CG: A Different Way to Play Retail
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The retail-pocalypse has scared a lot of investors out of investing in any of the major names you see in malls, but what if we said there was a way to play retail that didn't bank as much on the success of stores like Macy's? Today we talk about the shopping mall REITs, how their business models are changing a bit, and which ones might be worth putting on your watch list.
Stocks: SPG, MAC, TCO, BPR
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | Today is Tuesday, September 10th, and we're talking about a unique take on shopping malls and the retail apocalypse. I'm your host Don Lewis and I'm joined by |
| 0:14.7 | Motley Fool contributor Louise Sanchez via Skype. Louise, how's it going man? |
| 0:18.6 | Hey Dylan, I'm doing good. I'm enjoying the weather up here in New York. It started to cool down. |
| 0:25.0 | And I think people who heard my podcast last week on Zillow probably heard that I'm still in this process of moving. |
| 0:32.0 | So that's been occupying a lot of my free time |
| 0:34.7 | unfortunately it takes up way too much time for everybody there's no easy way to do it |
| 0:40.6 | yeah yeah especially in New York City. It's just a real nightmare sometimes, but you know, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, so we're getting there. |
| 0:50.0 | And what have you been up to vis-à-vis stocks? I know you're someone who is always watching the market |
| 0:56.2 | writing for us regularly. You know, what's been on your mind lately? |
| 0:59.4 | I'm very eagerly watching what's going on in stocks right now. |
| 1:04.0 | There's a really interesting rotation this week, actually, |
| 1:08.0 | where growth and value names are selling off, |
| 1:11.0 | while actually growth and momentum names are selling off while actually growth and momentum names are selling off |
| 1:14.8 | while value stocks are gaining and it's actually relevant to what we're going to |
| 1:19.1 | talk about today because you know mall reeds malls and Reets in the whole retail sector are mostly value stocks. |
| 1:28.4 | And we've actually seen a nice pop this week in the malls and the shopping centers. So I'm excited to talk about this. |
| 1:35.0 | Hopefully our discussion today can shine a light on a really interesting area of the market that could |
| 1:40.9 | be on the cusp of making a comeback. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, I was excited when you pitch me this idea. |
| 1:45.5 | You know, we have spent a lot of time on the show talking about shopping malls |
| 1:50.9 | and the retail apocalypse. Traditionally, that's been something that we've talked about with |
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