Industry Focus - Consumer Goods: 12.16.2014
Industry Focus
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🗓️ 16 December 2014
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Who would Santa pick to be in your kids' STOCK-ing?! Consumer goods analysts Sean O'Reilly and Nathan Hamilton speculate!
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| 0:00.0 | Which toy stocks with Santa Claus by? We'll find out on this edition from Industry Focus. Welcome to the show Fools. I'm Nathan Hamilton joined by our consumer goods |
| 0:15.8 | analyst Sean O'Reilly. How's it going? How's it? How's it? How's it? How's it everybody? |
| 0:19.4 | So today we're going to be talking a little bit about, I guess taking a step back to our younger years talking about top toys. |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah, we're going to answer the age-old question, what stock is in Santa Claus IRA? |
| 0:31.5 | Yep. If he ever retires. |
| 0:33.4 | Maybe he has a 401k. |
| 0:34.6 | Maybe he has a 401k, that actually might just make some withdrawals every year. |
| 0:38.2 | Ms. Claus might be pushing him towards. |
| 0:39.7 | Right, yeah, for their vacations. |
| 0:41.7 | Yeah, we'll take a look at some toys and so forth. |
| 0:44.2 | Obviously, you know, first up is Hasbro. |
| 0:47.8 | Many people know of it, of course, but you've got a lot of different franchises, |
| 0:51.3 | NERF, My Little Pony. |
| 0:53.2 | Some believe they're focused more on, I guess, girls. |
| 0:56.8 | But maybe that's not the truth going forward? |
| 0:59.4 | Yeah, so what I wound up doing was I looked at all the top toys and of course Google helped |
| 1:04.6 | me out a little bit but all the top toys are 2014 and the big brands that came out of |
| 1:09.3 | Hasbro which is the first company that we were talking about were Nerf guns and so does everybody else. |
| 1:17.2 | My little pony, it's been about, I don't know, 20 years, but my little sister was into that. It's surprising me that the brand is still going strong. |
| 1:25.0 | The company actually lists that as one of its key brands, |
| 1:28.0 | so that's a big deal. |
| 1:30.0 | The company Hasbro has revenues of over $4 billion a year. |
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