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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Algebra of Happiness

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

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🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Walmart delivers. Pinterest plummets. Baidu reports a rare loss. And Taco Bell gets into the hotel business. Analysts Andy Cross, Ron Gross, and Jason Moser tackle these stories and weigh in on earnings from Alibaba, NVIDIA, and Wix. Plus, NYU professor and best-selling author Scott Galloway talks about his new book, The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning.  Get $50 off your first job post at www.LinkedIn.com/Fool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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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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