guest is mario gabelli of gamco investors. leg here. >> checking out u.s. equity futures, you know, can you keep anything to yourself? >> sorry, joe, i knew we were going to do full disclosure about everything. you asked me what i owned. >> never an unspoken thought. your life is richer because you know it's 0.7 or 0.07? it just confuses all of us, it's not up very much. >> you're right, in fact it's completely flat if you're looking at the s&p. >> you can say unchanged. >> if you order apple's new ipad online today listen in, you may be in for a little bit of a wait. a notice on the website puts that wait at two to three weeks, comes after a surge in preorders after the product was announced last week. if you ordered last week, you should still get yours on time and apple says it plans to have the new ipad available in its stores on friday. >>> as oil prices rise, president obama is mounting an election year defense of his record on energy. the white house releasing a report that highlights the administration's progress on re

. >>> the s&p finishing off the best performance, as the markets await, we'll caulk to mario gabelli. february numbers. >>> all right. wall matt, we mentioned the dividend a bit earlier. >> 159 a year, we're talking about a significant yield there, one of the stocks that has become to a certainly extent interesting because of that yield. the walton family takes home an enormous amount of money in different of quarter and is paying, what, 50% on it too. you know, that sort of adds in, but it is an amazing amount of money. >> if you were a dividend seeker, you might lock into the stock for that very reason, no? >> absolutely. >> at the same time the dividend increase comes at an interesting time. we did get the sales much better than expected, helped by the warmer weather that we have seen across the country. versus 1.8% a year earlier. a lot of analysts saying this morning today's results are showing it's not willing to go head to head and actually several as a result of it just to get share. they're actually willing to defend some prices, that is paying off for the likes of a target t

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. >> yesterday we had mario gabelli on, and he was talking about pepsi and saying it's an interestingu've got the strategy to keep the whole company together, but he says because of frito-lay, if that doesn't work and the market doesn't respond, you could see it spin out. he thinks there's more value there if the market doesn't recognize it. >> mario is a friend of mine and he's a great friend financially and he plays at my golf courses, you tell him to go out and buy a little extra pepsi. >> i'm telling you what mario said yesterday. >> mario's a great guy, he's a very knowledge beable guy. >> did you fill out a bracket for the tournament? >> no, i'm not into it. i like watching the final couple of games but i'm not into it. >> i don't know why, suddenly i never was before either at this point, but now i am. but don't -- you make it a point for him to go on "fast money"? >> no. if he is looking for potential stock picks, that would be a perfect play, maybe he'll like the traders and he'll like what they have to say and he'll go out and buy the stock. >> you really can do well, joe, b