meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

Costco Cracks Down

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Netflix isn’t the only company solving a sharing problem. (00:21) Bill Barker and Ricky Mulvey discuss: - Delta’s investor day and rosy profit guidance. - General Mills hitting a pricing power limit. - How Costco is solving its free rider problem. - AutoZone’s CEO, Bill Rhodes, stepping down and the retailer’s “unappreciated” success story. Plus, (14:31) Jason Moser and Matt Frankel check in on regional banks, and Apple’s consumer finance play. Companies/ETF mentioned: DAL, GIS, COST, AZO, ORLY, AAPL, GS, KRE Host: Ricky Mulvey Guests: Bill Barker, Jason Moser, Matt Frankel Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Pricing power at the grocery store may finally be hitting a wall.

0:09.3

You're listening to Motley Full Money.

0:11.8

Joining us now is Bill Barker.

0:22.8

Bill, good to see you.

0:24.6

Good to be here.

0:25.6

Thanks for having me.

0:26.6

Let's start with Delta's investor day.

0:29.2

Delta Airlines held that on Tuesday, where it bumped earnings by H. Smidge and free cash

0:34.2

flow generation guidance by a billion dollars.

0:37.1

From two to three billion, Bill, a lot of that margin revenue comes from the Delta Sky

0:41.7

Miles card.

0:43.0

When you look at these numbers, is this a travel rebound story, a consumer debt story,

0:48.2

or maybe a little bit of both?

0:50.2

I suppose a little bit of both, although I think investors in Delta are going to want

0:54.9

to focus on the travel rebound part of the story, which is pretty positive.

1:01.0

I think that the industry association is now predicting that 2023 is going to come close,

1:09.7

not quite match 2019's levels of travelers and revenue.

1:17.5

So we're not back to pre-pandemic levels.

1:19.8

There's good reason for that with business travel still being, I would say, highly curtailed

1:25.1

fighting against the pent-up vacation and individual travel stories.

1:32.8

So it's certainly much better levels than last year, and Delta's investor day put a spotlight

1:40.0

on that, and the work isn't finished, but it's a lot closer to being back to where it

...

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.