activision and amd only have two women as of now.t this and more with abby adler been. great to have you with us. activision and amd are lagging. it is this a surprise? abby: it is a little surprised, because they have plenty of notice. there has been a lot of talk about the subject. there is not a lot of supply of candidates. there is probably a lack of motivation. emily: do we expect them to add the directors before the end of the year? we had three weeks left. abby: you know, every company sort of touches down. we will see appointments in the next few weeks because people don't want to be called out. there was a lot of companies that are resisting sort of the sense of having pressure around it. is a pretty big number, emily. over half the companies are not complying. that is an -- a lot of board members. emily: there is a trial underway to determine if requiring women on the board is legal. where is that hea abby: it is probably risky for people who are advocates of this law, because there is a lot of questions, even when governor

easiest to replace i don't see a serious problem ongoing at activision.nk it's fair to say bobby acted too late and he probably didn't do enough early enough but didn't participate and addressed everything as he heard about it and the lateness of the policy is holding the stock back will go away people will forget about it. they will recover. they make a ton of money a favorite stock in 2022. >> really? didn't know that. >> really. >> down almost 30% in the year. >> activision will make four bucks next year. $5 of cash and trading at a 13 or 14 multiple they have earnings growth. i would say 20% a year for 5 years. >> michael, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> coming up, the newest spac on the street fathom making the public debut today how's the bottom line impacted by a big supply chain issue? we'll talk about it with the ceo next a look at shares of didi new reports of restrictionfos r shareholders, again. all the details when "closing bell" comes right back new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you

activision down year to date joining me senior research analyst. doug, good to see you. overall in terms of management and governance is that why the stock is down or is it their fundamentals >> you can't really disentangle the two. it started in july when the california government brought a lawsuit against them for discrimination and harassment from the company initially the stock didn't react that month a few weeks later, it was apparent it would impact their pipeline, the games they planned to ship into 2022 would be delayed further out. and i think that sort of brought appearance of not having a great handle of what was going on inside the company it was a disappointment from annerings perspective. it's kind of been the whole thing as when one big disappointment for investors that's driven the stock down >> what would you like to see in terms of changes on the governance front >> yeah. so as you pointed out in the note today, activision chairman of the board has been on the board for over 30 years. they bought the company together out of bankruptcy. we think a lot of

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