Tech: Paypal and Alphabet Spell it Out for Investors
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It's earnings season, so we're breaking down quarterly results from two Fool favorites, Alphabet and Paypal. We hit the headline numbers, key metrics, and dig through management's comments to catch all the info investors need to know.
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| 0:19.5 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:24.0 | It's Friday, January 27th, and we're breaking down quarterly results from PayPal and Alphabet. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm your host, Dylan Lewis, and I'm joined in the studio by fool com tech editor Sarah priestly. |
| 0:34.5 | Sarah, how's it going? |
| 0:35.3 | It's good. |
| 0:36.3 | It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:36.7 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:37.7 | Are you excited for pizza today? |
| 0:39.6 | I am very excited. |
| 0:41.0 | It's going to derail my new Year's resolutions but that's okay. |
| 0:44.5 | That's a callback to your episode of Vincent Chen, right? |
| 0:47.8 | Are you finding that the Apple Watch is being helpful? |
| 0:51.1 | Yes, it's definitely reminding me at 9 o'clock at night that I have done zero steps, so I just end up walking around my living room. |
| 0:57.5 | Just pacing? |
| 0:58.5 | I do that when I'm on the phone all the time. That's how I get my exercise in. |
| 1:01.5 | That's probably a good idea, yeah. So Sarah, a ton going on in tech this week, next week, next couple of weeks with earnings. |
| 1:09.0 | Two pretty followed fool companies reported yesterday after the bell. We dug into the reports and are ready to talk about him. |
| 1:17.0 | You did some of the heavy lifting with PayPal. I dig into Alphabet. Why don't we talk about PayPal first? How did the results look? |
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