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te the fact that it's going into a jewish holiday tonight and tomorrow. technology once again adding onto yesterday's momentum up better than one percent. the s&p picks up 13 and a third points. 1653 is where the index closes out. thanks for watching. stay with cnbc. here is "fast money" now. >> live from the nasdaq market site in new york city's times square i'm melissa lee. our traders are dan nathan karen finerman and mike khouw. over the great wall. we all know about the apple event next week. could the bigger deal actually with the day after, september 11. could this be the long awaited mobile deal in china.
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more importantly is this the game changer for the stock. here's what brian marshall said today. >> if you think about it china mobile is the world's largest carrier from a wireless subscription standpoint. over 740 million subscribers. this could be a huge mover for the company. >> he said this could mean 5 million new iphones in the december quarter alone. >> when all these iphone 5 c and s leaked out the stock sold off. investors thought it was going to be a run-of-the-mill upgrade. everyone was waiting for that 700 million china mobile deal. what brian doesn't say is there are 180 million users on their network that this 5 c is going to be made for. this is the exact sort of gee graphic exchanges this this
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company needs right now for this product that is facing a high end saturation in the market. >> there has been so much talk about a potential deal with china mobile. are they really going to talk about an event in beijing if there were not a deal made? guy? >> i think that's exactly the point. if they talk about that and don't have a deal that would be, i think, not catastrophic but would speak to their inability to speak to wall street ever since mr. jobs passed away. they have to have something in place. we talked to collin gillis last night. they didn't seem that enthusiastic about it. the ka pit lags was in june and 465 is still my line in the sand. we said it last night. you can continue to own that stock into that announcement. >> karen, would you buy or add
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to your position ahead of this event? >> if i'm holding it tonight that is socialessentially adding it right now. i think your question is an excellent one. i don't know that they manage their business to generate stock price movement. i think it's very much the other way around. so i think we don't know what they're going to announce. hope it is that. >> it seems that the china announcement has lit the fire under the stock. it's still having trouble getting over 500 here which is a little bit of a concern. it's been lagging a few days. the expectations are very high for the stock dmis clee. the china news raising expectations further. if you are long the stock you're really hoping that you're seeing both of these events and the recent lagging of the stock is people pricing in the poor performance you typically see after a new product
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introduction. >> if you look back at i tim cook's tenure if this beijing announcement doesn't come this stock is going to go back to guy's level. the last thing, high end smart phone saturation the last thing that u.s. consumers need to do is choose between an iphone 5 c and 5 s. because people who are coming up to speed now they will choose that lower price that has the potential to be the lower margin project. >> mike khouw, i want to go to you because we have these two things, a push and a pull here. in the u.s. we have an can ballization of this new iphone to a lower cost phone and at the same time you have the push of a china business. where does the stock go? >> i think clearly the two things that you want to see are you want to see a bigger market share or a bigger market and obviously you want to see some kind of effort to maintain the
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margins. the margin issue, it doesn't appear they're going to be able to keep that. you obviously need to see a significant increase in how many you're selling if your margins decline, say from the high 30s to 26 percent which is probably consistent with their competitors. i think they needed to do this. i have an expectation that the stock will probably be soft after the upcoming announcements. there is quite a lot of volatility surrounding those events. i don't know that there is any reason to race out and buy the stock right here. >> in terms of margins versus increased revenues, how do you weigh that as an investor. as everybody points you you introduce a lower phone it's going to mean lower margin pressure but increased revenue. how do you weigh that? >> if there is more certainty and a longer tailwind for lower margin but more sales, i think that should deserve as much a multiple to get you to equal
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with higher price but i don't know that t ml agree with that. it's worth it to me. >> they have given up the margin game. the last couple of quartsers, margins are probably going to turn the wrong way so you have to go after the high market business if they pull this off. >> let's switch gears and talk about blackberry. there were reports earlier today that blackberry is looking to find a buyer by november. dow jones industrial average reporting that blackberry has whittled down its list of potential buyers. a pop of 5.25 percent here. whenever you have a sniff of a rumor the stock moves. paul, who is left to buy this thing? >> i don't know. the company seems desperate here. the last six months they become more and more concern that yes, we are really for sale, please buy us. the whittling of the list i don't know how big that list is but if you are holding the stock
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you have high hopes for it and i think those high hopes are too high. >> i think it's sort of an odd announcement. we talked about it being called an auction. i wonder if it should be called a fire sale makes you wonder if they're unable to get a deal done by november probably can't be a great thing. i don't get why this is great news for the stock. it's been for sale forever. they put a timetable on it we should rally on it? >> we had a street fight last night that steve made exactly the point that what is happening right now. you see the stock rally six, seven percent. a lot of people use this as an opportunity to short it again. that's pronl the right trade. steve made an excellent point last name. >> some are going to say blackberry has intellectual property ipo, patents. is it worth something. >> we saw microsoft got a a
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billion dollars for their ipo. at the end of the day there aren't too many people assigning a value much higher. to me these guys make great points. sooner or later there are so few guys that are going to buy the whole and they may wait for it to dwindle away and buy off pieces of it. half the market cap is in cash. aside from that people are not placing a premium on what they got. >> they have sniffed this stock already and taken alook at what's under the hood. >> there is been a lot of sniffing but not much biting. >> let's trade the smart phone wars here because you don't necessarily need to buy the smart phone makers. guy? >> verizon, we talked about it last night and they got an upgrade today.
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the stock has been underperforming for the last couple of weeks, maybe in anticipation of this vodafone deal. it had a nice day today, the selloff has been significant enough where i think you can buy it. the trade is a bigger valuation than at&t i know but it's probably a more valuable entity. >> karen? >> i'm long apple and i'm long google, too, which is somewhat of a -- >> the android side of the story. paul? >> we were talking about smart phone wars so why don't we focus on companies supplying the chips. sky works, apple is one of their biggest customers but samsung is their second biggest customer. the stock broke resistance up to 25. you can play it up to 30. >> i don't like the component suppliers for the very reason we talked about at the beginning of the show here. margins are coming down. all the suppliers get squeesed. to me i'm with karen.
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if the stock, apple pulls back five to ten percent, it's the usual sell on the news sort of thing. you buy this stock in the mid 400 range because you have the activist put. this is going to be the big part of the story. >> why because the stock is so big an doesn't have the power to do anything. >> listen they have a third of the market cap in cash. they have this amazing ability to capture investor enthusiasm. to me i think it's going to be a stock that's bought on dips. i don't own it but i think it's a good stock to own for all the financial engineers reason. if they ever get wearable technology or apple tv or something else we haven't thought of yet, you could see the stock move up 25 30 percent. >> mike khouw? >> qualcomm is going to come up with wearable technology. i think that these are actually probably priced in these concerns that dan was just
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expressing. i like qualcomm here. >> let's talk about the smart watch. galaxy gear it's called. i know one person who is definitely not going to get this. >> you're talking about me. how do you know i don't have it already. i got the prototype back home. >> a cass yoe is not the same. >> that was very funny by her. >> i think it's interesting. garmin, everybody tries to shoot against them because it's become their products but garmin is much more than a thing you have in your car. they have a lot of the same stuff you have right now. if you want to play this garmin is the way. if you look at the stock it's been a monster over the last six months. my play is grmn. >> who better to talk about the smart phone wars and the ever increasing competition than one of the biggest chip makers in the game qualcomm which
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unveiled its own smart watch today. chairman and ceo paul jack observe will join us. regis philbin warned you of micron. >> i was the first one to tell you that and i heard scoffing and mocking. >> you're right. >> and it's climbed over 8. god knows where it's going to go from here. >> have you seen grasso im tat regis doing micron? >> micron! >> who better to talk micron's rise than it is man himself. plus we are tracking the great american turn around story, that is the u.s. auto makers a look at the big sales makers for august next. cottrade's online banking, i get one view of my bank and brokerage accounts with one login... to easily move my money when i need to. plus, when i call my local scottrade office
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that's the pace of sales. again, that's the strongest since november of '07. really when you look at all the auto makers they did better than the street expected. you're looking at double dinl it gains across the board. a few of them stick out, particularly the asian auto makers. nissan up 22 percent, toyota up 22 percent, 26 percent for honda. that's really what was driving the sales. i have a stat at the end that's going to catch your attention. auto makers say there was strength across the board, cars and trucks. the average transaction price in august topped $31,000. ford says it's going to be increasing its production in the fourth quarter by 7 percent, that's 50,000 vehicles 785,000 vehicles is how many ford will be building in the north american region the next quarter. that's the highest since the ceo
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changed. that's why investors are looking at ford and gm and saying maybe we need to get in on those names. all the auto makers were up. i promised you one stat that will get your attention. think about this. in the month of august the big three sold 44.1 percent of the vehicles in the u.s. asian brands and we're talking japan, korea and when you look at volvo being owned by a chinese company, 48.7 percent. there you have it. >> i have a question for you. i listen to gms call. it seems like they could have sold more cars had they had inventory available where they needed it. >> yep. and karen, they're cautious about how much they're going to raise production. in fact, they wouldn't give out a number today. i've been told by executives that, yes, they are increasing
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production in some cases where they can add it on certainly models but they want to be careful that they don't have too much supply so they'd rather believe leave a few sales than have too much supply on the showroom floors. the other thing that stood out about that call karen, the enthusiasm for the trend going forward. they said that this is here 16 million. it's not a one month spike. it's going to be for the foreseeable future. >> thank you very much for that. so we got this sort of double whammy here of increasing sales or increased projected sales and discipline when it comes to adding production on. >> you can see how you get positive operating leverage there. gm which was up five percent today, i still think it's attractive here, wouldn't sell it. >> options traders making big bets that ford will continue to accelerate through the beginning of next year. mike what did you see? >> one of the trades were buyers
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of the march 18 call spread. they were paying about 15 cents for that. the numbers that i saw on the auto sales that were interesting to me was that car and truck sales were actually up comparable amounts, about 18 percent. trucks obviously are a high profit margin area for ford and for general motors so that's a real positive. >> paul if you had to pick one space, what would it with? >> ford. we love ford here. >> the biggest movers of the session. dollar general up four percent. >> after not so great retail numbers dollar general had a very good earnings report up to -- they kept their guidance the same. >> pop for jcpenney up six percent. >> ackman is out and a couple
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other hedge funds are in. it wouldn't see me to see our other friend carl icahn. i think the business is disaster but it has some business in the upside. >> drop for microsoft down two percent. >> continues in a 11 percent decline since the ballmer replacement announcement two weeks ago. this is one that's really not a well liked deal. this nokia deal continues to go lower. if it gets to 30 prior to their september 19 financial analyst meeting probably take a shot on the low side. >> ciena. >> reasonable earnings coming out of that company and guidance for q 4 and they're looking for a range of 550 to $580 million. the street's view was 550. this is obviously looking good for the end of the year. that said i'm not inclined to
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chase the stock. >> pop for e-trade. >> they have regulatory approval for the bank to pay a dividend to the parent company. that's going to deleverage the balance sheet but the stock is up almost as much as micron. keep a tight spot around 15. >> we a pop for fried soup. just when you thought there was nothing left to deep fry, kfc japan introduced their deep fried balls of corn soup. the friters are the latest in the food trend. other deep fried favorites include mars bars cheese cake and even cool aid. >> you're making that up. >> there are pictures. >> because it's in the prompter doesn't mean you have to read it. deep fried cool aid, how do you do that? >> probably freeze the cool aid.
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>> don't do that at home. if you want to dye your hair though girls, cool aid works really well. >> don't listen to him. deeper dive into the smart phone wars so deep we are going inside the actual hand sets with one of the biggest makers in the game. plus, as micron hits a new seven year high how does tv icon regis philbin feel about one of his favorite plays in the market. find out when he joins us after the break. stay tuned.
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>> let's take a look at one of the stocks topping today's tape. micron trading at levels not seen since november of 2006 getting a boost after a competitor suspended operations at a chinese factory after reports of a fire. should you buy the momentum. let's ask our long time champion, the one and only regis philbin. always nice to speak with you. >> nice to be with you guys. >> what do you do with micron now? >> i have been trying for a long time to introduce micron tech to you but nobody listens to regis, you know that. now here it is on a rampage. i think it's headed to 18 maybe to 20 but again, nobody listens to me. it's only up five percent today. still guy adami looks down at it. >> rooej, you're so wrong. you got me confused with your wife or something. i said you should be long with
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the stock when it was trading 8 bucks. was this the catalyst? the stock traded tremendous volume today. are you still rolling the bones here? >> i'm staying with it. we're just beginning, adami, it's all ahead of us. >> even from a portfolio management perspective regis, to guy's point of view shouldn't you trim and add later when the stock goes down? isn't that the smart thing to do? >> sure i guess it is but i really think it's got a little more leverage and will go higher and maybe i'll consider that. the last time i was with you i was worried about apple. i'm still worried about apple. regis is in deep. since icahn got involved i kind of like the stock more and it's up ten points to the. >> your alma mater is in deep. notre dame initial initial -- michigan i know you'll be in
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front of the tv. >> i know we're down according to las vegas. it's going to be a tight game. it's not going to be easy. >> regis, a lot of viewers are watching and thinking i should have listened to regis when it came to micron. what else are you looking at? >> you saw the car sales growing today. you know what that means, so does sirius so i think that's on its way to a five or six or maybe seven before the year is up. i really mean it. >> regis likes sirius good. >> you guys like sirius at all? >> are you on it? >> yes, of course. >> if you are on it i like it. >> as a stock, dan nathan, what do you think? >> that's a great point. if you are telling me those things come in for free in the first -- to me that has a
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potential if we have this new renaissance for car sales for u.s. car sales, it makes sense. i think it's an expensive stock and i'm not sure this is one that you want to pay a high multiple for. >> it's under $4 but i'm getting to like nathen. >> i feel the same way. regis, you should come by the studio sometimes. i know you're guest hosting but if you have time you're welcome. >> if i have a wednesday off, i will. thanks a lot. say hello to everyone. love you all. >> love you too, regis. of course be sure to watch regis's new show crowd goes wild on fox sports. >> he's a stud. he's got a set, man. you got to love regis. put that in your highlight real. >> let's move on. qualcomm countering samsung with the announcement of its soon to
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>> welcome back to "fast money." we're live at the nasdaq market site in times square. shares of zillow hitting all-time highs in today's session. the stock is up 262 percent so far this year. so can they keep going. time for a street fight. guy is the bull dan is the bear. >> dan is going to make great points but let me make my bull points. they just priced a secondary at $82. that's a great tell to me. the second quarter was fantastic. web traffic was up, total traffic up 60 percent in the second quarter. it was up 47 percent year over year. so that growth continues. james packer of the packer
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family just took a huge stake in the stock. there is a monster short interest in the stock, 37 percent. nobody believes in it valuation is ridiculous but that's been the argument for the last 30 40, $50. i think the momentum is behind it and the stock can continue to go higher. >> big guy, here's the big, mr. packer, the packer family he's the second largest shareholder. i think he bought 9 million shares. to me the company sold stock at 82 below that. this is a greater fool's thing to me. i don't know how in anyone's right mind of 265 percent you can buy a company that's trading at 23 times their sales. that's absolutely unheard of multiple of the stock. to me you want to buy stocks like this when they're building up steam and getting ready to break out. when you look at that chart back in the spring and summer that was the time to buy. this is a high short interest like guy said the top ten shareholders control 60 percent of this thing. so the thing has been a moon
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shot. you don't buy stocks when they go parabolic. the other point i want to make 23 times sales, this is not a high tech company. they still rely on people calling real estate agents. >> they're monetizing their subscribers better. >> what if the home builders are telling us the housing thing is over -- >> what if the sun didn't rise in the east what if what if. >> we had to get the verdict, paul hickey, who do you say won? >> dan makes great points but if you are a trader on this stock you can continue to hold the stock so i would go with guy. have tight stops and a set as guy was saying earlier. >> what do you think? tweet us let us know who you thought won our street fight @cnbc using hashtag bull
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or bear. the smart phone cars rage on as competition gets even more fierce. who will come out on top? let's get an inside look from the qualcomm uplink conference joining us is the ceo. >> we're going to talk smart phones but the latest thing what everybody is talking about today, smart watches, qualcomm announced that today. i want to start off talking about this watch, pretty cool. i'm excited about the battery life in this thing and the fact that its visible in bright sunlight. is this going to be the device? it hasn't caught on before but this is pretty cool. >> we're doing this in a limited edition to show the power of mere soul for wearable devices and we'll go on and work with
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other partners as time goes on to get that display technology out there. it's super important that you can glance down the screen is always on. you go outside you can't read your smart phone screen but you can see this and then you get multiple days of battery life. >> size this market for me. is it millions of units and how much can qualcomm make off of this? does this have the potential to be a significant business? >> for us what's going to be the significant business really is telling mirasol. some of them buy the guts of their swiss watches from another manufacturer and then they put the jewelry around it and that's what we're thinking going forward that that will be the model f. if consumers love this watch and it takes off we'll re-evaluate and work with partners but this is our way of cat liesing this industry getting this category going and showing that you can use it all the time. >> should we think about this in the sense of sysco's strategy of
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platform where people are using the screen, they're also more likely to use qualcomm's wireless, low powered chips, et cetera. is this a way to pull people in? >> that's accurate. we really believe in this notion that you are going to walk around the world and wireless and connectivity and sensors are going to be embedded in the world around you and as you go around the world and things get notifications to you, it's not like you're going to want to log in but this one is tied to my wrist. it's not like i'm going to leave it on the table and walk away from it. having that platform is really cool and that's the next generation of mobile experiences that we'll get. >> melissa has a question? >> paul you picked a very interesting day to unveil this new smart watch, the same day that the galaxy gear is being
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unveiled. what are the reactions from your customers who find themselves competing? are you concerned that they will pull their business away from you and go in-house? >> no. i think that that's the reason why we're doing it as a limited edition. we really wanted to get out there and show what's possible in the wearable space, but we expect to work with our partners going forward. we had a consumer products business in the past. samsung was a competitor back then. we made the decision then that they were probably better at the consumer products than we were. as we go forward you'll see us working with a set of partners around these technologists. by the way, it's not just the display technology. we also have wireless charging technology in here and also this really cool stereo blue tooth capability. right now you have to have a wire connecting the head sets. we found a way to make it work perfectly in stereo and
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synchronized. >> i got to ask you about microsoft nokia. i'm sorry, i'm sure melissa wants to ask, too. i know we're limited on time. what does it say about the market what you have got platform makers like google buying motorola and microsoft buying nokia and what does it could do to qualcomm. >> it's a great analogy but they're still having a play. i think the high level operating system guys want to do is show much like what we're doing with talk, show the way that things can be done. now, of course they're building full of consumer products business or in the case of nokia it's been a business that's got a great emerging markets story and other stories that microsoft can leverage. i don't think it's a fundamental shift away from horizontal to vertical models but it's showing
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that the operating system guys want to show the world this is what we think can be done with these software platforms. >> how does qualcomm view the wearable computer segment. is it a potential threat to your other chips, such as laptops or smart phones. does it add to the number of chips that you are selling or at the end of the day is it a wash? it definitely adds to it. this smart watch is actually lyly synced to my smart phone. it's just easier to get access to notifications and all these things from something that's on my wrist and always on. so i see it as actually making the devices that we carry around more useful. of course this has a much smaller screen so you will have people who buy devices that are phones tablets, small and medium and large tablets.
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i think it's the size of the screen that will determine the find of devices that somebody wants to carry. after that we're talking about the internet of everything, chips that will go in other devices. by the way we have a software platform which allows notifications to be sent from all sorts of different devices, some of which will show up on my watch. >> paul, thanks for being here with us. toss it back to you guys. >> thank you. we should mention internet of everything by the way they have a document coming up called rise of the machines on cnbc september 18th so watch for that. coming up wall street today giving this momentum stock a positive review. we're talking to the ceo of angie's list. that's next.
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>> our traders are quick but not always right. in june guy made a bearish bet on dollar tree. listen. >> another stock that continues to defy lodge it here. all these -- pete talks about t.j. max family.
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i wouldn't chase it on the back of this show. >> since that call the stock is up 13 percent. >> what were you laughing at? >> i'm dying to know. i don't remember. >> it felt like it was just one of those moves where it exhausted itself and it is seemed for a brief period of time -- if you look at the month of june it traded sideways. it's gotten its momentum back. bad call bad one. >> let's switch gears. today wall street is giving angie's list a positive review. upgrading saying the recent pull back is a strong opportunity for investors to get in. angie's list surging 117 percent over the past 52 weeks. let's bring in the ceo billow -- bill oesterle. what does that say for your business and their willingness
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to stick around? >> we have developed a lasting relationship with our members. their renewals and propensity to stick around have increased this year. >> we should note that wall street is extremely positive on your stock in general but there is one wall street firm that has accelerating on your stock and they point out the concern with the churn rate. as of the latest quarter they said you have essentially a 7 percent churn rate if you look at gross paid editions and net editions. net being 211,000. can you address that because this is a momentum stock and people are looking for reasons to not be bullish on the stock. can you address that for us? >> sure. any sophisticated analysis of our churn rates, we provide cohort analysis so you can see that the cohorts are improving. they're looking at an average churn number which is a meaningless number. anyone who has fold the company
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for a long period of time looked at the information we provide can see the steady improvement in retention numbers that we have. >> how are you leveraging your relationship with your subscribesers in terms of increaseing revenues? >> we are kpakding the types of services. we started as a marketplace for information and now we ary turning into a marketplace for services, the complete service. so we actually executed something like 116,000 transactions directly on our platform last quarter. that was a dramatic increase from previous quarters. that's increasing our -- deepening our relationship with the members and increasing monetization. >> can you gifve us a time frame in which you will remain consistently profitable. since your ipo you have posted
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mixed results. >> we have a long tail on our revenue and high gross margins. so gap tends to not match expenses well in our particular case, but those gross margins are embedded so at any point as the growth of the company even moderates a little bit, the company throws out first cash then evida and then earnings. it's all predictable and measurable and consistent. >> can you address the insider selling that some pointed to as a concern especially the stock has been a high flier since august of 2012 insiders have sold 610,000 shares august being the time when the ipo lockup expiration happened including yourself in the past month sold about 50,000 shares. can you walk us through this sale? >> yes, absolutely. we've been working on this company for 18 years now.
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so i remain a very large holder of the stock. i've been in the stock literally for 18 years. so the insiders have engaged in 10 b 51 program plan selling over a long period of time relatively modest positions. it's simply for diverse any occasion represent to the holdings and we still have substantial ownership, all of the insiders do. >> bill thanks for your time. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> certainly a high flier when you look at the performance over the past year or so. this actually has a similar business model to zillow which you are a bull on. >> it's actually a bigger short interest than zillow which is why it's so hard to trade these from the short side. dan is going to be right about zil oh pretty soon but these stocks have a lot of get up and
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go as does angie's list. again, you just can't short these stocks here. >> this company trades at six times sales, similar revenue growth expected. when you are going to get into speculative names look at these bick lis valuation. >> should you be buying u.s. stocks right now or investing abroad? we're tackle that after the break. plus our viewers have tweets on everything from facebook to tesla. we are trading your viewer tweets next.
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>> time to hit our call of the dad. city group saying it's time to look outside the u.s. to invest. i guess, paul hickey the question is are we finding the revenue growth outside the u.s.? >> there is a lot of euphoria on the international markets, the manufacturing pmis. only three of about 30 countries
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that we tracked saw a decline this month. there are still several under 40. short term we see some improvement, i think the international trade is good. about early august we've been recommending that. longer term u.s. is where you want to be. i try not to focus too much on the cyclicly adjusted pe ratio. it seems to be backward adjusted over ten years. >> let's get to your tweets. this one is for dan. how do you feel about your tesla short? >> to be clear define risk short. to me this is not one to pick tops in but to me it's topping out or losing momentum to the upside. the news flow has been one way. i want to play some chips on the table to really make a play for about a 10 to 15 percent move lower on the next piece of bad news. >> put spread in place? >> yes.
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