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That's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Ellin joining me in studio this week.

For Million Dollar Portfolio, Matt Argusinger and Jason Moser and for Motley Fool Deep Value,

Ron Gross. Good to see you as always, gentlemen.

Hey, hey, hey.

We have got the latest earnings from Wall Street. The one and only Nell Minnow is our guest.

And as always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin this week once again with the big picture for retail and definitely looking better than last week, guys.

Walmart's third quarter profit came in higher than expected. They had an upbeat forecast for the holiday quarter.

And something we rarely get to say, Matt, shares up more than 7% this week for Walmart.

I know. Well, it's been rare for them. They've had a really tough couple of years here.

I results were better than expected. But I think that's kind of what we're seeing with all these retail companies.

The ones that are actually the stocks are moving up. It's just, it's not as bad as we thought.

And I think that's the case with Walmart. I mean, if you look at the revenue still down year over year by about 1.3%.

Okay, if you strip out for an exchange, revenue is up 2.8%. So Bravo, Walmart.

You're keeping up with inflation. I mean, you know, compare that easy.

No, you're right. It's not easy. But, you know, but profits were better expected. But they're down.

They were down quite a bit because Walmart, as we know, is invested in technology. They're investing in their people.

They're raising salaries, trying to revert. We're so a lot of their stores.

But, you know, a lot of that. I don't know how much of that is paying off. I mean, if you look at, for example, their e-commerce sales, e-commerce sales were up just 10%.

And I compare that with Amazon and much more mature e-commerce platform. And, you know, their revenues more than double that growth rate.

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