It's Thursday, February 21st.

Welcome to Market Foolry.

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today.

It's a packed house today.

For Motley Full One, Jason Moser, for a million dollar portfolio, Charlie Travers,

and for Motley Full Inside Value Joe

major what's up guys howdy to the left of mean investors to the right I know it's

jam-packed we're gonna talk beer we're gonna talk cars we're gonna to start with big retail

Walmart's fourth quarter earnings came in higher than expected they also raised

their annual dividend 18 percent maybe not a surprise Charlie, that shares are up around 3 percent this morning.

This seems like that's kind of a really strong quarter for that.

I'm still back on the beer and cars.

We'll get there.

We'll get there.

As long as you promised.

It's actually a pretty good year for Walmart, like you said.

Coming out of the financial crisis, Walmart had a couple of rough years where their comps were just down I think eight quarters in a

row yeah things are a lot better for them their full year sales were up 5%

profits up 10% like you mentioned they raised the dividend and for the first time in a long time

we can say that they're domestic and their foreign operations did quite well.

That said their outlook for this quarter is week I think there's a lot of hubbub around that

internal memo that got leaked saying February is complete catastrophe and

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