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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Plotta. Move higher today for the SMP five

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Speaker 1: healthcare and technology shares offsetting disappointing trade data from China.

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Speaker 1: Prospects for higher US interest rates, dragging commodities lower, Gold

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Speaker 1: percent to twelve sixty four forty Crude oil down two

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Speaker 1: point eight percent, dropping a dollar twenty three of barrel

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Speaker 1: forty three forty three. Right now on West Texas Intermediate ten,

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Speaker 1: you're up seven thirty seconds, had yield one point seven

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Speaker 1: five percent. SMP up three to two thousand sixty a

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Speaker 1: gain of two tenths of one percent. Down, Industrials down

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Speaker 1: analyst Eric bel tunis. We have this environment this year

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Taking Stock with pim Box and Kathleen

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Speaker 1: Hayes on Bloomberg Radio. Where do you invest your money

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Speaker 1: if you are looking at weaker than estimated corporate earnings,

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Speaker 1: this year, and perhaps oil prices will remain around forty

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Speaker 1: is you call in Bill Barker, his co portfolio manager

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Speaker 1: for Motley Full Asset Management, and he's based in Alexandria, Virginia,

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Speaker 1: but he joins us here in our studio. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much, real great to see, great to be here.

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Speaker 1: So give us the strategy. I was reading the list

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Speaker 1: t m F g X is the symbol, the Great

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Speaker 1: America Fund, Correct and Texas Roadhouse Tractor Supply. There's got

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Speaker 1: to be a theme to all this, and go ahead,

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Speaker 1: tell us what it is. Well, it's a small and

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Speaker 1: MidCap based fund, and the theme is American companies and

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Speaker 1: within the small MidCap space, what has been working particularly

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Speaker 1: the story for one of our larger holdings and is

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Speaker 1: making news today. Drew Industries is up ten percent on

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Speaker 1: on what has been continuing good news for the RV industry.

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Speaker 1: Tell people how you discovered Drew Industries. How that came

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Speaker 1: to be in the portfolio. Well, the Molly Full, as

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Speaker 1: I was working on a newsletter. H This is over

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Speaker 1: a very surprisingly small, undiscovered company that had had done

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Speaker 1: and it's uh, it's just been today. Is is sort

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Speaker 1: for this quarter a very good quarter for macro economic

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Speaker 1: reasons that I think everybody can gas, which is interest

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Speaker 1: rates are low, UH, jobs are good, the unemployment rate

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Speaker 1: a dividend of one point seven percent. Stock has advanced

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Speaker 1: about sixteen percent so far this year. UH. The symbol

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Speaker 1: Supply really doesn't have have that excuse. In determining what

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Speaker 1: gotta then decide when you're gonna buy, when you're gonna sell.

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Speaker 1: Uh do You typically look for big down days and

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Speaker 1: then reassess what's the plan you So it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a buy and hold strategy. And both of those companies

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Speaker 1: But for the most part, we're really not trading a lot.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to keep well. We we we do keep portfolio

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Speaker 1: turnover at or below, so you know, we're not gun

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Speaker 1: note also that Marquel Court is another company in the

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Speaker 1: it's a mini Berkshire. That that's the label that it

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