Industry Focus

 Last Friday, Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett filed their quarterly 13-F form, which reveals what stocks Berkshire held as of the end of the first quarter, March 31, 2020. Motley Fool Contributor Jason Hall joins the show to share his thoughts on Uncle Warren’s moves, including one sell he thinks Buffett got wrong. Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

Financial fraud has been a hot topic - between Luckin Coffee and short seller reports, no investor seems to be immune from the claims which range from the ridiculous to the righteous. Joining host Emily Flippen to breakdown the ins and outs of financial fraud is Motley Fool advisor Bill Mann. Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

Still missing this year’s March Madness? Join Dan Kline and Emily Flippen as they bring their top 8 retail companies face-to-face in the first ever Retail Bracket Showdown. Who will come out on top? Tune in to find out! Stocks: WMT, HD, BBY, COST, DG, TJX, W, TGT Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

Business payments solution company Bill.com (NASDAQ: BILL) has been one of the best-performing financial stocks during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode of Industry Focus: Financials, host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP take an in-depth look at the company and what investors need to know. Plus, hear Frankel and Moser discuss why they're keeping an eye on Goldman Sachs(NYSE: GS) and Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) this week. Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

News broke earlier this week that Uber is interested in buying meal delivery service Grubhub for roughly $6 million. The deal would be the latest in a long series on acquisitions in the meal delivery space, but does it make sense?We dive into the deal, explore why the meal delivery market might be a winner-take-all proposition, and why the deal could run into regulatory issues. Stocks: UBER, GRUB Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

Between the pandemic and the Saudi-Russia oil price war, it’s been tough to find energy stocks to like right now. Industry Focus Contributor Matt DiLallo joins the show to share some energy stocks he’d consider buying amid COVID-19 Stocks Mentioned: CWEN, CWEN.A, AY, TRP, CHK Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

All our lives have changed in recent months as we’ve adapted to living in quarantine. How many of those changes are permanent, though, and how many things will return right back to normal when the pandemic subsides? Industry Focus hosts Emily Flippen, Dylan Lewis, and Nick Sciple come together to break it down Stocks Mentioned: RDFN, PYPL, Z, ZG, UBER, GRUB, TWTR Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter Thanks to Molekule for supporting Industry Focus  Get 10% off your first air purifier at http://www.molekule.com with code fool10.

Motley Fool Contributor Dan Kline joins Emily Flippen to discuss if their delivery habits will change at all in the light of a potential Uber/Grubhub merger as well as if (and when) good companies will be ruined by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

Earnings season is coming to a close, and we just got a glimpse at the latest results from PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) and Square (NYSE: SQ), including how both businesses performed in April as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the U.S. economy. In this episode of Industry Focus: Financials, host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP dive into the numbers that investors need to know. Then, the pair answers a listener question on the seemingly irrational optimism in the stock market and discusses why they have Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) on their radar right now. Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

Today we take listener questions like: Should I buy stocks in a sector or an ETF that covers the sector? How should I think about position sizing? Do you have any mental tricks for buying a stock on the way up? Tune in for answers and more! Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

We’ve got a long one for you this week and Motley Fool Canada’s Jim Gillies is joining us to break it all down. We’ll discuss Warren Buffett selling all his airline stocks and one stock in the aerospace industry Jim would be excited to buy night now. On the back half of the show, we discuss Tesla’s latest earnings and Elon Musk’s recent Twitter rant.  Stocks Mentioned: BRK-A, BRK-B, AER, TSLA, SHOP, AMZN, LUV, DAL Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

The preppy retailer has been struggling for a while, but this week J Crew announced it was filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. We unpack what chapter 11 actually means, how J Crew wound up here, and what other retailers could be in trouble.Stocks: TJX, OLLI, GPS Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

Join Host Emily Flippen as she dives into the universe of investing in the “global space economy” with the co-Founder and CEO of ProcureAM, Andrew Chanin. ProcureAM is the issuer behind the world’s first pure-play space ETF, UFO, that aims to help investors get diversified exposure to one of the fastest growing and disruptive industries available today. Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) Vice Chairman Greg Abel held the company's first-ever virtual annual meeting on Saturday, and we also got a look at Berkshire's first quarter earnings report. In this episode of Industry Focus, host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP discuss the key takeaways from the meeting and earnings, and give their take on Buffett's decision to sell all of Berkshire's airline stocks. Then, Frankel discusses why he's got his eye on Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) despite Buffett's airline sales and Moser talks about why he's watching PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) ahead of the company's earnings report. Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

In the midst of this pandemic, companies still have to report earnings. We check in on Spotify and Apple's quarterly figures and how both companies managed to put up pretty good numbers even with everything that's going on in the world.   Stocks: AAPL, SPOT Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

Earlier this month, United Technologies completed its merger with Raytheon, creating the new Raytheon Technologies and spinning out its Carrier air conditioning and OTIS elevator businesses. Motley Fool contributor Lou Whiteman joins the show to discuss investing in spinoffs and the good, the bad, and the ugly of the United Technologies spinoff companies.  Stocks Mentioned: OTIS, CARR, RTX, HWM Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

On this week’s episode of Industry Focus: Wildcard Wednesday it's a podcast mashup as host Jason Moser joins the Everything VR & AR podcast with Brightline Interactive's Tyler Gates and Sophia Moshasha to talk about investing in immersive technology, the upcoming implications of 5G and a whole lot more. The Everything VR & AR podcast is available on all major platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Sticher and Google Play or you can find it right here: https://www.thevrara.com/podcast Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

Motley Fool contributor Dan Kline joins host Emily Flippen to take a dive into the deep end on one of the biggest consumer discretionary entertainment companies in the world: Disney. Disney has long been a cornerstone of culture for kids and adults alike, but as COVID-19 has taken over the world, will this giant manage to hold up? Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

In this week's installment of Industry Focus: Financials, host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP take a deep dive into the latest earnings from Live Oak Bancshares (NYSE: LOB) and Ameris Bancorp (NASDAQ: ABCB), and then take a closer look at Travelers Insurance (NYSE: TRV) and how the COVID-19 pandemic could impact the insurance industry. Finally, Moser and Frankel discuss why Markel (NYSE: MKL) and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) are on their radar this week.    To get 50% off our Stock Advisor service, go to https://IF.Fool.com. Check out more of our content here: TMF's podcast portal YouTube Twitter Join Our Motley Fool Podcast Facebook Group LinkedIn StockUp, The Motley Fool's weekly email newsletter

Mirror mirror on the wall, who are the fastest growing tech companies of them all? We dig into Uber, Shopify, and The Trade Desk and talk about the ludicrous growth each business has posted over the past 5 years. And we take a listener question about insider selling.Stocks: UBER, TTD, SHOP