Should I Use Options?
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🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Bed Bath and Beyond falls 20% as 1st-quarter sales are cut in half. Walgreens Boots Alliance struggles with its 3rd-quarter report, while Costco posts strong same-store sales in June. Brian Feroldi analyzes those stories, plus we dip into the Fool Mailbag to discuss how options could fit into your investing strategy if you have already built a “buy and hold” portfolio of stocks.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, July 9th. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Hill. |
| 0:07.0 | With me today, the pride of Rhode Island. |
| 0:09.0 | It's Brian Feraldi. |
| 0:10.0 | Good to see you. |
| 0:11.0 | Chris, it is awesome to be back. |
| 0:13.0 | We are going to dip into the full mail bag. |
| 0:15.6 | We have a lot of retail to get to, including Costco. |
| 0:19.7 | We're going to start with the stock of the day. |
| 0:21.7 | And sometimes when I say stock of the day that |
| 0:23.7 | means really good things for what's happening with that stock and sometimes it's |
| 0:27.4 | what's happening today with Bed Bath and Beyond because first quarter sales for |
| 0:31.8 | Bed Path and Beyond fell nearly 50%. |
| 0:34.7 | On yesterday's show we talked about the number of store closing so far in |
| 0:39.4 | 2020. We can add Bed Bath and Beyond to the list because they're going to be closing 200 locations over the next two years and they should Brian |
| 0:47.8 | Yes, they should this was a pretty rough report although to be fair it was over March, April and May so it's |
| 0:57.5 | kind of hard for a retailer to report good results during that period, |
| 1:03.0 | but it's hard to find really any good news in this report, |
| 1:07.1 | Chris. |
| 1:07.4 | As you noted, sales fell 49% to 1.3 billion. |
| 1:11.8 | That's quite the drop. |
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