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Fool Video: XM, Starbucks, and Best Buys

By Mac Greer – Updated Apr 5, 2017 at 9:20PM

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NASDAQ: SBUX

Starbucks Corporation

Market Cap

$97B

Today's Change

(0.76%) $0.64

Current Price

$84.81

Price as of September 26, 2022, 3:00 p.m. ET

A breakup between XM and Starbucks, and two good buys.

What will the breakup between XM (Nasdaq: XMSR) and Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) mean for shareholders? Is Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) a good buy for investors, or should bargain hunters look at Costco (Nasdaq: COST) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT)? And will money management companies Legg Mason (NYSE: LM) and Diamond Hill (Nasdaq: DHIL) produce big money for investors? In this installment of "FoolWatch," Motley Fool Online Managing Editor Lou Ann DiCosmo talks about some stocks on the Fool radar.

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Lou and Mac own shares of Starbucks. Mac owns shares of Costco. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Stocks Mentioned

Starbucks Corporation

$65.32 (-5.03%) $-3.46

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.

XMSR.DL

Walmart

WMT

$131.31 (0.96%) $1.25

Costco Wholesale Corporation

COST

$480.30 (2.98%) $13.90

Legg Mason, Inc.

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