Industry Focus

The fast food chicken wars are heating up and they’re moving to mornings. Host Emily Flippen is joined by Motley Fool contributor Dan Kline to break down what McDonald’s is doing with its breakfast chicken sandwiches and what that means for shareholders. The two also discuss the latest retail and restaurant bankruptcies while debunking exactly why those companies have failed.

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In this week’s installment of Industry Focus: Financials, host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP discuss the impressive fourth-quarter results from JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). Plus, the pair discusses how investors should react to stock market sell-offs like we’re seeing today. Finally, Moser reads some of the latest stocks our listeners bought and he and Frankel share why they’re watching the Vanguard REIT ETF (NYSEMKT: VNQ) and Ameris Bancorp (NASDAQ: ABCB).

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Netflix reported earnings and the market was scared by management's admission that new competitors ate into U.S. subscriber growth, we unpack that and give an update on the newest entrant of the 1,000,000,000,000 club, Alphabet.

Stocks: GOOG, GOOGL, NFLX, DIS

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Dan McMurtrie (@SuperMugatu) and Alex Draime of Tyro Partners join the show to discuss their recent online dating paper (available here).  The conversation runs the gamut of online dating related topics, from how it’s making meeting through friends obsolete, to its role in increasing cosmetics sales, to how much room online dating companies like Match Group  have to improve monetization, and in this bonus episode we dive into even more topics, including investing in Bangladesh and how to get the most out of Twitter

Stocks Discussed: MTCH, FB, MOMO

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Matt DiLallo joins the show to share what he looks for in a dividend stock and his three favorite dividend-paying stocks right now.

Stocks Mentioned: EPD, BIP, NEE, MA, JNJ

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Dan McMurtrie (@SuperMugatu) and Alex Draime of Tyro Partners join the show to discuss their recent online dating paper (available here). The conversation runs the gamut of online dating related topics, from how it’s making meeting through friends obsolete, to its role in increasing cosmetics sales, to how much room online dating companies like Match Group  have to improve monetization.

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Stocks Discussed: MTCH, FB, MOMO

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Analyst Asit Sharma joins Emily Flippen as they take a deep dive into the cruise industry- discussing everything from industry dynamics and headwinds to tailwinds and specific stocks.

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On this week’s episode of Industry Focus: Financials host Jason Moser sits down with Huntley Garriott, President of Live Oak Bank to learn more about Live Oak’s tech platform and specialty lending business, how he sees the banking environment taking shape for 2020 and beyond, and much more!

Stocks: LOB, GS, SQ Thanks Health IQ.

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Recent reports from App Annie and eMarketer give us a refresh on the social media space, we dig in and talk about how it all affects Pinterest, Snap, and Bytedance's TikTok.

Stocks: SNAP, PINS, FB, TWTR

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On Monday, Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners offered to buy the rest of Terraform Power that it didn’t already own. Jason Hall joins the show to share what this deal means for investors and to lay out a couple renewable yieldcos listeners may want to add to their watchlists after Pattern Energy and Terraform Power have been bought out over the past year.

Stocks Discussed: BEP, TERP, BIP, AY, CWEN

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