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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The 10X Disruption

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Wal-Mart surprises. Alibaba works its magic. Jack in the Box pops. And Home Depot hits a new high. Plus, Stanford economist and RethinkX founder Tony Seba talks about a big disruption to the transportation industry. Thanks to Slack for supporting The Motley Fool. Learn more at slack.com.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.2

From Fool Global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

0:33.2

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

0:36.5

for Million Dollar Portfolio, Jason Moser and Matt Argusinger and from Total Income,

0:40.6

Ron Gross. Good to see you as always, Jents.

0:42.6

We got the latest headlines from Wall Street. We will dig into the disruption coming to the

0:47.6

auto industry and as always we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

0:51.4

But we begin with signs of life in the general retail sector.

0:55.5

Walmart's first quarter profits came in higher than expected.

0:58.8

As did targets overall a better picture than we were talking about a week ago

1:04.2

with Macy's, Coles, etc. Before we go, big picture, Maddie.

1:09.1

This is a good quarter from Walmart.

1:10.8

Walmart, I guess the headline there is the 63% increase in online sales, which was a big acceleration.

1:17.5

I mean they were doing, I want to say last year at this time they were doing single digits.

1:21.0

So they've obviously ramped that business pretty well.

1:24.0

I think you have to put it in perspective though.

1:26.0

Walmart doesn't break out e-commerce revenue as a percentage or even the actual number.

1:31.2

But according to E-Marketer, their sales last year online were 14.4 billion.

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