A Slow, Expensive Housing Market
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. Learn more about the Range Rover Sport at www.landroverusa.com Companies discussed: UPS, SPOT Host: Ricky Mulvey Guests: David Meier, Alison Southwick, Brian Feroldi Producer: Mary Long Engineers: Dan Boyd, Desiree Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 Juli 202425min
:( Your PC Ran Into a Problem
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
22 Juli 202432min
Getting Robbed, Making Millions, and Learning about Risk
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Juli 202429min
Liz Ann Sonders on Market Concentration and Economic Cycles
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
20 Juli 202429min
Small Caps are Back!
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
19 Juli 202440min
Big Banks Roll On
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
18 Juli 202429min
Alphabet’s Next Act in Cybersecurity
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
17 Juli 202430min
The CEO Draft
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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
16 Juli 202429min
