Cramer's Morning Take: Foot Locker 8/23/23
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🗓️ 23 August 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kramer, and this is my morning take on the market from today's CNBC Investing Club morning meeting. |
| 0:07.0 | It has been a confusing time, and I say that because I like to right up front own things. |
| 0:15.0 | A very small position, foot locker, which you did urge you not to buy, but we did own some, is a disaster. That conference call is going on right now, but against that, we have a lot of good stocks, including the Magnificent Seven, and I do, other than Tesla. And look, I want to always be up front with you. I bought that, that was mine. Mary Dillon came on, bought a lot of stock, came on, told |
| 0:39.2 | us this could be the next Ulta. I, there had been no reason for me to doubt her. I made |
| 0:43.4 | a mistake. It's always on me, not that person, but I have to say that it was a very difficult |
| 0:50.3 | quarter and a lot of it was because the demographic has changed, the economy has |
| 0:56.3 | changed, but also if you look, Nike is now down 10 straight days. There's a move away from |
| 1:01.3 | footwear on semi did, not on semi, did not have a good quarter either. Yeah, it's tough because |
| 1:07.5 | she's trying to reposition the company, get out of, become more off mall, you know, get out of Champs. |
| 1:13.7 | Choms really killed it. |
| 1:15.2 | But Champs was horrible. |
| 1:16.5 | So repositioning the company right now in a moment of weakness, especially on the consumer side. |
| 1:21.6 | The longest is as bad as July. |
| 1:24.5 | They are trying to reposition basically on the fly, which is always very hard. They do have |
| 1:30.0 | $600 million in credit. They will have to tap that credit line. They have way too much inventory. |
| 1:36.2 | It's a textbook case of a turnaround that isn't happening. Yeah. Well, look, we've been saying |
| 1:42.0 | not to buy. We haven't added to our position since the last quarter. Just a harsh reminder why it's important, excuse me, it's important not to put good money after bad. |
| 1:51.4 | Boush Health is a reminder of that, but there'll be, I'm doing it book, and there'll be a chapter on mistakes. |
| 1:58.2 | And Boush was a belief in Joe Papa and Footlock was a belief |
| 2:02.4 | from Mary Dillon. And I'm obviously trying to get away from the idea that you can bank |
| 2:06.3 | on certain people, even though that had been something I had done in my career and it typically |
| 2:10.5 | had worked. So that's a little of learning lesson here is that don't necessarily be with someone |
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