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…and it’s not getting from Wiz.
(00:21) Asit Sharma and Mary Long talk about abandoned acquisitions, AI, and robotaxis while looking at earnings from Alphabet and Tesla.
Then, (17:53) Matt Frankel and Ricky Mulvey check in on Boston Omaha, a holding company that recently lost half of its CEO team.
Companies discussed: GOOG, GOOGL, TTD, PUBM, TSLA, BOC
Host: Mary Long
Guests: Asit Sharma, Ricky Mulvey, Matt Frankel
Engineers: Dan Boyd, Tim Sparks
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Housing supply is slowly rising. So are prices.
(00:21) David Meier and Ricky Mulvey discuss the state of home sales and earnings from UPS and Spotify.
Then, (14:52) Alison Southwick and Brian Feroldi continue their summer school series with a language arts class for investors.
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Companies discussed: UPS, SPOT
Host: Ricky Mulvey
Guests: David Meier, Alison Southwick, Brian Feroldi
Producer: Mary Long
Engineers: Dan Boyd, Desiree Jones
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CrowdStrike’s update caused problems and blue screens of death for mission-critical operations across the economy. What does it mean for the cybersecurity company and the access tech providers will have going forward?
(00:21) Tim Beyers and Dylan Lewis discuss:
- The details of the global IT outage over the weekend and CrowdStrike’s response.
- CrowdStrike’s unique root access and whether vendors will continue to be allowed such deep access to customer Windows systems.
- Whether CrowdStrike is worth buying on the sell-off, or if management has something to prove first.
(17:16) President and COO of Kinsale Capital Brian Haney talks Bill Mann through how retail investors can judge financial companies and why insurers have such a tough time in states like Florida.
Companies discussed: CRWD, MSFT, KNSL
Our conversation with Brian Haney was from FoolFest 2024 – members can catch the full interview and everything from our FoolFest digital pass at foolfest.fool.com.
Host: Dylan Lewis
Guests: Tim Beyers, Bill Mann, Brian Haney
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineer: Tim Sparks
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What would you do if you had $10 million in cryptocurrency?
Nathaniel Eliason is the author of Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance. The Motley Fool’s Scott Kassing caught up with Eliason for a conversation about:
- How Eliason’s journey in crypto affected how he thinks about risk.
- Why speculative crypto games were rigged against retail traders.
- How fast money corrupts those grabbing for it.
Host: Scott Kassing
Guest: Nathaniel Eliason
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Tim Sparks, Kyle Carruthers
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Liz Ann Sonders is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist at Charles Schwab. The Motley Fool’s Bill Mann interviewed Sonders for our member event FoolFest. This show is a cut of that conversation. They discuss:
- How a deluge of economic information has changed investing.
- What’s happening beneath the surface of broad market indexes.
- The Magnificent Seven and the best performers in the S&P 500.
Companies mentioned: SCHW, GE, NVDA
Host: Bill Mann
Guest: Liz Ann Sonders
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Desiree Jones, Kyle Carruthers
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After a year and a half of the big names pushing the market forwards, some of the smaller companies are starting to go on a run.
(00:21) Bill Mann and Jason Moser discuss:
- The Russell 2000s unusual spike, and why it’s a mix of good news and bad news.
- The Crowdstrike update that grounded planes and the stock this morning, and what it says about cybersecurity overall.
- Earnings updates from Netflix, Domino’s, and Five Below.
(19:10) Cava CEO Brett Schulman spoke at FoolFest 2024 this week – we air a portion of his conversation with analyst Kirsten Guerra about his company’s stellar performance so far as a publicly traded company, how they’ll get to 1,000 locations and what he puts in his bowl when he visits the restaurant.
(33:56) Jason and Bill break down two stocks on their radar: Danaher and Alphabet.
Stocks discussed: CRWD, AAPL, META, NFLX, DPZ, FIVE, DHR, GOOGL, GOOG
Host: Dylan Lewis
Guests: Bill Mann, Jason Moser, Kirsten Guerra, Brett Schulman
Engineers: Steve Broido
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The traders are making money and credit card delinquencies are hopefully plateauing.
(00:21) Matt Frankel and Ricky Mulvey discuss:
- Bank of America’s comeback story.
- What big financial institutions are counting on from the Fed.
- Why commercial real estate giant Prologis is getting into the data center business.
Then, (17:58) Motley Fool contributor Rachel Warren interviews Dhruv Nagrath, a director at Blackrock, about fixed income trends for investors to watch.
Companies discussed: BAC, WFC, PLD, DLR
Host: Ricky Mulvey
Guests: Matt Frankel, Rachel Warren, Dhruv Nagrath
Producer: Dylan Lewis
Engineers: Desiree Jones, Kyle Carruthers
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Alphabet eyes its biggest acquisition of all time in Wiz, and a struggling retailer’s outlook gets worse – but it might be a buying opportunity for investors.
(00:22) Jason Moser and Dylan Lewis discuss:
- Retirement lessons and a reminder to ignore the exogenous from our colleagues at FoolFest 2024.
- Why Alphabet is eying a $23B cybersecurity acquisition.
- Five Below’s stock going on sale, and whether new leadership can put the struggling retailer back on track.
(16:25) Alison Southwick and Brian Feroldi continue their summer school series, running through the financial metrics that can help investors understand a company's valuation and one less common ratio that can tell you a lot about profitability.
Companies discussed: GOOG, GOOGL, FIVE, AAPL, NVDA, MSFT
Host: Dylan Lewis
Guests: Jason Moser, Alison Southwick, Brian Feroldi
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineer: Tim Sparks
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We’re picking CEOs for investors to watch.
(1:01) Recorded live at FoolFest 2024, Bill Mann, Asit Sharma, and Ricky Mulvey discuss earnings from Charles Schwab and their takeaways from the conference.
(7:50) Then, they draft their favorite CEOs in the following categories– capital allocation, growth stories, turnarounds, and wildcard picks.
A correction: The CEO of Kinsale Capital is Michael Kehoe.
Companies discussed: SCHW, OTC: CNSWF, ANET, WINA, KNSL, AMD, TTD, IBM, PEP, OTC: ADDYY, RKLB, ORCL, JPM
Host: Ricky Mulvey
Guests: Bill Mann, Asit Sharma, Erick DeVore
Engineers: Desiree Jones, Michael Towers of Marx Productions
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We’re on with members in Washington DC looking ahead at some of the major themes of the market in 2024 and looking back at a decade of FoolFests.
(0:49) Matt Argersinger and Andy Cross discuss:
- Why dividends and some specific market indicators are in focus at FoolFest.
- What to watch as earnings season picks up – Netflix’s metrics game, and whether spend returns for big-ticket items at Home Depot.
- Some of our favorite memories from a decade of FoolFests and a few trivia questions to revisit Fool stocks and the market over a 10-year period.
Companies discussed: NFLX, HD, PLD, BABA, HUBS, NVDA, ANET, PANW, MELI
Host: Dylan Lewis
Guests: Matt Argersinger, Andy Cross
Engineer: Desiree Jones
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