Rentokil (OTC:RTOKY) plans to buy rival Terminix Global in a $6.7 billion deal that prompts different reactions from investors. Motley Fool analyst Asit Sharma analyzes that story and more and discusses the impending breakup of GE. 

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This video was recorded on Dec. 14, 2021.

Chris Hill: It’s Tuesday, December 14th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I’m Chris Hill and before I welcome in a familiar voice, I want to share a little bit of news and that is producer Dan Boyd and I are moving. Later this month will be the last episode in this podcast feed because, to borrow from the great LeBron James, we’re taking our talents to The Motley Fool Money feed. Starting in January, we’re going to be turning Motley Fool Money into a daily show. Whether you started listening to this show in the past month, the past year, or you’ve been one of the dozens since we started this show in 2011, I really think you’re going to like what’s coming in January. 

If we’re not already following Motley Fool Money on whatever podcast platform you use, please do that because that is where you’re going to be hearing from me and the other people that you’re used to hearing on this show, starting in January. We want you to weigh in, we want to get your thoughts on the topics that you enjoy hearing about. We have a short four-question survey that we have put in the episode description, you can just click that link, it shouldn’t take more than one minute to fill out. We do want to hear from you, so thank you for doing that. More details to come, but I am really excited for the next phase of Motley Fool podcasting. With that, let me welcome Asit Sharma. Thanks for being here.

Asit Sharma: Thank you for having me as always, Chris.

Chris Hill: We’re going to dip into the Fool Mailbag. We’ve got two very different business types to discuss and we’re going to start with Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND) because shares are up more than seven percent this morning. The maker of plant-based meat substitutes got an analyst upgrade based on the potential for Beyond Meat’s national launch with McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) possibly happening in …….

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