| Account | Shares | Price | Value | % of acct | Cost/sh | Gain $ | Gain % | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401K | 298 | $3.86 | $1,150 | 0.05% | $3.31 | $165 | +16.7% | — |
In short: The French grocer Couche-Tard earlier tried and abandoned buying; cited as the pattern of large M&A attempts rebuffed by host countries. Referenced.
1:01:277-Eleven and sort of that playbook because, you probably remember this, remember when they were trying to buy Carrefour the French grocery,
1:01:35didn't like it and then they said okay we're not going to do that, we'll stick to our core business. I think that the thing that's changed in the last quarter or in the
In short: Reference — the French "hypermarket" Couche-Tard took a shot at (and France invoked "food sovereignty" to block). That episode is where Smead got involved in Couche-Tard, because it triggered open-market insider buying and buybacks.
58:29to 65 we're just going to collapse the voting into the non-voting um they didn't do that they did the right thing they collapsed voting and non- voting together and we just wake up as sympatico side by-side Partners I say all that because when we got involved with cushard was when they took a shot at car for the the obviously the French retailer you know what they call hyper hyper Supermarket uh business um that's when we stepped in now why I think a lot of Canadian investors think about cushard as this blue chip high quality
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