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radio show. I'm Chris Cilling joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio

of Jason Moser from Motley Fool Rule Breakers and Supernova Simon Erickson and from Motley

Fool Deep Value Ron Gross. Good to see you as always gentlemen. Hey, we've got the

latest on restaurants, entertainment, retail and more. We will get an Oscar preview from

Nell Minow and as always we're giving inside look at the stocks on our radar. But we begin

with the week in home improvement. Home Depot and Loes both reporting this week. Home Depot's

fourth quarter profit and revenue came in higher than expected. Loes fourth quarter sales

up more than five and a half percent. Ron, let's start with Home Depot. Some pretty impressive

same store sales numbers. Yeah, these numbers look really good. Big ticket items were strong.

Housing continues to be strong, which is a big deal for here. And for once we have

good weather, warm weather to thank for retailer. So these numbers look really, really strong.

Company continues to put up numbers that are slightly better than Loes. Loes is fine

in and of itself. Home Depot just a little bit better. Yes, Simon. Loes by comparison

to Home Depot seems to pale over the last couple of years. But you look at their performance

quarter in and quarter out. This is a solid company. Got to agree with Ron though.

Home Depot getting it done. Loes doing good, but just not quite to the same extent. I think

that that's because of the relationship that Home Depot has with contractors. There's

been a lot of new home starts in the last couple of years because low interest rates.

And that's really worked in Home Depot's favor. That's why we've seen Home Depot with

a 9% comp figure in the US for 5 and a half for Loes. I think most of it's on that contractor's

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