It's Wednesday, June 9th. Welcome to Marketfoolery. I'm Chris Hill with me today. Clay

Burning in the house. Good to see you. Hey Chris, how's it going? It's going well. We've

got data analytics to discuss. We've got some restaurant news. We're going to begin

in the Midwest with Casey's general stores. Casey's wrapped up the fiscal year with a solid

fourth quarter. Profits and revenue came in higher than expected. Same store sales were

up nearly 13%. I mean, I get the stock is down a little bit today. This, this seem like

a good quarter. Yeah, it did. And it was a pretty good year overall. And to me, this

is just kind of a rock solid business. They're consistently growing, you know, not at a

staggering pace. I think, you know, five to 10% clip on an annual basis, consistently

generating profit and using that to fund investments. Most notably, they're acquiring

more stores. I think this past quarter, they announced they're going to acquire about

50 stores, circle case stores, which I'm familiar with from my time in North Carolina.

So just kind of a rock solid business. They pay the dividend. And I think they actually

could be a beneficiary to an extent of inflation in terms of being able to pass off some

of those costs to customers. So, you know, like I said, just rock solid business, you

know, that should should be just fine. And it seems like one of those businesses, certainly

if you look at this quarter, I mean, part of the story for Casey's was a nice increase

in foot traffic in the stores as more people get vaccinated as more states open up. This

seems like, and by the way, people are traveling, they need to put gas in the tank, you know,

get some snacks, get some pizza, that sort of thing. It seems like Casey's, I don't want

to put any pressure on them, but it seems like they are set up for a pretty nice second

half to 2021. Yeah, absolutely. So like you said, foot traffic is open up. Something

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