Financials: A Trio of Big Financial Earnings
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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In this installment of Industry Focus: Financials, we sit down for a chat with Fool analyst T.J. Piggott. Then, host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP discuss the latest earnings from Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B), Square (NYSE: SQ), and Markel (NYSE: MKL). And, as always, the pair shares two stocks on the top of their watch list right now.
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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. |
| 0:06.4 | It's Monday, May 13th, I'm your host, Jason Moser, and on today's financial show, we're talking the latest |
| 0:11.9 | quarters and prospects for Berkshire Hathaway, |
| 0:15.4 | Markel. A little company you people are probably familiar with Square. As always |
| 0:21.0 | we'll have one to watch but we begin this week with another installment of Between Two Fools. |
| 0:27.0 | As I mentioned last week we recently brought four new analysts on to our investing team here at the Motley Fool and we wanted to take |
| 0:33.8 | the opportunity here on industry focus in between two fools to introduce you |
| 0:37.3 | to these analysts. Last week we had Maria Gallagher. This week I had the |
| 0:41.3 | opportunity to sit down with T.J. P Pigot. I hope you enjoy our conversation. |
| 0:45.0 | Okay, T.J. First things first. For our listeners, tell us who you are and how you got here to the Fool. |
| 0:54.0 | Hi Fools, my name is T.J. Piggett and I've been with the Motley Fool for the past four years. |
| 1:00.0 | Prior to joining the Investing team, I was managing the trading desk for |
| 1:04.6 | multi full wealth management. |
| 1:06.1 | Yeah, now, that was a little bit different than what you're doing now. |
| 1:10.5 | I mean, your job description down there managing that trade desk I think was a bit more |
| 1:15.9 | process oriented versus digging into companies right? I mean you weren't doing a lot of research |
| 1:20.5 | down there or not as much as you're doing now. Correct. So mostly what I did is... of to invest, my team and I would execute those transactions for them. |
| 1:34.0 | That's kind of pressure-packed. |
| 1:35.0 | I mean, if you fat-finger or something, you're putting someone's financial lives in jeopardy, |
| 1:39.8 | right? |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah, you know. |
| 1:41.8 | Well, you know, the Motley Fool would make the client right, so I'd be putting our company in jeopardy. So yeah, that's a, |
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