to kick. Can't be
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  Speaker 3: fixed that quick. But what we're actually seeing is a
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  Speaker 3: significant shift towards the rental market. If you look at
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  Speaker 3: household formations over the last quarter, household growth was exclusively
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  Speaker 3: driven by renner occupied units. So it has become increasingly challenging,
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  Speaker 3: and we see that the rental market has been the beneficiary.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I mean, Sebastian Nora. I feel
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  Speaker 2: for you, guys. I don't know how the young folks
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  Speaker 2: today take forever are going to do it. If you're
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  Speaker 2: reading a home building analyst of Bloomberg Intelligence, thanks so
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  Speaker 2: much for joining us. He's down there in Prince of
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey again, Leonora fill the effects of kind of
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a tougher market at their rates
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  Speaker 2: come down a little bit, but they're still, you know,
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  Speaker 2: higher than a lot of people want them to be.
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  Speaker 2: And still these new homebuilders have to, you know, supply
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  Speaker 2: a lot of incentives just to get people into the homes.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll stay on top of that. Stay with us.
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  Speaker 2: So obviously some big news out there in Hollywood. ABC
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  Speaker 2: pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show, I guess indefinitely. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: what that means over some content that some folks found objectionable.
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  Speaker 2: And this feature the chairman of the FCC, the Federal
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  Speaker 2: Communications Commission, which is responsible for licensing television stations across
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  Speaker 2: the country, mister Brendan Carr playing a pretty big role,
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  Speaker 2: getting the support also of President Trump. Let's see how
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  Speaker 2: this plays out from a regultary perspective. Matthew Shechittenhelm, He's
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  Speaker 2: immediate litigation analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. Matt talk to us
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  Speaker 2: about the role that the FCC and the chairman, mister Carr,
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  Speaker 2: are playing in what appears to be, I guess a
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  Speaker 2: free speech issue with the ABC television network.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, Paul Win.
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  Speaker 6: When you saw Brendan Carr go on that podcast the
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  Speaker 6: other day, he was stressing the FCC's role as the
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  Speaker 6: regulator of the broadcast TV stations that are all across
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  Speaker 6: the country that have to get a license to carry
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  Speaker 6: their content, and the law says that they have to
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  Speaker 6: act in the public interest. And Brendan Carr has been
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  Speaker 6: taking a very aggressive approach to the meaning of what
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  Speaker 6: is in the public interest. We have a long history
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  Speaker 6: under that provision of the law goes back.
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  Speaker 5: To Nixon, the Reagan era.
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  Speaker 6: Historically, the FCC used to look at whether broadcasters were
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  Speaker 6: being fair or not and whether they were being balanced.
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  Speaker 6: They've largely gotten out of that business. Brendan Carr seems
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  Speaker 6: to be reinvigorating the push to get into broadcast content
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  Speaker 6: decisions that you know, and and so this was a
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  Speaker 6: threat to Disney that this is this is potentially a
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  Speaker 6: distortion of the news by broadcasting these comments on on
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  Speaker 6: on Jimmy Kimmel's show that sort of triggered action first
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  Speaker 6: from smaller companies Next Star and Sinclair, and then Disney
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  Speaker 6: followed along.
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  Speaker 4: So, I know you mentioned that the FCC likely couldn't
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  Speaker 4: have found a news distortion violation by Disney or any
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  Speaker 4: of the other broadcasters based specifically on Kimmel's comments. Do
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  Speaker 4: you mind expanding a bit there?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I'm really skeptical that that would have gone anywhere.
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  Speaker 6: That the FCC's news distortion rule is extremely narrow. First
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  Speaker 6: of all, it applies to news. Uh, there's there's a
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  Speaker 6: direct FCC decision that says, look, we're not going to
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  Speaker 6: apply this to an entertainment program. And then even with
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  Speaker 6: respect to news, it's very limited to the FCC needs
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  Speaker 6: to see evidence that management of the station knew what
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  Speaker 6: it was saying was false and ran the story anyway. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 6: the FCC has said, look, we need to get out
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  Speaker 6: of the way of editorial decisions, leave breathing room for
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  Speaker 6: news to do their job. That's historically been the approach,
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  Speaker 6: and Brendan Carr is working against that precedent. What this
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  Speaker 6: was really about, though, is these companies need to stay
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  Speaker 6: in the good graces of the FCC. It's not so
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  Speaker 6: much the threat that the FCC is going to win
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  Speaker 6: on a case like this. These companies need the FCC
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  Speaker 6: to finish a couple rulemakings that are deregulating the whole sector,
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  Speaker 6: and so if the FCC asked them to do something,
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  Speaker 6: they have a strong incentive to do it because they
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  Speaker 6: want other actions from this FCC that will help their business.
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  Speaker 2: Does that partially explain to some degree the actions from
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  Speaker 2: Next Star, which is one of the largest owners of
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  Speaker 2: TV stations in the country, and they have a pending
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  Speaker 2: acquisition of Tegna, which is a TV broadcasting company that's
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  Speaker 2: in front of the FCC.
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  Speaker 5: Right now, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 6: And so that's a six billion dollar deal, and it
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  Speaker 6: depends on the FCC easing a rule.
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  Speaker 5: Right now, there's an.
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  Speaker 6: FCC rule on the book that says you can only
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  Speaker 6: reach about thirty nine percent of US households. This deal
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  Speaker 6: would reach seventy percent or eighty percent of US households.
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  Speaker 6: They need the FCC not only to approve the deal,
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  Speaker 6: but to scrap that rule first.
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  Speaker 5: If they don't do that, the deal's going nowhere.
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  Speaker 6: And so when Brendan Carr goes on this podcast and
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  Speaker 6: says local stations, would you please do this? You saw
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  Speaker 6: an almost immediate response from Next Star and Sinclair, followed
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  Speaker 6: by a thank you from Brendan Carr.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what's the likelihood of this deal being approved?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, of course that would be massive to have
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  Speaker 4: that amount of way ownership there.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, all signals are that this deregulation will move ahead
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  Speaker 6: at the FCC. This has been a priority for Republicans
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  Speaker 6: in FCC circles for a long time, and I think
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  Speaker 6: it will advance. There is a very difficult legal question
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  Speaker 6: looming as to whether the FCC can change that thirty
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  Speaker 6: nine percent cap. There's a strong argument on the other
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  Speaker 6: side that Congress must do it, and I think we're
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  Speaker 6: going to have a tough court fight on exactly that issue.
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  Speaker 6: I think the FCC probably can win that fight, but
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  Speaker 6: it might depend on what court ends up hearing it,
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  Speaker 6: what set of three judges ends up hearing it first.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Matt, thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate
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  Speaker 2: it as always. Matt Chuttenholm, he's media litigation analyst. He's
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  Speaker 2: kind of really the litigation and the regulatory guye that
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  Speaker 2: we chat with when it comes to all things related
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  Speaker 2: to the media and the regulation of the media. And
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  Speaker 2: clearly this is a big issue for the ABC Television network,
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  Speaker 2: for Walt Disney in general, and of course other parties
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  Speaker 2: involved there, whether it be next to our Sinclaarence, some others.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll keep an eye on that, but it's certainly
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  Speaker 2: a big news, a big piece of news in the
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  Speaker 7: investment is doing now is that they're hedging their bets.
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  Speaker 7: They know that nuclear is going to take off, and
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: now they're beginning to bet on companies. And there's already
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: a sort of a convergence of you know, in a
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: hot sector, you'll have twenty companies come out of the woodwork,
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: but already they're sort of being squeezed down to a
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: handful of leading companies and we're one of them. And
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: that's why you're seeing like this huge market interest in
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: US because it's it's positioning. Everyone's positioning themselves for essentially
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: the future.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Well, we definitely touched on your stock performance. Here, tell
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: me what sets you apart from your competitors though.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: So, I mean, we've kept things very simple. We know
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: that the technology we're utilizing is going to work. High
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: temperature gas reactors have been used for decades. All we're
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: doing is scaling them down. But on top of that,
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: we're actually utilizing a special form of fuel which eliminates
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: the necessity the necessity to have all these redundant safety
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: systems you can co locate with. If it was a
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: data center in AI, you could be pressed right up
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: against them. You could even be sited in the middle
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: of a population center. There's no risk to anybody around
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: you because the reactor has no chance of having a meltdown,
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: and conventional civil nuclear power plant can. So it's a
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: very different kind of tech and so and already more
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: novel techs I think having a bit of a struggle, whereas,
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: for instance, high temperature gas reactors that utilize try so
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: that seems to be almost the most popular model amongst
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: developers at the moment. And so we've got that, but
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: our key One of our better strategies is that we've
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: made a reactor as big as you can possibly make
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: it and still move all the components by road, and
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: that means we will be able to have factory level
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: processes that just continuously manufacture these things. We can ship
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: everything by road, assemble it there, and then we don't
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: need to have big construction as big construction projects at
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: the site itself with individual licensing processes. So we're simplifying
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: things as much as we possibly can. That's why we've
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: proven to be pretty popular.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at kind of what's moving your stock here.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I know that you guys recently signed a letter of
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: intent for the proposed sale of its odin low pressure
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: currant micro designed to Cambridge adam Or, a UK based
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: company talked to us about that deal.
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  Speaker 7: So that we were streamlining the company. We have a
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: reactor called the Kronos reactor. That's our that's our flagship product.
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: That's the one we'll be building at University of Illinois
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: and at Chalk River in Canada. And the other reactors
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: that we were developing, like the low Key reactor and
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: the Zeus reactor, they were also high temperature gas reactors.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: So the Odium reactor, it's a fantastic system, but we
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: we let the team, the technical team take that on
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: to develop themselves so we can concentrate fully on that
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: Kronos reactor, so that that streamlining of the organization is
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: obviously very important. We're scaling up very quickly, but we're
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: going to need, you know, ninety five percent of our
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: technical personnel working on this Kronos reactor. And when you're
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: focused like that and building, you know, it does have
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: a positive market influence.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: All right. James A is a former investment banker. I
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: would say take advantage of the stock price and sell
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: some stock, but I see you have been selling stock periodically,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: so good for you. Good source of capital here. James Walker,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: CEO on board matter of a Nano Nuclear Energy. It
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: is a puply traded company NNE. I'm kind of one
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: of those folks to say, I think nuclear has got
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: to be part of the energy solution because all I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: hear from these data centers, there are gonna be tons
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: and tons of energy going forward, and I guess nuclear
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: is going to be a part of that to some extent.
• 20:17
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