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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

Motley Fool Money: 07.27.2012

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2012

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Earnings news from Facebook, Apple, Amazon.com, Starbucks, and ExxonMobil.  Motley Fool co-founder Tom Gardner talks investing philosophy, Whole Foods, Zillow, and LinkedIn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

0:09.0

From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

0:19.0

Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Thanks for being here. I'm your host, Christel.

0:22.0

And joining me this week from Motley Fool Inside Value.

0:26.0

Joe Mayger, Motley Fool Income Investor James Early.

0:29.0

And for a million-dollar portfolio, Ron Gross.

0:31.0

Guys, we are not in the studio. We've got a live audience here at Fool Global.

0:35.0

That's so easy. Very exciting to have our Motley Fool One members in the house.

0:40.0

Earnings Paloza continues this week. We've got the latest on Apple, Starbucks, Exxon, Mobile, and more.

0:46.0

We've got Motley Fool co-founder and CEO Tom Gardner as our guest this week.

0:50.0

And as always, we will give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

0:53.0

But we begin today with Facebook. Facebook reported earnings for the first time as a public company.

0:59.0

It earned 12 cents a share, which is exactly what the market was expecting.

1:02.0

And yet, Joe Mayger shares a Facebook down nearly 20 percent this week.

1:07.0

What happened?

1:08.0

Yeah. Well, Facebook had a good quarter, but they needed a legendary quarter to justify the stock price.

1:13.0

You know, they came in today selling about 15 times sales for a little context.

1:17.0

Apple is at three times sales, so that's a big valuation.

1:20.0

The real story is a growth has been slowing. It was around 32 percent year over year.

1:25.0

A year ago was 100 percent year over year. And that is just not going to do for the amount of premium put in the stock price today.

1:32.0

And that's why it's down.

1:33.0

Ron?

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