Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It's Monday, October 16th, and we're kicking off our pitches stock theme week across Industry Focus. So today it's one sector and three stocks.

I'm your host Michael Douglas and I'm joined in the studio for this very special episode by

my colleague and good friend Dylan Lewis. How's it going Michael? It's great happy Monday

Happy Monday you know catching you do that intro I realize that we all have a

slightly different cadence with how we say the intro and I was like I was waiting for it to hit kind of the

tones that mine do and it's just different we you know I listen to your show and I

noticed that but I think I caught even more being in the studio with you.

Well you know it's all in the company name right the

molly fool. It's that kind of deep analysis that people tune in for.

Absolutely that's that's what we're known for here but we will talk stocks.

Absolutely so so first off though a little background on this pitch of stock theme

week. fool.com is around a hundred freelance and contract writers and

editors around the world and I mean legitimately around the world.

And each year we invite them to full headquarters for our annual writers conference.

This year we figured we'd take advantage of the fact that they were here and have three riders

per sector each pitch us a stock.

We'll be hearing about Mastercard, ticker symbol MA from Matt Cochran, Square ticker symbol SQ from Matt Frankel, and Berkshire symbol B-R-K-B, well, there's also a B-R-K-A, but those shares

cost legitimately a quarter of a million dollars a piece, so I'm going to bet that most people are

interested in the B shares from

Dan Kapplinger. After each pitch Dylan and I will share our thoughts for a few minutes before going on

to the next one. Now here's the thing. We don't have enough time in this episode to really dig into the nitty gritty with each

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