WBD Up For Sale, GM Leads Earnings Winners, Starboard Value CEO Jeff Smith 10/21/25

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber discussed breaking news from David: Warner Bros. Discovery has initiated a process to sell the company — and that Netflix and Comcast are among the interested parties. General Motors shares surged on a Q3 beat and raised full-year guidance. Earnings winners include Coca-Cola, 3M and GE Aerospace.  David interviewed Starboard Value CEO Jeff Smith at the 13D Monitor Active-Passive Investor Summit. The activist investor discussed companies including Tylenol maker Kenvue, of which Smith is a board member. Also in focus: Apple $4 trillion watch, Disney+ cancellations, what Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon told CNBC about the credit cycle.Disclosure: Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal, which owns CNBC.Versant would become the new parent company of CNBC upon Comcast’s planned spinoff of Versant.Squawk on the Street Disclaimer Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.