Consumer Goods: Why Macy's Is a Great Retail Income Stock
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Retailers have sold off and that’s good news for income investors, particularly those willing to take a close look at department store operator Macy’s.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going shopping for Consumer Goods |
| 0:02.5 | dividends on this C.G. edition of Industry Focus. |
| 0:08.6 | G. Greetings fools. I am Sean O'Reilly here in studio at Fool Headquarters in |
| 0:14.8 | Alexandria, Virginia. It is Tuesday, November 17th and this week is dividend week |
| 0:19.7 | on Industry Focus. Vincent Shen is out today and filling in for him and joining us |
| 0:24.7 | on the phone from the windy city Chicago Illinois is Motley Fool contributor |
| 0:28.8 | Adam Levine Weinberg. Morning Adam and how is it going? |
| 0:31.8 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:33.0 | How are you, Sean? |
| 0:34.0 | Not too shabby. |
| 0:35.0 | I got my coffee, got my water, ready to talk some dividends, it's all good. |
| 0:39.0 | Oh, that sounds great. |
| 0:40.0 | So, Adam, I talked to you a few days ago about today's show and once again thanks for filling in for Vince |
| 0:46.4 | And you you're willing to dive right into the carnage of the retail sector for some reason. I'll never understand |
| 0:53.8 | You picked Macy's for a great consumer sector dividend stock, which I happen to agree with, and |
| 0:57.8 | we'll get into the reasons why and a few. |
| 1:00.4 | Before we get to the nitty gritty of Macy's as an income stock, can you just give, you know, |
| 1:04.4 | listen to some perspective as to what's been going on in the retail sector because last |
| 1:07.7 | week alone was a bloodbath. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, that's right, Sean. Retail stocks really got hit hard last week, and Macy's was definitely one of the big reasons for that. |
| 1:19.0 | Macy's stock peaked in mid- July at $73.61. |
| 1:25.0 | But since then, it's fallen by nearly 50%. |
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