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MarketFoolery: 04.24.2012

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🗓️ 24 April 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

AT&T, 3M, and Hershey report better-than-expected earnings and shares rise. Netflix reports better-than-expected earnings but shares plunge.

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, April 24th. This is Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill in

0:05.9

joining me in studio today for a million dollar portfolio Charlie Travers

0:09.0

from Motley Full Stock Advisor, Jim Mueller and for Motley Full Inside Value, Joe Meager.

0:13.6

Gentlemen, earnings Palusa continues.

0:16.0

Yay!

0:18.0

We've got Netflix, we've got Hershey, but we are going to start with a couple of Dow stocks, AT&T and 3M will start with AT&T.

0:25.8

Shares up 4% earlier today after first quarter earnings were up 5%.

0:31.8

Charlie Travers?

0:33.2

What's the story with America's largest phone company?

0:36.3

Sure, I think companies like AT&T and Verizon

0:39.1

are the unappreciated winners of the smartphone

0:41.9

and tablet revolution.

0:43.6

These companies have been catching a lot of heat lately for selling iPhones and supposedly

0:48.5

they depress their margins due to the subsidies and that is not the case here. They are benefiting greatly actually

0:54.8

from people using iPhone and iPads. And the reason is that these

0:59.4

subscribers have 90% higher revenue per user than people who are not on a smartphone.

1:06.3

And so the trend over the last year is as AT& has increased its subscribers from 31 to 41 million, a greater percentage of those people are on

1:15.5

smartphones than they were last year.

1:17.7

And so that means higher data plans and data packages where AT&T gets more and more money out of them.

1:24.0

And so I think AT&T is a big win here.

1:26.4

Joe, what do you think?

1:28.1

Well, last quarter was the first one where new wireless contracts

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