CG: Serving the Underserved: Looking at Underrated Consumer Goods Companies
Industry Focus
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🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We’ve taken a look at some of the most prolific and popular consumer goods stock since the outbreak of COVID-19, but what about some underserved winners? Join Host Emily Flippen and Motley Fool Contributor Dan Kline to “serve the underserved” and take a deeper look at some of the most underrated consumer goods companies on the market today.
Stocks: Ross (ROST), Boston Beer (SAM), Scotts MiracleGro (SMG), Mattel (MAT)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyphill. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today |
| 0:16.0 | we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. |
| 0:19.1 | Wild-C-Wercur! Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome to Industry Focus. It's Tuesday August 25th and I'm your host Emily Flippin. |
| 0:32.9 | Today I'm joined by Motley Full Contributor Dan Klein |
| 0:35.9 | to discuss some successful yet, |
| 0:38.2 | what I consider to be relatively under the radar |
| 0:41.1 | consumer goods winners. Dan, thanks for joining as always. |
| 0:44.6 | Oh, thanks for having me. The goal here was to find some companies we just don't pay any attention to |
| 0:48.8 | and it's not always fair. Like we spend a lot of time talking about J.C. Penny and it probably doesn't deserve it compared to these next four we're going to talk about here. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, definitely. I'm really excited to talk about these companies and they're companies that I know we've mentioned a lot in passing on these consumer goods episodes of industry focus. |
| 1:07.0 | They're companies that play off of the industries that we discuss. |
| 1:11.0 | Well, at the same time, we really haven't taken the time to delve deeper into them as individuals. So the companies that we're going to be talking about today to give all of our listeners a brief preview is going to be Ross Boston Beer, |
| 1:24.9 | Scott's Miracle Grow, and Mattel. |
| 1:28.2 | And I know I personally want to start with the one that I'm the most excited |
| 1:32.2 | about. We talk about its brother company |
| 1:34.7 | constantly TJ Max, TJX I should say and that's Ross. Yeah Ross is a |
| 1:40.5 | TJ Max style store, a Marshall style store. You go in, you're hunting for discounts, |
| 1:46.0 | it has that sort of fun bargain hunting. Pre- Pandemic, it felt like they were springing up everywhere. |
| 1:51.5 | There's two within five miles of me when I'm at the other house in |
| 1:55.5 | Davenport. There's at least a couple in the West Palm Beach area. It is a massive store, but it's |
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