1 Stock More Investors Should Know About
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🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
If Walmart wrapped up its fiscal year with strong comps in the U.S., why is the stock falling 6%? What should you do when the company you own shares of is bought by another company? Jim Gillies analyzes those questions and introduces Medpace Holdings, a clinical research business he thinks more investors should know about.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, February 18th, but welcome to Marketfoolery. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Chris Hill joining me today, Mr. Jim Gillies. |
| 0:08.9 | Good to see you, my friend. |
| 0:09.9 | Good to be seen, Chris. |
| 0:12.5 | We have a universal dilemma facing investors that we're going to talk about. |
| 0:16.9 | We've got a company I've never heard of before today, but Jim is very excited to tell |
| 0:22.0 | investors about it, so we'll talk about that. |
| 0:24.5 | And we're going to start with the biggest retailer in America. |
| 0:28.0 | Walmart's fourth quarter was highlighted by same-store sales in the US up more than eight |
| 0:33.6 | and a half percent. |
| 0:35.2 | E-commerce sales were up nearly 70 percent. |
| 0:39.2 | CEO Doug McMillan talked on the call about the investments that Walmart is planning to |
| 0:43.6 | make in 2021, and I am assuming those comments are why shares of Walmart are down 6 percent |
| 0:50.6 | this morning. |
| 0:53.2 | I think it's silly. |
| 0:54.2 | They're down 6 percent this morning. |
| 0:56.4 | You are taking the company, the size and breadth and strength of Walmart, one of the few companies |
| 1:02.4 | left essentially unscathed. |
| 1:06.1 | In fact, customers have been driven to them during the pandemic by the closure of practically |
| 1:10.6 | everyone else, and you're going to take down this behemoth retailer by 6 percent in the |
| 1:15.3 | day. |
| 1:16.3 | If you believe that your portfolio should have what I'll call bedrock positions, on |
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