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It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week.

Senior analyst Jason Moser, Andy Cross and Ron Gross. Good to see you as always gentlemen.

Hey Chris. It's Spring Break. We're coming to you from Cancun, Mexico.

Not really, but we are taking advantage of Spring Break to bring you our spring cleaning specials.

So before we get into individual stocks, Ron Gross, let's go broad for a minute.

2019 so far, what's been the biggest surprise for you?

For me, it is the S&P 500 performance after a disastrous, and I mean disastrous, December.

First quarter, S&P 500 total return index, which includes dividends, up almost 14%.

The best quarterly performance since the second quarter of 2009, and the biggest gain in the first quarter since 1998,

I didn't didn't expect it, but I'm happy to say it.

Jason?

Yeah, I guess I'm going to go actually individual stock here.

To me, I really was surprised at the reaction to stamps.com.

The shares, when they announced that they were going to be ending their exclusive relationship with the United States Postal Service.

And I think the reason why, maybe I'm not as surprised about the reaction, but really when you dig into it,

I'm really surprised at how badly management repurchase shares over the past couple of years,

because they spent in 2017 about $135 million in share repurchases, and a little bit more than that in 2018,

when the share price was $250, and now you're looking at a share price of around $78, $79, after that news was announced.

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