Walmart’s Flywheel Keeps Spinning

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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But the retailer’s valuation is giving investors more questions. (00:14) Nick Sciple and Ricky Mulvey discuss: - Highlights from Walmart’s quarter. - What shoppers want from mac and cheese. - Why nicotine pouches may be “the biggest consumer product story this decade.” Then, (17:04) Robert Brokamp kicks off a two-part series with Christine Benz, Morningstar’s Director of Personal Finance and the author of “How to Retire: 20 Lessons for a Happy, Successful, and Wealthy Retirement.” Visit our sponsor: Check out Public’s bond account offerings at www.public.com/motleyfool Companies discussed: WMT, COST, PMI, MO, TPB Host: Ricky Mulvey Guests: Nick Sciple, Robert Brokamp, Christine Benz Producer: Mary Long Engineer: Rick Engdahl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Shoppers are trading up and down.
0:07.1	It's the middle that gets stuck.
0:08.5	You're listening to Motley Fool Money.
0:13.6	I'm Ricky Mulvey, joined today by our returning champion, Nick Seiple.
0:17.1	Nick, it's good to have you back.
0:18.4	How you been?
0:19.8	Been great, Ricky. I've been out on parental leave the past few months trying to wrangle
0:24.6	two under two. It's been fun, but it's great to be back in the adult world here with you.
0:28.8	Lots to talk about, maybe talking about one of the places I pick up diapers more often than
0:33.7	not. What a different conversation to come into versus two under two.
0:39.1	Stocks are down today is tensions between Russia and Ukraine increase. I mean, I think it's worth
0:44.6	mentioning at the top, Nick, but we don't have anything smart to say here other than like,
0:48.7	we hope this isn't, like, I don't want to look at gold and be like traders are going to
0:52.4	gold, but I mean, I got nothing smart to say other than this.
0:55.7	We hope this isn't really bad.
0:57.4	Yeah, certainly scary headlines, nuclear saber rattling by Russia is going to continue
1:02.5	more of these same kind of growing tensions, I would say, between Russia and the West.
1:09.5	Just like this is one of those risks. Warren Buffett has talked
1:11.8	about in the past. You can't control. You kind of have to live with as an investor. The world is always
1:15.5	uncertain. This is the cost of doing business. If these threats end up to anything in the real world,
1:19.7	no advice we can give you. We'll protect you from this sort of thing. But unlikely that, you know,
1:25.1	these words will lead to actions, but certainly something to pay attention
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