3 Stocks to Hold Forever
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🗓️ 13 May 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
American Express returns some money to shareholders. Zillow delivers Q1 results. And Vertex Pharmaceuticals gets a sign of encouragement from the FDA. Plus we share 3 stocks we’d be willing to hold forever.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 13th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm |
| 0:04.8 | Cressil joining me in studio today for a million dollar portfolio Simon |
| 0:07.7 | Ericsson and Jason Moser. Happy Wednesday, Jen. Happy Wednesday, indeed. |
| 0:12.1 | Hey Chris. |
| 0:13.0 | We're going to talk real estate. |
| 0:15.4 | We're going to talk biotech. |
| 0:17.0 | We're going to dip it in the mail bag, but let's start with a little company |
| 0:21.8 | called American Express. |
| 0:23.0 | Shares up a little bit today. |
| 0:25.0 | They're raising their quarterly dividend, they're buying |
| 0:28.0 | back 150 million shares of stock. |
| 0:32.0 | This seems fine to me because well it's the first bit of |
| 0:38.7 | non-negative news American expression that has had the while I mean it, it's funny because just from a consumer standpoint, |
| 0:45.8 | this is a company that their brand, to me anyway, has been intact for a very long time. |
| 0:52.4 | It has been in very good shape for a long time. |
| 0:54.7 | From a brand standpoint, the whole membership has its privileges and all that sort of thing. |
| 1:00.2 | You start to dig into the business and you look at the stock the company's been struggling a little bit lately and of course the biggest |
| 1:07.0 | highest profile struggle JMO is the ending of the exclusive partnership with Costco and how that business moved over to |
| 1:17.6 | Visa and like I said if nothing else this is at least a somewhat positive bit of news for Amex and its |
| 1:25.7 | shareholders. |
| 1:26.7 | It's good because it's not bad right? |
| 1:28.7 | No I think you key in on a lot of good points there I I mean, it's done a wonderful job over the course of time |
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