FedEx Falls, Pets Are Paying Off
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🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
FedEx stock falls 13%, the worst day in over a decade. Emily Flippen analyzes why this isn’t a buying opportunity just yet. Pet food retailer Chewy posts its 1st report as a public company. And General Mills gets a boost from (surprise) its pet division.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Mark Foolery, brought to you by NetSuite, the business |
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| 0:11.3 | today at NetSuite.com slash fool. |
| 0:14.0 | It's Wednesday, September 18th. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Market Fuller. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today. |
| 0:21.0 | She's not on Twitter, but she is here in the studio. Emily Flipping, |
| 0:24.0 | thanks for being here. Thanks for having me even though Twitter won't. I think |
| 0:28.1 | Twitter will have you. I get that question on Twitter every time you're on the |
| 0:32.0 | show. Like, where where is I was like |
| 0:33.5 | no she's maybe I won't have Twitter I'll put it that way there we go we've got |
| 0:37.1 | earnings we've got pet earnings packaged food earnings we're gonna start |
| 0:42.1 | with FedEx and technically these are |
| 0:44.3 | earnings. Although fourth quarter profits for FedEx came in lower than expected, |
| 0:49.2 | their revenue was also down, and they cut full year guidance and they didn't really hold back in terms of all |
| 0:56.4 | of the challenges that FedEx is facing as a company and if you look at FedEx as a bellwether business, then there is cause for concern because shares |
| 1:06.8 | of FedEx are down to 13%. |
| 1:08.7 | This is the worst day in over a decade. |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah, and FedEx is one of those businesses that tends to actually respond pretty |
| 1:14.5 | significantly into changes in the macro environment. So, you know, and they had this |
| 1:18.2 | poor report, to put it nicely, there were a lot of things that they pointed to as contributing, one of those being |
| 1:25.9 | the trade war, right, in a softening macro environment. Another one being the recently |
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