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MarketFoolery: 02.09.2012

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🗓️ 9 February 2012

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Whole Foods and Visa report big earnings. Groupon reports a loss.

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It's Thursday, February 9th, and this is Market Flory.

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I'm Chris Helen joining me in studio today for Motleyville Stock Advisor, Jason Moser,

0:09.0

and from Motleyville Inside Value, Uncle Joe Maker.

0:11.0

Gentlemen, good to see you. Howdy. We've got a trio of earnings to talk about, but I wanted to give a quick update.

0:18.0

Last week we dedicated an entire market foolery to the stock act which was the bill that was moving through the

0:25.6

United States Senate to stop well stock stands for stop trading on

0:30.3

congressional knowledge it passed overwhelmingly in the Senate.

0:33.4

Earlier today, it passed overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives 417 to 2.

0:39.4

John Campbell, a congressman from California and Rob Woodall a congressman from Georgia the two

0:45.7

dissenting both I'm not sure I didn't watch I wasn't

0:49.7

I wasn't glued to C-SPAN I don't know their rationale for voting for something that

0:54.8

They're for insider trading that's we we can until we hear otherwise we're just going to assume that

1:01.0

All right we've got Groupon earnings, Visa earnings, but we will start with Whole Foods.

1:06.6

Shares of Whole Foods up today on its latest quarter. The company also raised guidance for the full year.

1:13.0

Jason, you follow the company.

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What'd you make of the quarter?

1:16.0

Yeah, you know, wow, they released yesterday after market closed and it was just another great quarter for Whole Foods.

1:21.0

I mean, this company is firing on all cylinders.

1:23.4

Thirteen percent sales growth it led to Comps, same store sales of 8.7 percent

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and that represented the eighth consecutive quarter this company's had same store sales of 7.8% are better and when you work in

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That's a huge number it really is and when you work in something like a restaurant or retail or something like that like that where same store sales is so critical to metric, that's really phenomenal.

1:44.5

And when you consider the rather tough economic climate we've been going through lately and

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