It's Wednesday, July 7th.

Welcome to Marketfoolery.

I'm Chris Hill with me today, Alicia Alfieri.

Thanks for being here.

So glad to be here.

So we're going to talk Uber.

We've got a pretty awesome consumer good story.

We're going to discuss.

But we're going to start today with Whirlpool.

Because shares of Whirlpool are up 3% after the company, JP Morgan put out a note to their

clients saying, this is one of our top picks.

I'm a little surprised they used the word hated because they, in their notes, said that

Whirlpool was a hated stock on Wall Street, but primed to beat expectations in the quarters

ahead.

I'm a little surprised that it's a hated stock.

In part because you go back to January 2020, the stock is up 50%.

This seems to track, Alicia, with something we've talked about on the show before, which

is the investments that people are making in their homes.

Yes.

So for, let's say, this increase is not without merit.

So Whirlpool, for their last quarter, saw a revenue growth of 24% a year over year,

which was driven by consumer demand and some pricing actions that they took due to inflation

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