Buffett’s $122 Billion, Tyson’s All-Time High, and Altria Group 2029
MarketFoolery
The Motley Fool
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Berkshire-Hathaway’s 2nd-quarter profits drop 11%, but it’s the cash hoard that interests us. Shares of Tyson Foods hit an all-time high after strong 3rd-quarter profits. And what will Altria Group look like in ten years? MFAM Funds portfolio manager Bill Barker analyzes these stories and more. (Tangents include the Liberty Bell, overrated landmarks, the rise of the New York Yankees, and the fall of the Boston Red Sox.)
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, August 5th. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from M-Fam Funds, Bill Barker. |
| 0:08.0 | Happy Monday. |
| 0:10.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:11.0 | Not in the market so much. |
| 0:12.0 | There's a lot of stocks going down. Thank you're like always |
| 0:13.0 | a lot of stocks going down in the market today. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah, not unless you're short in which case it's a very happy Monday. |
| 0:19.0 | Right. |
| 0:20.0 | So think about the bears. |
| 0:22.0 | You're like always assuming everybody's a bowl. That's true. |
| 0:25.8 | That's true. Shout out to the bears. Shout out to the bears. |
| 0:28.0 | Taking a victory lap today. We're having a good day. |
| 0:31.8 | Praising China. |
| 0:33.0 | We're going to dip into the full mail bag. |
| 0:34.7 | We're going to, we've got one stock hitting an all-time high. |
| 0:38.1 | We'll get to that in a second. |
| 0:39.1 | Let's start with Berkshire Hathaway because as they are want to do, Berkshire Hathaway puts out their quarterly earnings |
| 0:44.9 | report very quietly after the market closes on Friday. |
| 0:49.9 | Second quarter profit for Berkshire Hathaway was down 11% compared to a year ago. |
| 0:54.7 | We'll get to their cash in a second. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Motley Fool, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Motley Fool and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.