The Algebra of Happiness
Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
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🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:20.8 | From Fool Global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money. It's a Motley Fool Money |
| 0:33.7 | radio show. I'm Chris Hell joining me in studio this week's senior analyst, Jason |
| 0:37.2 | Meuser, Andy Cross and Ron Gross. Good to see you. He's always gentleman. |
| 0:40.3 | Chris, we've got the latest headlines from Wall Street for the second week in a row. |
| 0:44.2 | Our guest is Scott Galloway and as always we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on |
| 0:47.6 | our radar. But we begin with a retail giant getting a little bit gianter. Walmart shares |
| 0:53.7 | up this week after a rock solid first quarter report. Ron, same store sales were looking |
| 0:58.2 | good. E-commerce sales looking really good. Is gianter a word? It is now. |
| 1:03.9 | Another strong quarter, Chris. Earnings, beat expectations, sales were light due to weakness |
| 1:08.3 | overseas, but the US was up 3.3%. International down 4.9%, but if you exclude currency, up 1.2% |
| 1:17.3 | not too shabby. Com sales up 3.4%. E-commerce is the big number here. Up 37%. There are |
| 1:24.8 | costs associated with that, but still a very strong quarter. |
| 1:29.3 | You look at the investments they have been making in E-commerce, Andy. They've been piling |
| 1:34.3 | up these types of quarters for a while now. I can't think of a single quarter where they |
| 1:40.0 | just knocked it out of the park with E-commerce being up 80% or something like that, but you |
| 1:44.4 | start stacking up these 20, 30% gains and it pays off. |
| 1:48.1 | Guys, I think Walmart is the Microsoft equivalent from 2015. And Doug McMillan may be like the |
| 1:55.1 | Sachin Adella of 2019. You look at the investments they're making E-commerce-wise. Flip |
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