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Is This Retailer Amazon-Proof?

By Chris Hill, The Motley Fool

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The following video is from Wednesday’s Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill and analysts Matt Argersinger and Andy Cross dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.

Shares of Williams-Sonoma hit a new 52-week high. The specialty retailer reported better-than-expected earnings and increased its dividend by 41%. Should investors take stock in Williams-Sonoma, or are shares too pricey? Also, our analysts discuss four of the day’s biggest movers and give investors two stocks that they’ll be watching closely this week.

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The article Is This Retailer Amazon-Proof? originally appeared on Fool.com.


Andy Cross, Chris Hill, and Fool contributor Matthew Argersinger have no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends FedEx, lululemon athletica, Nike, and Williams-Sonoma and owns shares of Nike. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools don’t all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Apple's Growing Problem

By Chris Hill, The Motley Fool

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The following video is from Wednesday’s MarketFoolery podcast, in which host Chris Hill, along with analysts Matt Argersinger and Andy Cross, discuss the top business and investing stories of the day.

According to a Moody’s Investors Service report, Apple could have $170 billion in cash by the end of the year if the company doesn’t increase its dividend or its share-buyback program. How should Apple deploy its cash? Should Apple borrow a page from Google and start funding other businesses and initiatives?

There’s no doubt that Apple is at the center of technology’s largest revolution ever and that longtime shareholders have been handsomely rewarded, with more than 1,000% gains. However, after it’s major backslide recently, there is a debate raging as to whether Apple remains a buy. The Motley Fool’s senior technology analyst and managing bureau chief, Eric Bleeker, is prepared to fill you in on both reasons to buy and reasons to sell Apple and what opportunities are left for the company (and your portfolio) going forward. To get instant access to his latest thinking on Apple, simply click here now.

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1 Retail Stock Hitting New Highs

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The following video is from Wednesday’s MarketFoolery podcast, in which host Chris Hill, along with analysts Matt Argersinger and Andy Cross, discuss the top business and investing stories of the day.

Shares of Williams-Sonoma  hit a new 52-week high on Wednesday after the specialty retailer reported better-than-expected earnings. The company is also increasing its dividend. Is it too late for investors to buy Williams-Sonoma? What’s the biggest competitive threat to Williams-Sonoma? In this installment of MarketFoolery, our analysts debate the future of the specialty retailer.

Everyone knows Amazon.com is the big bad wolf in the retail world right now, but at its sky-high valuation, most investors are worried it’s the company’s share price that will get knocked down instead of its competitors’. The Motley Fool’s new premium report will tell you what’s driving the company’s growth, and fill you in on reasons to buy and reasons to sell Amazon. The report also has you covered with a full year of free analyst updates to keep you informed as the company’s story changes, so click here now to read more.

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Time to Buy This Beaten-Down Dividend Stock?

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The following video is from Wednesday’s MarketFoolery podcast, in which host Chris Hill, along with analysts Matt Argersinger and Andy Cross, discuss the top business and investing stories of the day.

FedEx reported a 31% decline in third-quarter profits, and shares were down on the news. Shares of FedEx are still beating the market over the past year. What do the latest earnings mean for investors? In this installment of MarketFoolery, our analysts discuss the future of FedEx.

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The relevant video segment can be found between 0:20 and 5:33.

For the full video of today’s MarketFoolery, click here.

The article Time to Buy This Beaten-Down Dividend Stock? originally appeared on Fool.com.


Andy Cross, Chris Hill, and Fool contributor Matthew Argersinger have no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends FedEx and UPS. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools don’t all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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1 Amazon-Proof Retailer

By Chris Hill, The Motley Fool

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The following video is from Wednesday’s Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill and analysts Matt Argersinger and Andy Cross dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.

Shares of Williams-Sonoma hit a new 52-week high. The specialty retailer reported better-than-expected earnings and increased its dividend by 41%. Should investors take stock in Williams-Sonoma, or are shares too pricey? In this installment of Investor Beat, our discuss the future of Williams-Sonoma.

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The relevant video segment can be found between 0:17 and 2:43.

The article 1 Amazon-Proof Retailer originally appeared on Fool.com.


Andy Cross, Chris Hill, and Fool contributor Matthew Argersinger have no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Williams-Sonoma. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools don’t all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Ronald Packard Sees Specialized Education Growing

By Matthew Argersinger, The Motley Fool

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In the following video, Ronald Packard, CEO and founder of K12, sits down with Motley Fool analyst Matt Argersinger and explains how K12 is poised to meet the needs of the students of 2013 and beyond.

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Matt Argersinger: So what should an investor be watching, say, in 2013 or maybe the next few years with K12? What are some of the milestones?

Ronald Packard: Well, I think what investors should watch is K12 continuing to do what it’s always done. What does it always do? We continue to invest in great products. We continue to grow enrollment quite rapidly. We continue to expand our addressable market by having new states approve virtual schools or new virtual schools open that are partners. We’re looking to open up more specialized schools, so you’ll see multiple schools in each state that might have a slightly different value proposition. Some might cater to kids who need a lot of remediation. Some might cater to things like vocational or highly gifted kids, so we’re going to see a lot more segmentation within the schools themselves, and I think that makes it better for customers, right?

Again, we’re big believers in the more choices you give students, the higher the odds the student will find a school that meets their needs. So I think just watch what we’re doing. We came under a lot of scrutiny with an article in The New York Times about a year ago, and we’ve continued to; students have come to us at the same rates, and we’ve continued to add new states. We have caps coming off in several states this year and next, so our business continues to move because we deliver great for students. Our students come to us, and that’s why we get referral rates; despite whatever recruiting efforts we do to make kids aware, it’s referrals from existing students. The best thing I can tell any investor is our business grows primarily because students like it and they tell their friends.

Argersinger: So you’ve kind of answered my last question, but I’ll ask it anyway. What’s maybe the No. 1 reason why an individual investor should buy K12 today and hold it for the long term?

Packard: I think the No. 1 reason is because we’re doing great things for kids, and if you do that, we’re going to continue to grow and have financial success. That’s it. And now where you look where the valuation’s trading at, it’s incredibly compelling to find a company at this valuation growing like we’re growing, doing a great thing for kids socially, and …read more
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Teachers Aren't Replaced by Technology; They're Augmented by it

By Matthew Argersinger, The Motley Fool

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In the following video, Ronald Packard, CEO and founder of K12, sits down with Motley Fool analyst Matt Argersinger and explains how his company complements traditional education.

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Matt Argersinger: So I have to believe that your business is tremendously scalable, so how disruptive is that to, say, teachers? I mean because, presumably, one of your curriculums, one teacher that you have can teach thousands of students versus your average teacher.

Ronald Packard: It’s not quite that way, because there’s a lot of elements that happen in a school that makes it harder to teach thousands. You can lecture to thousands, but can you grade a thousand history papers? Can you work with a thousand kids on their individual problems, mastering addition of fractions? So it’s probably more leverageable, but it’s not as leverageable when you actually get to the instructional part, the remediation part, the making sure you master. Can you really lead a discussion group with a thousand kids? And you can’t, right? So it’s more leverageable, but nowhere near.

I think our total company teaching ratio might be 30 to 33, so we have four or five thousand teachers. We have a lot of teachers at K12. They’re the most important thing we have, and guess what else happened? It turns out that teachers have great relationships with students; those students learn more. They spend more time on task, they engage more, so the teachers are not replaced by technology; technology is the way of allowing teachers to be more effective, a little more efficient, but more effective.

And so really in a lot of ways, this is a teacher’s best friend. We put our curriculum into classrooms, and we’re seeing great results. The scores of the school go way up because teachers have interactive pieces, help them teach the exact right pedagogy for certain mathematics techniques, engage the kids more in a classroom. So in a lot of ways, teachers are not replaced by technology; they’re augmented by it.

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Education That Conforms to Your Needs, Not the Other Way Around

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Ronald Packard, CEO and founder of K12, sits down with Motley Fool analyst Matt Argersinger and explains how K12 empowers students to “be everything they want to be.”

Packard says that on one hand, K12’s reimbursement per child has been falling for the past four or five years (after 50 to 60 years of increases), but on the other hand, people are becoming more receptive to K12’s model as they realize that traditional school systems aren’t always working effectively.

Packard states that K12 enjoys greater market penetration in the the Midwest and the Southeast than in the less receptive Northeast. He does mention, however, that K12 has opened a “flex” school in Newark, N.J., that allows kids to come in to a bricks-and-mortar building for schooling yet still receive one-on-one instruction via the Internet.

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The article Education That Conforms to Your Needs, Not the Other Way Around originally appeared on Fool.com.

Fool contributor Matthew Argersinger has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends K12. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools don’t all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Get With the Times: The Individualization of Education

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In the following video, Ronald Packard, CEO and founder of K12, sits down with Motley Fool analyst Matt Argersinger and explains the value and the need for individualized education.

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Matt Argersinger: So stepping back, the for-profit education industry, I wouldn’t say it’s controversial, but it certainly — it’s had its detractors in recent years. Has that spilled over to you guys at all, or is it you guys just operate in totally different space, and so are really not hindered by it at all?

Ronald Packard: I think “yes” to both of those. I think it has; we certainly, from a market valuation, have been dragged down with a lot of the college sector. They are very different businesses, so what they do is different. We save taxpayers money. Our schools are, on average, 30, 40% cheaper than what the taxpayers would pay for a brick-and-mortar school, on average, so we’re savings to taxpayers.

We also build great stuff, and it’s pretty visible when you see it. There are some great for-profit college companies, but others have cut a lot of corners. So I think we are dragged down with it from a market valuation point of view, but it’s an incredibly different business. There are no public company comparisons, anything like ours.

Argersinger: Right, because unlike most, states and municipalities are your biggest customers.

Packard: They are our biggest customers. We have customers who are states. We have customers who are school districts. Customers who are schools, teachers, and parents and students, so we have a pretty large customer set, and our job is to serve all of them. We’re not here to compete with school systems; we’re here to help state schools fulfill their promise of an appropriate education for every child, and a lot of people think of this as online education, technology-based education. I think of technology as the empowerment of individualization of education.

So there’s a concept prior to Internet and computers called differentiated instruction, which meant a teacher would teach to different kids based on where they are. Well, technology’s the ultimate form of that. We can now make education individualized. When we’re looking at remediating math, we’re moving to a world where you might have a hundred thousand kids who need remediation; they have a hundred thousand different curriculums that personalized to your specific needs.

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K12: Doing It the Hard Way

By Matthew Argersinger, The Motley Fool

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In the following video, Ronald Packard, CEO and founder of K12, sits down with Motley Fool analyst Matt Argersinger and explains that there’s a big difference between good educational content and bad educational content and why K12’s content is so good.

K12’s content offers rigor and interaction, he says, the latter which makes it interesting. In fact, the No. 1 reason students leave K12, he says, is the difficulty of the content.

The company also uses insights from neuroscience. For example, its content doesn’t require use of the scroll bar, since content that requires a scroll-down to be viewed is less likely to be remembered. Likewise, a wrong answer that’s presented in a fun manner will be remembered as the correct one, so the wrong answers in K12 courses are presented in as boring a manner as possible.

K12 wants to help as many kids as possible to master the content, so it invests substantial time and money every time it produces a course. Packard emphasizes how K12 calls on teachers, animators, and professors to create the best content possible.

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Sometimes, You Gotta Lose Money to Gain Money

By Matthew Argersinger, The Motley Fool

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In the following video, Ronald Packard, CEO and founder of K12, sits down with Motley Fool analyst Matt Argersinger and explains that cutting no corners in getting K12 off the ground and running has led to high customer satisfaction.

A transcript follows the video.

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Matt Argersinger: OK, so 2001, fall 2001, you’ve got about a thousand students. Flash forward to today. You’ve got about 130,000 students and close to 500,000 kind of accessing at least some part of your curricula. You’d gone from basically zero revenue in 2001 to $870 million this year.

Ronald Packard: Yes.

Argersinger: That’s phenomenal growth, by the way.

Packard: Thank you very much.

Argersinger: So what are the main drivers of that? Why does K12 have such a great value proposition?

Packard: Well, I think it’s because we do great stuff, right? We started out building a great curriculum, and it turned out there was nobody that really had online schools or knew how to do it, so we started offering the service of actually managing online schools. And from day one almost, from that 2,000, 1,000 kids, we’ve had tremendous customer satisfaction, and we spent a lot more building the curriculum than anybody else ever had.

So we wanted to be rigorous. We wanted to be interactive, so I think it’s the fact that we didn’t cut corners and we said, “Look, we’re going to invest a lot more.” And we had big losses in the first three to four years because we invested so much in the product and systems, for the first year and two years, I did almost every business function in the company. Every year was a reduction in my job for 11 straight years, but in the early years, I put every dollar we had into the curriculum and systems, and I figured we had a great product, then we could build the rest around it, and that’s what happened. When you look back to our employees on that day, it might have been 95% were building the product.

So I think the key is not cutting corners, and for 11 straight years, we’ve had super-high customer satisfaction ratings and we also — we want to deliver the best education possible and deliver it to as many kids as possible. And if you keep those two kinds of core goals, internalize them with the whole culture, you end up building great stuff, and you also want to give it to everybody, right? Because what kind of person would you be if you built a great product and you didn’t want to distribute it everywhere?

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The Key to Success: Find a Need and Meet That Need

By Matthew Argersinger, The Motley Fool

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In the following video, Ronald Packard, CEO and founder of K12, sits down with Motley Fool analyst Matt Argersinger and explains how his experience at his previous company, Knowledge Learning, helped him identify the need for a company like K12.

At Knowledge Learning, Packard ran preschools and early childhood education centers as part of his first job in the education industry. Packard also analyzed investments in the education industry targeting kids ages 0-13.

Working in the industry and having a school-age daughter gave Packard the idea and the expertise needed to start a firm to teach kids online. In 2000, K12 was born.

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Fool contributor Matthew Argersinger has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends K12. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools don’t all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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If Your School Is Working for You, You Probably Aren't in K12's Demographic

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Ronald Packard, CEO and founder of K12, sits down with Motley Fool analyst Matt Argersinger and explains some of the perception challenges facing his company.

When Matt asks why K12 stock trades for less than its IPO price, Packard says it’s been dragged down by the fallout from for-profit college stocks as well as strong political forces that favor the status quo. Nonetheless, he says, K12 has exceeded all of its revenue growth and EBITDA growth expectations.

Packard says K12 has been attacked by many entrenched forces that don’t like that the company offers students choices. He states that K12’s success — it now has 130,000 students — has attracted more critics.

Describing his student population, Packard says he “sees more than half of his students coming in below grade level,” making for test scores that are worse today than they were five years ago, and he says K12 needs to “fix” them.

Poor test scores in K12’s schools have hampered stock performance, but Packard ends the video by arguing that they are a “function of [the] demographics, not of what [K12] does.”

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Education: How Societies Create Wealth

By Matthew Argersinger, The Motley Fool

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Ronald Packard, CEO and founder of K12, explains his belief that investing in education is an investment in society’s future wealth and how that inspired the creation of K12.

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Matt Argersinger: Well, I’m joined by Ronald Packard today from K12. Thanks for spending some time with The Motley Fool.

Ronald Packard: It’s a pleasure to be here.

Matt: Let’s go back real quick. It’s mid- to late-’90s. Up until that point, your experience is mostly consulting [in] investment banking. I want to know about the lightbulb that went off. Was it always a passion for education or was it kind of you saw the Internet and you saw an opportunity and this seemed like [unclear].

Packard: I think it was always a passion for education. I really believe it’s the way to [unclear] create wealth is to have an educated workforce and populations, so I was back in the ’90s, father of a six-year-old girl, who I just sat down one day to work on her math with her and didn’t think she was getting enough math in a good public school. And I thought, you know, I’ll just go online and try to buy a more advanced math course and teach her what the best schools in the world are doing — being a mathematics/technology kind of guy myself.

And I went online. What I found was lots of supplemental sites but nowhere to say this is first grade math, teach her this. If she passes this test, she’s on par with anyone in the world. So I said you know what? Maybe if I built one like that, others may want that. And the light went on. There’s no reason with the Internet today that you couldn’t have a complete school online. And I wrote a business plan, raised funding, and started the company.

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Fool contributor Matthew Argersinger has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends K12. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Blackberry's Mystery Buyer and Apple vs. Samsung

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The following video is from Thursday’s MarketFoolery podcast, in which host Chris Hill, along with analysts Matt Argersinger and Jason Moser discuss the top business and investing stories of the day.

Shares of Blackberry were up sharply after the company announced that a partner had ordered one million of Blackberry’s Z10 phones. In this installment of MarketFoolery, our analysts speculate about Blackberry’s mystery buyer, and weigh in on the growing competition between Samsung and Apple .

There’s no doubt that Apple is at the center of technology’s largest revolution ever, and that longtime shareholders have been handsomely rewarded with over 1,000% gains. However, after the company’s major backslide recently, there is a debate raging as to whether Apple remains a buy. The Motley Fool’s senior technology analyst and managing bureau chief, Eric Bleeker, is prepared to fill you in on both reasons to buy and reasons to sell Apple, and what opportunities are left for the company (and your portfolio) going forward. To get instant access to his latest thinking on Apple, simply click here now.

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Coca-Cola's Battle in China

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The following video is from Thursday’s MarketFoolery podcast, in which host Chris Hill, along with analysts Matt Argersinger and Jason Moser discuss the top business and investing stories of the day.

Authorities in China have accused Coca-Cola  employees of using GPS technology to illegally obtain classified information. Coca-Cola says it is cooperating with the investigation. What does the controversy mean for investors? In this installment of MarketFoolery, our analysts talk about Coca-Cola’s China challenge.

Coca-Cola’s wide moat has helped provide its shareholders with superior gains in the past, but the company faces some new threats to its continued market dominance. The Motley Fool recently compiled a premium research report containing everything you need to know about Coca-Cola. If you own or are considering owning shares in the company, you’ll want to click here now and get started!

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Dow's New High: Too Late to Buy?

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The following video is from Thursday’s Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill, and analysts Matt Argersinger and Jason Moser dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.

In today’s installment, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hits another all-time high. Is it too late for investors to buy stocks? Our investors talk about fears of a coming market correction, and whether or not there is any upside left for investors today, and give a couple of stocks they still like, even in this market climate. That story, plus today’s four biggest rises and falls, and three stocks we’ll be watching closely this week, that you should be watching too.

One of the stocks our guys still like, even with the Dow at new highs, is Boston Beer. Boston Beer‘s Samuel Adams brand helped to redefine beer and kick off the craft beer revolution in the United States. Success breeds competition, though, and, while just a few years ago, Boston Beer had claim over most of the craft beer shelf, today the field is crowded. Can Boston Beer rise above the rest, or will it be squeezed between small local breweries on one side, and global beer giants on the other? To help you decide, we’ve compiled a premium research report filled with everything you need to know about Boston Beer‘s risks and opportunities. Just click here now to find out whether Boston Beer is a buy today.

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3 Stocks to Watch Right Now

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The following video is from Thursday’s Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill, and analysts Matt Argersinger and Jason Moser dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.

In this installment of Investor Beat, our analysts explain why they’re watching Bank of America , Wells Fargo , and Hibbett Sports .

Bank of America’s stock doubled in 2012. Is there more yet to come? With significant challenges still ahead, it’s critical to have a solid understanding of this megabank before adding it to your portfolio. In The Motley Fool’s premium research report on B of A, analysts Anand Chokkavelu, CFA, and Matt Koppenheffer, Financials bureau chief, lift the veil on the bank’s operations, including detailing three reasons to buy, and three reasons to sell. Click here now to claim your copy.

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The Dow Hits Another New High: Too Late to Buy?

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The following video is from Thursday’s Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill, and analysts Matt Argersinger and Jason Moser dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average hits another all-time high. Is it too late for investors to buy stocks? In this installment of Investor Beat, our analysts take a look at the market‘s winning streak, and explain why they still like individual stocks like Coach and Boston Beer .

Boston Beer‘s Samuel Adams brand helped to redefine beer and kickoff the craft beer revolution in the United States. Success breeds competition, though, and, while just a few years ago, Boston Beer had claim over most of the craft beer shelf, today, the field is crowded. Can Boston Beer rise above the rest, or will it be squeezed between small local breweries on one side, and global beer giants on the other? To help you decide, we’ve compiled a premium research report filled with everything you need to know about Boston Beer‘s risks and opportunities. Just click here now to find out whether Boston Beer is a buy today.

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1 Retail Trend We're Watching

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The following video is from Wednesday’s Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill and analysts Matt Argersinger and Jason Moser dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.

In today’s installment, our analysts discuss the February retail sales numbers and why Amazon‘s strength comes from more than just increased online shopping. That story, plus four of the day’s biggest ups and downs on the market and two stocks we’ll have a close eye on this week.

Amazon may be the king of the retail world right now, but at its sky-high valuation, most investors are worried it’s the company’s share price that will get knocked down instead of its competitors’. We’ll tell you what’s driving the company’s growth, and fill you in on reasons to buy and reasons to sell Amazon in our Motley Fool premium report. Simply click here now to get started.

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