The Question of Leverage
MarketFoolery
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
KB Home and Delta Air Lines hit new highs on 4th-quarter results. Motley Fool Asset Management’s Bill Barker analyzes the results. Plus, we dip into the Fool Mailbag to consider the question of leverage. We also preview this weekend’s radio show and provide an update on the podcast shop! (http://shop.fool.com)
(Tangents include the “Coffee Achievers”, state licensing, and owning your own airline.)
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| 0:17.0 | It's Thursday, January 11th. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Motley Full Asset Management, Bill Barker. |
| 0:25.0 | Happy Thursday. |
| 0:26.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:27.5 | We've got a lot to get to. |
| 0:28.5 | We've got earnings. |
| 0:29.5 | We're going to dip into the full mailbag to talk ETS. |
| 0:32.3 | We've got a preview of the Motley Full Money Radio |
| 0:34.3 | show this weekend but we're going to start today with housing. |
| 0:37.3 | KB Homes shares up 11% this morning. Fourth quarter profits and revenue came in higher than expected |
| 0:44.4 | stock hitting a 10-year high yes yes getting it all the way back to a little bit |
| 0:52.2 | less than half of its pre-recession high. |
| 0:56.3 | If you got into K-B home in say the year 2000, well you're pleased that with the 10-year |
| 1:02.0 | run the stock has had from well the last 10 |
| 1:05.8 | years but as you point out it's nowhere near where it was in 04 or 5. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah wild ride if you were to open up a long chart, you know, 20 year chart of |
| 1:18.0 | K. B. Holmes, you would see a huge peak right there at 0.5. I've talked about this before where something goes straight up and |
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