It's Wednesday, August 4th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill. Here's the thing

about August, people. It's August. People take vacations. People are moving apartments.

There are a lot of scheduling conflicts. And that's just context for saying I'm joined

today once again by Jason Moser. Thanks for reading there.

Well, I mean, you got to make an excuse, right? If you can't just like hit him out of the

blue, something to be like, well, wait a minute. Then I just hear from that guy on Monday.

You're bringing them again. Listen, folks. I'm sorry. You know, you get much paid for

here. But yeah, happy to be here as always. Chris, thanks for having me.

I appreciate it. And you know what? I have a conflict next week. So next next week's

going to be the proverbial short week on the show. We've got more earnings. We've got

more of the war on cash, but we're going to start in the arena of health. Second quarter

profits for CVS health were higher than expected. They raised their guidance for the full fiscal

year normally. That is the one, two punch we like to see. But shares of CVS down a little

bit because they are planning to increase wages for employees. And they are planning to invest

in more digital options for customers. And both of those are good things. And I think

things you would want to see if you're a shareholder. But it probably also accounts for why the

stock is down a little bit. Yeah, I'm glad you said that. I think you're right.

On the whole, I mean, this was a very good quarter, respectable quarter. But yeah, I

think there's some probably some near term headwinds that maybe have investors less than

enthused today. I mean, this hasn't been the greatest investment over the past several

years. I mean, it's over the past year. It's done. Okay. But you stretch that out three

and five years. It's just not really been the greatest investment in the world. And

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