the president and ceo of brinker international and president of chili's grill and bar.arter. kevin, welcome to mad money. >> yeah. >> what a great day. >> i got just blown away. i mean, how do you do those numbers? i mean, honestly, i'm astonished. even as a restaurant owner, i don't know how you did it. tell us. >> well, number one, it's teamwork, right? we've got these amazing restaurant field teams. we've got an amazing restaurant support center at our home office. they're co-designing plans about how to make the restaurants easier to operate. they're co-designing plans on how we're going to create new food innovation and advertising to get new guests in. and it's all coming together and working, you know, progressively every quarter. our results are getting better and better. now they're being fueled by 19% traffic growth. and quite frankly, we think the sky's the limit. we don't think this is the end. we think this is just the beginning of the chili's turnaround. >> well, the analysts always like, well. >> is this a flash in the pan? it has to end whatever. or mayb

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. >> brinker international. >> ringing. >> the closing bell at the new york. >> stock exchange. >> will group doing the honors. >> at the nasdaq. stocks mostly. >> lower in a. >> choppy. >> session as the fed holds rates steady and signals potential concerns. >> on. >> inflation. >> while nvidia. >> pulls back on fresh worries about export controls. >> now attention turns to. one of the most important hours of earnings season. that's the scorecard on wall street. but the action is just getting started. >> welcome to closing. >> bell overtime i'm morgan brennan with john ford. >> yeah. buckle up for a massive afternoon of. quarterly reports. >>

and shares of chili's parent company, brinker international jumping as same store sales rise 27%, driveny for its chili's brand advertising and new value meals at the chain, bringing in 20% increases in traffic. that's according to what they saw in terms of their overall scheme for the quarter. so brinker is up 13, almost 14%. mike. baby back ribs. i got to think about. >> that now. i'm going. >> to have that jingle stuck in my head. i'll send things. >> back even more than usual. probably up 330% on a one year basis. dom. kind of remarkable for an old name. all right. our next guest says the current market dynamics have created significant valuation dislocations in value oriented areas of the market. joining us now is john murray, cio and senior portfolio manager at nfa investment group. john, good to see you. >> good to see you, mike. >> you know, we could have said this many times over the last couple of years about, you know, the relative value in value type stocks. i wonder what you're picking up from the market's message recently though, because it's fascinating. monday s&p down a