Navigating the Financial Sector: Bank Evaluations and Success Stories

NYCB’s $1B cash infusion should steady the struggling bank, but don’t expect Fools to be jumping into the stock. And Family Dollar’s footprint gets a bit smaller.

(00:21) Matt Frankel and Dylan Lewis discuss:

- Family Dollar’s plans to close almost 1,000 locations over the next few years and what it says about the state of discount retail and real estate.

- New York Community Bank’s cash infusion and reverse stock split and why it’s still not enough to get Matt interested.

- The banks to watch instead.

(13:50) Deidre Woollard and Motley Fool analyst Kirsten Guerra dive into Duolingo and how a little bit of its marketing spend has driven a whole lot of revenue growth.

Companies discussed: DLTR, NYCB, DOUL

Host: Dylan Lewis

Guests: Matt Frankel, Deidre Woollard, Kirsten Guerra

Engineers: Desiree Jones, Dan Boyd

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