shares of darden doubled in the past year.o how strong -- is this going to be a higher plateau of restaurant spending for a while or not. >> the crew on "halftime" talked about darden earlier today 12:30. courtney gibson talked about how there was a two hour wait at the yard house restaurant in atlanta, the vong brand power of darden and some of those companies. i think, yeah, people are ready to get back out. we want to spend on jeans or whatever it is and live our best lives outside after being kooped up the last year. >> what, dom >> i would say this. i want to wait a few more weeks or months before i make a call on this. the reason why i say this, for many places around the country the long lines are because you are still operating at 25 to 50% capacity over the next weeks you will start to see major jurisdictions loosen those restrictions. in my home state of connecticut may 19th we are back to normal, no restrictions. if you start to see pent up demand still playing out with full capacity that's going to be a big key. wh

darden, which owns olive garden and other restaurants, told employees it would offer hourly employees two hours of pay for each dose they receive while emphasizing doses are not mandatory. target offering a $5 coupon to all customers and employees who receive the vaccination at a target-cvs location. other companies are getting creative with their physical space. and salesforce tower has a policy where up to 100 fully-vaccinated employees can volunteer to work on designated floors. >> i think it's going to be case by case. general solutions are to be, again, fair, evenhanded. >> our thanks to deirdre. >>> coming up, shining up the '60s. >> we're checking out that twa hotel that promises to take us back to a classier time in air travel. you're watching "world news now." >>> it was ♪ oh, big old jet airliner ♪ ♪ don't carry me too far away ♪ ♪ oh, big old jet airliner ♪ because it's here that i've got to stay ♪ >>> after a year of pandemic shutdowns, we've all been dreaming of getting on a big old jet airliner to carry us far, far away. >> time to travel. that jetliner may just end up t

darden restaurants, they want to go back, live the rest of their lives, darden is part of that dynamicit was a name i let go. they report next month. i will not be surprised if they have a strong quarter or take out some of highest estimates even mgm, got an upgrade of jpmorgan. i traded poorly. i got stomped out. they're right. las vegas is at an inflection point right now. some names are expensive but they will grow into valuation quickly. charles: caesar's says every weekend was booked as far as the i can see. not only do we want to party, but party central to do it right. eddie, there is a lot of talk about this bill t was passed in the senate. i'm not sure it is getting enough press. called endless frontiers. government will spend $100 billion to counter china's moves into technology. there has to be stock winners there. any names you think will benefit. >> i do. it will be a race for five d. skyworks, nvidia, chipmaker qualcomm. a long-term play for this space. if this bill goes through, the final version we should see sometime next month, that chip space should be very, very pro

united airlines, royal caribbean, marriott and darden indicative of that reopening trade. watch those retail names and the reopening trade. back to you. >> thank you very much rotation from e-commerce plays have been well under way for months now is it a little premature to sell the pandemic names entirely. walmart has continued to thrive even as consumers return to physical stores. my next guest says there's way to play this bridge. nancy, it's great the see you. >> it's fabulous the see you in studio >> it's good to be here after a couple of false starts let's talk about your -- i think amazon is one of your favorite names right now. this whole theme is one of your favorites. explain a bit where you see the opportunity. >> you've heard this add nauseam but it's not yjust the transfer payments but it's the plans sheet. that's been happening over the last 10, 15 years. asset prices are up. housing as well. we think the spending boom continues and we may see a slight shift from goods to services but goods are not going away amazon is a stock that sort of straddles e-commerc

darden which owns olive garden and other restaurants, told employees it would offer hourly employeesey receive, while ephasizing doses are not mandatory. target offering a $5 coupon to all customers and employees who receive their vaccination at a cvs target location. others getting creative with their physical space. salesforce tower in san francisco has a center where up to 100 fully vaccinated employees can work on designated floors. >> i think it will be case by case. general solutions though are to be, again, fair, even handed. >> reporter: from a corporate culture perspective, experts say flexibility is key. >> when we return, there will be a lot of changes made in the office environment. >> reporter: that flexibility is key, especially when it comes to retaining top talents. eva? >> deirdre bolton, thank you for that. so many people waiting to see how it all shakes out. >>> coming up on "good morning america," the pain to find gas to start the work week, following the colonial pipeline disruption. we'll have more coming up. colonial pipeline disruption. we'll have more coming

i don't -- you know, whether it is darden, yes, talking my own book but i think that's what you wantke shack. josh has been talking about it forever and a day. chipotle is just not my thing >> okay. kari, no chipotle for you either >> no. it is just a really high stock -- you know, it must be also in electric vehicles because it seems to trade that way. i just can't justify the price so, you know, starbucks is the name we have owned in the past we don't own any of the restaurant stocks now and, you know, i think they have been great stocks chipotle has been phenomenal since they ran into the problem with, you know, bacteria in the lettuce or whatever. you know, good for the shareholders, but there's no way that we could buy it and be age to justify the valuation here. >> well, you have justified twilio >> hey, judge, this analyst, this analyst has been -- >> i'm coming back to you on that >> -- bearish on chipotle >> yeah >> i would just say this analyst has been in neutral for almost two years, and he was at a sell rating the entire two years before that. this stock has been compoun

getting some help there from earnings and an analyst call shares of darden coming up next. 3,000 sharesnd the target price is $164 it was $137. they liked among other things the expected continued growth, post-pandemic, of olive garden sales. so those shares getting some help as well we will end on a down one here peloton. down again pre-market. roughly 350,000 shares of pre-market volume. 3% losses here traders and investors still trying to digest, work through the implications of the fitness equipment maker's recall of the treadmill products and analysts at bank of america have downgraded it to neutral and cut the target price to $100 it was $150 before due in part to changing assumptions on the valuation given the recall of those tread mill products, joe so we got some moves there in the pre-market i'll send things back to you. >> we have someone directly affected, i think, dom >> i'm trying to figure, out, joe -- >> this is actually what investors had to figure out. i don't know whether i'm going to give it back or not or whether this is just now made us even more aware of what we n

we're having right now, if you had to choose one stock to buy right now, what is it >> i would say darden like the company operated model. inflation will be an issue down the road, but right now you have the reopen benefit on the top line that's going to be leveraging the bottom line and you see it outside there >> all right finally on pricing power, we talked about soybean costs and whether pork gets substituted for chicken on the margin. but do they have pricing power at this point to change the number on the menu >> right now it feels like a consumer is strong enough to handle it, and the consumer is driving some pretty nice check growth in other words, they're buying that bottle of wine, and pricing power seems to be there across the board. we're hearing from food companies and restaurant companies. they're taking price, and they tend to go at least dollar neutral on this inflation. you know, typically the food markup is throw times what the food cost is at a restaurant company. and with the franchise business, you're dealing with only something like 2 % of the system in the case of m

olive garden owner darden being called outperform by callan, worth $160 million.know how things will work out when we're back to normal. investors don't think much, the stock is down a fraction. susan: garlic bread, always the garlic bread. stuart: i do like the garlic bread by the way. jeff bezos, he sold a lot of amazon shares. susan: a lot. stuart: how much did he sell and why did he sell it? susan: a lot for me and you and the average person but not for jeff bezos but he sold over $2 billion worth next two days. most of that taking place on monday. the filing said this was prescheduled. we knew this was happening. bezos is accelerating amazon stocks sales, unloaded 4 billion last february. another 3 billion in november. he previously sales he sells about a billion dollar a year in amazon stock in order to fund his space venture blue origin, they're starting to sell tickets for space tourism. bezos is getting more charitable. giving away more of his money. selling more stock. he is still worth $190 billion, i checked according to bloomberg wealth. still richest

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