Buffett's Latest Buys (and Sells)
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🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What stocks have the folks at Berkshire Hathaway been buying and selling? Glad you asked. |
| 0:10.4 | Motley Fool Money starts now. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Chris Hill joining me today. It's our man in Canada, Motley Fool's Senior Analyst, |
| 0:26.0 | Jim Gilles. Good to see you, my friend. |
| 0:27.8 | Good to be seen, Chris. |
| 0:29.6 | We're going to start with Home Depot and simply put, first quarter results were not great. |
| 0:35.3 | Home Depot's revenue was lower than expected. Their same store sales were down 4.5% |
| 0:41.2 | and the company says it expects sales to fall somewhere between 2 and 5% for the year |
| 0:49.6 | and that is lower than previous guidance. Shares of Home Depot are only down 1%, which, |
| 0:56.0 | as a shareholder, I have to say, that has me both pleasantly surprised and a little bit confused. |
| 1:01.8 | Why isn't this worse? I'm not complaining, I'm just confused. |
| 1:06.6 | Why isn't my stock down more? Come on, I think because it was largely expected. |
| 1:11.8 | I don't think it's news that after a year of inflationary pressure, which followed |
| 1:19.6 | two years of being locked in your home when the only thing you could do is basically buy |
| 1:24.2 | stuff for your home. I'm not surprised that the number of grills and outdoor furniture |
| 1:30.4 | sets that they're selling has gone down. I'm not surprised that home improvement projects |
| 1:37.6 | are perhaps smaller than on average than they were a year or two ago. People are choosing |
| 1:43.8 | to spend their money to go out after being locked in their homes for almost two years, |
| 1:47.4 | or essentially two years. I think it was largely expected, Chris. I also think the headline |
| 1:52.7 | I saw that made me look at it and go, really? Who cares? It's one of those things where |
| 2:02.3 | it's a headline that doesn't make a lot of sense, is that the headline was the last |
| 2:08.6 | miss of this magnitude was in November of 2002. It's like, when your favorite sports teams, |
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