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nike is always victorious, took out reebok umbro, adidas, converse, they run the table every time. >> look at some of the success they've already had. >> yes, sure. certainly the success they've had with their endorsements has been just enormous. the masters record-breaking masters performance by jordan spieth super bowl mvp and likely nba mvp in curry. the under armour brand is on fire. if you look at nike, they generate $37 billion at sales. under armour is roughly 4. if they can get 15 to 20 billion, there's well north of a billion dollars plus in annual free cash flow. if you apply nike's potential free cash flow the market cap could more than double from here. >> wow. >> are we making a fair comparison here gentlemen, of nike versus under armour? is nike john necessarily the bogey that under armour is going after, do you think? >> the markets they're growing in are growing rapidly right now. the activewear market domestically and globally is growing rapidly. both companies are taking advantage of the pie. two incredible companies with be two marketing giants and ultimately we thi

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i got to tell everyone how he wore the same adidas flip-flops for 12 years until there were no soul soles on him until his feet were touching the ground. as much as i wanted to buy him a new pair, he wanted those slippers to be his and he wore them with pride. i got to sit in frongt of a congregation of people and tell them how my brother protected me and my sister how he was such a great guy. i would wake up in the morning sometimes and my car would be messy. soon after he would come home and the car would be cleaned inside and out. he taught my daughter how to ride a bike. it doesn't feel like odin's not here. it feels like a bad dream and i'm stuck between living and reality and this dream world where he's not here and i haven't had the chance to speak with him. odin calls me every day. if he didn't call me he texted me. he would call me at work and ask me what i'm doing. odin, i'm on the work. what do you think i'm doing? i miss that. when my nephew was born last year, march the first thing i did was pick up my phone to call my brother and tell him he had a nephew. and even now after

i think the loser is somebody like adidas who occasionally has a good headline. really there is a duopoly and everybody sells standing still. >> that's the point. you shouldn't expect it to move. >> i actually have a confession to make on lulu. i wasn't going to do this. >> are you sure? >> listen, i'm going to go ahead and say it. i actually own my first piece of lulu lemon clothing, my wife ordered for me, i didn't go to the store. they just get me. like there's no label inside of it. it's like versatile, you can leave the gym and go do something else. >> now that you've opened the door. are we talking pants -- >> undergarments. >> it's a sweatshirt, but the material is such you don't need a shirt under it, and it almost caresses your skin. i never thought that i would be wearing liu liu lemen, i might go back and buy something pels. >> we didn't either. >> this is not women's clothes, it is men's clothing. >> scott, can i say real quick, in term was underarmor, you have to be careful, i'm a dir rivets guy, i talk about this all the time. you talk about the per

i got to tell everyone how he wore the same adidas flip-flops for 12 years until there were no soles on them and his feet were touching the ground. as much as i asked him to buy a new pair, he wanted those slippers to be his and he wore them with pride. i got to sit in front of a congregation of people and talk about how my brother protected me and my sister. how he was such a great guy. how he would wake up in the morning sometimes and as soon as i get ready to get mad at him, he'll come home with my car and it's clean on inside and out. i had to tell people how great of an uncle he was. how he taught my daughter to ride her bike. it doesn't feel like odin is not here. it feels like just a bad dream and i'm stuck between living and reality and this dream world where he's just not here and i haven't had a chance to speak to him. odin called me every day. if he didn't call me, he text me. he would call me at work and ask me what i'm doing and first thing i would say is i'm at work. what do you think i'm doing? i miss that. when my nephew was born in march, first thing i did was picked

last year taylor made adidas was down 30%. golf is too expensive for the average folk.uild the sport back up to where it was in tiger's hay day. >> one other thing, does the success in golf transfer over to other sports? meaning you see the logo in the golf arena and do you then go buy under armour basketball shoes? sneakers. >> i don't see that so much for under armour's situation. now, in nike's case because of just the quality, the strength of the brand and the other thing, too andrew is in economics we talk about first mover advantages. nike has that over under armour and such diversity in their brand. but under armour is coming. i saw kevin playing sp. >> patrick brian, thank you, both, for joining us today. >> thank you. >> kevin plank sold grateful dead t-shirts in the parking lot. >>> coming up dow component verizon reporting a short time ago. we go through the numbers and find out if it's new channel plan can connect with customers. >>> later, is it time to get out of u.s. stocks and into emerging markets? veteran investor mark mobias thinks so. investment grou

under armour reports results creeping up on adidas. at 7:30, it is verizon's turn. tom: lots going on around the world. a better risk on field to the market. 2100 on s&p 500. euro-dollar weaker. we will get to greece with francine lacqua in a bit. $56 a barrel, a bid on oil. on to the next green. the vix, near that 12 level of more complacency. two year yields churn. and then there is greece. the three-year yield in greece is 28.8%. that defies description. we will try to describe it in the 6:00 hour. let's go over to the bloomberg terminal and look at the u.s. economy and what matters. brendan, help me out, existing homes -- going back 20 years. i do not know where normal is. boom, boom down we go, a going this is -- ugly we are sort of back to here. but what is normal and housing? brendan: as we get used economic certainties. one is we measure the strength of the economy by the strength of the housing economy. that linkage may not still be there. it is hard to tell whether we can assume housing is a proxy for the economy. tom: you are in the search right now. do w

everybody always looks at it in competition with the nikes, adidas.ll talk to a citigroup analyst later in the show who says it is a buy. i'm reading reports that say yes, maybe a little bit disappointing here when it comes to the numbers. you are seeing that in the stock reaction. this is a growth company and continues to post top line growth. >> kimberly-clark is strong at the open again. a company in kimberly-clark's zones having issue with the strong dollar. it managed to beat wall street expectations despite i read the fact content is growing for adult incontinence. saying this is going to be a key market and they are focusing on this in terms of the challenge and growth potential. >> what's happened this is the fastest growing market in consumer products adult incontinence. p&g entered this market this year. that has given a little competition to kimberly-clark which was the leader. we've seen a lot of aggressive marketing from procter and gamble. these results managed to beat expectations despite the stronger dollar. investors are rewarding com

. >> surpassing adidas in europe. >> underarmour in the chicago store, people -- nike p's wheelhouse.ecause of the jordan. i have to tell you i think underarmour is on fire. remember, nike is going performance athletic. that's a great call. they can have that. underarmour is going fitness and that's i think in the end a bigger market. map my fitness is hunl. that's going to dovetail with the apple watch and we will not be thinking about that it just tells time. >> what's on "mad" tonight? >> private company we're going to talk to. we've got -- i tell you. i have something on the activists that -- and not activist, the drug side. that david, you're going to love. interesting guy. we are -- we are talking about the kinds of activism. they're not all created equally. >> you and i have talked about that in the past. >> i look forward to seeing what you've got to say. >> yeah. >> see you tonight, jim. 6:00 p.m. eastern time. >> 6:00 p.m. it's on a brighton 6:00 p.m. and apple watch. that's one thing they left out. it tells time. >> simon hobbs here with what's coming up at 10:00. >> feel a