things like coke, or kroger's or walmart, what have you.ow, this goes back to when the bull market started. trends matter. trends are real. stocks typically trend down or up until they doan. what we know is, that is the trend line. by all accounts, we have responded to this line beautifully, beautifully, beautifully, and my thinking is, we're going to come down and check this once again. so that's sort of the setup. i want to do a few other things just for fun. a little bit of funny mentals. this is the price per share versus earnings per share since the prior peak in 2007. so obviously price gets a little bit cheap maybe, maybe gets a little bit high. but it's certainly above trend if you were to measure, quote, trend by earnings. and you want to look at it in numerical form, here it is, trailing pe, 27. forward pe. 26. if you pay a multiple like that, latest quarterly growth, nothing. latest 12 months almost flat. and five-year growth, growth is decelerating. the multiple is quite high relative to what it has delivered. here is the multip

do you want to hide in a kroger or a walmart? do you want to return to the depressed macy's, jcpenney or kohl's? or the one with the bull's-eye on its back, target. when only a few stocks are working, why the heck do i still think that the sum of the parts of the s&p 500, it is 500 stocks, the individual musicians, so to speak, is worth more than this whole stressed out orchestra, with discordant conductors? it is simple. hardly a day goes by when one of the individual players doesn't prove itself worthy as a soloist. even when it plays its music en masse. let's start with some close to home names. i was stunned by the cash flow which is money in the bank. and the accelerating revenue growth. or arg. all i can say is that it is only now getting appreciated as the analyst who never believed sales force cared about profitability, finally starts coming around. how can you not? i care tremendously about who sale force is doing business with. who their customers are. i listen for the big deals on the call. you want powerful fast growi

looking for friendly, hard working associates to join the team and candidates can apply online or visit krogerurday between the hours of 10 and three. no appointments is necessary. >> and an effort to end alcohol ban at a popular concert series on capital hill has fallen own deaf here's. >> capital riverfront is standing by decision to ban alcohol the award park for friday night concert series organizers want to maintain the beauty of the park and provide a clean and safe environment for people to enjoy. local residents collected more than 1600 signature uming group to reverse its decision. >> a magazine getting slammed this morning nor an article that tells them how to find the perfect swimsuit for a bobby. it is in the issue of discovery girls targeting readers between 8 and 12. girls that are curvy should wear tops that fit like a bra. while straight up and down figures can add curve patterns and it was not long before people on social media shared outrage encouraging 30d didn't insecurities in young girls. . >> fascinating they didn't run that by anybody. >> i think alarming to 12 come on

prices to the test around los angeles and found 365 cost equal to or sometimes less than trader joe's or krogeres. >> reporter: now, there are plans to open stores in states like washington, oregon, texas and ohio. trying to create a new image of high quality at affordable prices. a concept that's already worked in retail before, but not with food. think the gap, branching out with old navy, saks fifth avenue opening saks off 5th. or nordstrom launching nordstrom rack. whole foods fighting to stay competitive in a health food industry it helped create. for "today", gadi schwartz, nbc news, los angeles. >> sparked a discussion here during that piece. >> it did. >> wondering why they can't get the prices down lower in all the stores. >> right. >> kale for everyone. >> not today. >>> time for what's trending today. >> how far would you go to help, or even please, a total stranger? >> depends on what they want. >> bha what do they want? >> let's say this, researchers from cornell set out to answer the question. they found that people tend to underestimate the willingness of total strangers to lend

cincinnati, kroger says it's holding a nationwide event to fill 14,000 open jobs across all its supermarket chains. most of the openings are for part-time workers who bag groceries, stock shelves or work the register. cincinnati-based kroger has 2800 stores under several brand names. >>> fox 2 in detroit, where a former flint city administrator claims she was fired when she reported mayor karen weaver may be redirecting charitable cash for her own political gain. the lawsuit was filed monday. the mayor's office says it will not comment on civil litigation. the county prosecutor says he'll look into it. >>> and this is a live look at oklahoma, city, oklahoma city from our fox affiliate fox 25, the story there, you see it, the aftermath of the tornados that rip aid cross that state yesterday. leaving two people dead. the national weather service says 23 tornadoes were reported across five states. it says about 44 million people live in areas that could see more tornadoes and more heavy storms today. >>> that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from special report. there are two billion people who don't have access to basic banking, but that is changing. at temenos, with the m

. >>> and kroger is starting a nationwide hiring event to fill 14,000 jobs, and many of it is for part-time associates for those who stock shelves or ring up items at the cash registers, but kroger says that all of the jobs are permanent. thank you, scotty. that is the new economy, permanent part-time. >> and a company, too, whose stock is in the news. and we can show you the shares, yep. >> yep. >> kroger got a downgrade today. i can't remember by who, but i thought that it was down 2%. >> and up yesterday as well. >> somebody on twitter will tell us where. >> and it was up yesterday by 3%, and giving back some of it. they released the 8k, and went to the conference, and talked about the deflation trends they are seeing are not going the chak them, they are not going to lead them to the change in the earnings estimates which is bulli bullish, but people are concerned about the deflation they are seeing, and the same things at costco and walmart for that matter. >> and as jeffrey piper who started kroger at underweight. >> well, they have some headwinds and deflation is a big deal. >> and the oil is rebounding today, but below the

if they become more of a kroger competitor or something, i don't know. business to be in? >> well, it's certainly a lower margin than the historical fleet average. it's been a business they've been in now for more than a decade, probably two decades. that's not new news. walmart is the largest factor in the grocery business. that is not new news. it's an area of importance. what it does for them is it also improves traffic in the stores. traffic has been up year over year in the comp traffic for six consecutive quarters. that's really good. you have to take care of the consumer and walmart does that. >> bud, we appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you, andrew. >>> bud bugatch. >>> developing story. egyptair plane carrying 66 passengers and crew disappeared from radar early this morning over the mediterranean. hadley gamble joins us now from paris. hello again, hadley. >> reporter: hey, there. good morning, joe. essentially what we have heard over the last several minutes from greek defense officials, essentially the minister coming out and saying that, as

kroger and walmart in particular have set up click and collect. you set up the model on your iphone or instead of having it come to your house, you pick it up at the store which turns out to be really convenient. a lot of consultancy work i cisses it's a little more convenient than having it come to your house because you actually control when you get the groceries. it's like a drive-through at the pharmacy. you go to the back of the store, they put it in your trunk and you go on your way. on your way home from work, it's really convenient. order it on your way home and pick it up on your way home. >> let's take the example of kroger since you named them best in class. what percentage of revenue is online today versus say a year or two ago? is that piece of the pie growing for them? >> it's fairly minimalist to be blunt. they just got into this. they were a laggard on the omnichannel and they did acquisition of a business called vitacost. it's online vitamins like it sounds. but what we're talking about are fresh groceries and how hard that is it to do. how expensive it is. i would agr

kroger is holding a national hiring event to fill open jobs for its supermarkets chains including whelps and food 4 less. many are for part-time associates who bagged groceries, es, orup items at the cash register. the jobs are permanent. investment research for $12 million in cash to offer data analytics to institutional corporate private equity and venture capital clients. leucadia andjoin leave the operation. the deal is expected to close at the end of this month. amazon.com will let people post earns to its website and money from advertising and royalty. it puts it in more direct competition with google's youtube. it art he has its own original productions to compete with netflix. that is your latest bloomberg business flash. betty: we will talk about disney. cashing in big on "captain america: civil war."it brought in in its dumbest at box office debut, just ahead of disney's second-quarter earnings after the bell. will the success of its other hits like "star wars: the force concerns overoff cord cutting and espn? theirpeople forget that cable business is half of their operating income? paul: primarily espn is the biggest profit driver and has been a great pro

alix: kroger is holding a nationwide hiring event for all of its chains including ralph's and food 4 less. many are for part-time associates who stock shelves or at the cash register. the company says the jobs are permanent. will update its definition of healthy. it told the maker of kind food and nuts bars that their product should not be called healthy and asked for reevaluation of the terms noting that the fat in its bars comes from nuts. that is your business flash update. alix: that's a fair point. scarlet: i like those kind bars. alix: they are really sugary. scarlet: that's why they taste good. julie: i'm looking at retail right now with cap coming out with its april comparable sales and culinary earnings. andes are plunging by 12% in particular, same-store sales were down 7% in april. analysts were looking for a gain orh limitary earnings at 31 $.32. analysts had estimated $.34 and when you break it down and look at the individual brands within gap, it looks even worse. this is using the bloomberg intelligence tool to look at those sales by various chains. here is the latest month -- banana republic in blue and old navy in orange. on a