It's Tuesday, January 24th, and this is Market Fullry.

I'm Chris Helen joining me in studio today for Motley Fool's stock advisor, Jason Moser,

and for Motley Fool income investor, James Early.

Gentlemen, good to see you.

Good to see you, Chris.

We've got the latest from McDonald's and Starbucks,

but we are going to start with a couple of big consumer companies

reporting earnings.

Shares of Johnson and Johnson flat so far today,

despite the fact that the company's fourth quarter profit fell 89%,

shares of Kimberly Clark down a little bit this morning.

The company missed earnings and cited higher

costs as part of the reason for their results. James, a couple of big dividend stocks.

What do you think?

Chris, the big story here is where is is this missing demand in other words the

consumer product segment of j and jay was the one that got whacked its operating

income was down 19% I'm not talking about special charges for the hip

replacements and things like that but Kimberly Clark same thing it was their personal

care these are diapers tampons things like that these products are traditionally

thought of the safe havens in in in rough times and it's just weird that they're they're not selling well I don't know if people

are not buying them or trading down to generics but that's the story.

I was going to say I mean when you think about those two companies and everything that Johnson and Johnson produces everything

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