Motley Fool Money: 04.24.2009

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🗓️ 24 April 2009

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Amazon.com, Apple, and Netflix report better than expected earnings. What does the future hold? Will Ford’s earnings drive investors back to the automaker? And when a CEO uses profanity, does that help or hurt a company’s stock? Find out in this week’s Motley Fool Money podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Motley Full Money, I'm Chris Owen, I'm joined by Motley Full Senior Analyst
0:08.8	James Early, Seth Jason, and Shannon Zimmering.
0:11.2	Guys, thanks for being here.
0:12.2	Good to be with you Chris.
0:13.2	Good to be with you Chris.
0:14.2	Coming up, we'll talk about the latest earnings news from Amazon, Apple, and Netflix.
0:18.1	We'll offer up a few stock ideas and share a few beefs.
0:22.7	But we begin with good news, relatively speaking, from a US automaker.
0:27.2	On Friday, Ford reported a smaller than expected loss thanks to some heavy-duty cost-cutting.
0:33.2	Shares were up sharply on Friday, but have still fallen around 40% over the last year.
0:38.7	Shannon, what's the takeaway for investors on this?
0:42.0	Stay away is the takeaway for investors.
0:44.4	I think the dynamic and it's playing out all across the market is, you know, the news
0:48.0	was terrible, but it wasn't horrific and so consequently we're really excited about this
0:51.5	company.
0:52.5	But there's no reason to be excited unless Ford gets a brain transplant, they're not really
0:55.4	going to be competitive with smarter international automakers, Honda, and Toyota in particular.
1:01.3	I don't anticipate that that's going to happen until I don't think there's much there
1:04.2	there with this story.
1:05.6	Yeah, this is a 39% revenue drop, which is always bad news.
1:09.6	I mean, the analogy I use Ford is like a stab man trying to run to the hospital before
1:13.0	he runs out of blood.
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