It's Thursday, October 23rd. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hell joining me in studio today

for Motley Fool Funds, Bill Barker. We did not get hordes of email telling us that yesterday's

podcast was so horrible that

well we'll try again that never have those guys on again.

It was a particularly bad you know trio to keep on schedule.

To keep on schedule and as one Twitter account put it meandering.

I think that's an accurate description of yesterday's podcast.

Somewhat meandering.

Yeah, was that in a complimentary way?

I, overall... Can the word meandering to use in a complimentary way?

It was acknowledging that it was meandering, but then it seems...

Celebrating it. This person seemed okay with yesterday's

podcast but we'll dip into as a one-time thing. No this is a regular

listener yeah we do have some earnings to report. We've got Under Armour, but let's start with a couple of supply companies and we'll go with the biggest first. Caterpillar. Third quarter profits up 19%, much higher than expected.

They raise their guidance.

The stock is up more than 5%, which for a sort of big behemous of a company like Caterpillar that's a huge

deal this is the best day the stock has had in three years what do you think of

their quarter?

You know, we're not invested in it in the funds and it was a decent quarter.

The top line was more or less flat or the year before but they

improved their earnings on mostly flat sales to an impressive degree. So in short term, you can actually please

shareholders quite a bit with surpassing on their earnings.

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