It's Wednesday, November 11th.

Welcome to Market Foolry.

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today for a million dollar portfolio, Jason

Moser.

Happy Veterans Day to you.

Thank you to all the veterans out there across America and around the world who tune into market

foolery. Thank you for all that you do. We're going to talk a lot of retail today because

there's a lot going on in retail but we're actually going to start

with some earnings from Middleby. Middleby if you're unfamiliar the

basically the restaurant supplier. I mean, pretty much good chance that if you've been to a restaurant in the United States in the last 12 months, they've got some middlely equipment back there preparing your food.

Yeah.

Third quarter revenue up 11%.

They missed on profit by 2 cents a share and the stock is down 10%.

That's that that seems like an overreaction for not a very big miss.

Possibly. I mean, I think so the biggest question we always have with middle B, quarter

and a quarter out, is in regard to organic revenue growth.

So that's, you know, revenue growth that is on their own without any acquisitions.

And with businesses like Middleby, Middleby is an acquisition-based company.

I mean, their strategy is to grow via acquisition.

And it's not to say that that's a bad thing by any mean.

I mean, if you look at what Middleby has done to date,

Salim Masool, the CEO there, has just developed a phenomenal track record in an obvious,

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