4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Following a listener tip, we break down "The Amazon of Japan" -- Rakuten. While the company is known for its e-commerce platform, it does so much more, including: payments, credit cards. life insurance, securities, advertising, and mobile network services. The company is well positioned for many mega-trends, but does it belong on investor's watch lists?
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seypool. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today |
0:16.0 | we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. |
0:19.1 | Wild-Carg! Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in. |
0:27.4 | It's Friday March 6th and we're tackling a listener question. I'm your host |
0:30.9 | Don Lewis and we are stuck again with the just okay Brian for oldy |
0:35.6 | you know Brian I'm not even the one writing these intro at this point this is you |
0:39.6 | being self-deprecating I mean it's amazing isn't it? I think it's a good |
0:44.0 | branding right there. I think it's good to be humble. I don't think you need to be |
0:47.1 | that humble though. Happy to have you on again to talk about a tech company |
0:52.0 | that got thrown our way thanks to a listener review. |
0:55.0 | We're going to get to that in a second before though. I mean you're doing a kids |
0:59.0 | stock market challenge Brian what's going on over there? |
1:02.0 | Yeah so for listeners that remember from a couple of months ago I've been going to my children's |
1:07.1 | elementary school to teach the kids about stocks and I have kids from second grade to fifth |
1:12.1 | grade picking from a list of stocks and we're kind of tracking them through, you know, throughout the school year to see how they do. |
1:17.5 | And I'm trying to go back in year after year to kind of hammer home the long-term investing. |
1:21.5 | But I got to tell you some of these kids are |
1:23.5 | just crushing it. I mean since September I have kids that are up 40-50 or even 60% |
1:30.4 | since September so absolutely stopping the market. |
1:34.4 | And a big shout out for Tesla Motors |
1:36.4 | for being the star performer. |
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