Nano Banana Steals the Spotlight From NVIDIA

Summary

Motley Fool Money — “Nano Banana Steals the Spotlight From NVIDIA”

Date: August 28, 2025
Host: Travis Hoyam (Motley Fool)
Analysts: John Quast, Dan Kaplinger

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Overview

This episode opens by dissecting Nvidia’s latest earnings, exploring whether elevated expectations and shifting market dynamics might provoke a new chapter for the AI chip giant. The team then pivots to Google's latest AI photo tool, “Nano Banana,” considering its implications in the competitive world of image-editing, and wraps by weighing recent retail earnings, including Dollar General’s performance and opportunities in value retailing. Along the way are lively debates, a few honest critiques, and some characteristic fun-poking at the hands of the hosts.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Nvidia Earnings: Good, but Not Great?

(00:05–07:49)

• Nvidia’s Data Center Weakness:

  • The much-anticipated earnings showed “slower sequential growth in revenue,” with a notably softer-than-expected result in the core data center segment. (01:20)
  • Investors, long accustomed to Nvidia trouncing guidance, seemed less impressed, as “sort of the expectations and the reality… have kind of caught up to match each other.” — Travis (07:32)

• Margins Reveal Demand:

  • Net profit margins have soared, showing intense, ongoing demand: “From 2018 through 2020, this company averaged a 30% net profit margin. Over the last two years it’s averaged a 52% net profit margin… you’re able to charge basically whatever you want and make a ton of profit.” — John (01:45)

• Customer Concentration Risk:

  • Only a few clients move the needle: “Just two customers… accounted for 44% of all [Nvidia data center] revenue… presumably Microsoft and Meta.” — John (03:07)
  • Raises the specter of risk if these big spenders change tack.

• Nvidia’s Moat & Competitive Threats:

  • With giants like Google and Amazon developing their own chips (e.g., TPUs), is Nvidia’s edge sustainable?
  • Dan argues Nvidia’s first-mover advantage and trust keep it ahead:
    “You aren’t going to get fired choosing us over a competitor. Sure, maybe you could save on price… but why not stay with the tried and true?” — Dan (04:27)
  • Competing Asics (specialized chips) may be nipping at Nvidia's heels, but not yet threatening its dominance.

• China Conundrum — Growth or Risk?

  • Export restrictions complicate Nvidia’s China sales, with talk of paying a “15% fee” just to get Blackwell chips into the country.
  • On strategic tightrope-walking:
    “If they succeed, then they get both the US and China. That’s a huge strategic win.” — Dan (06:21)

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2. Google’s “Nano Banana” AI: Playful Name, Serious Challenge

(07:49–13:53)

• What is Nano Banana?

  • Google’s Gemini has launched “Nano Banana”, a generative AI for photo editing. The hosts call it maybe “the best name in AI right now.” (07:57)
  • It allows playful and sophisticated image editing—“My daughter added rainbow unicorns to her background… My son gave himself huge muscles.” — Travis (08:22)

• Will this Disrupt Adobe Photoshop?

  • Adobe is both an early adopter and still develops its own models; the concern is whether the core AI model itself is now the differentiator, or if it’s the overall brand and suite.
  • Dan notes, “A company that has a huge brand in a specialty area like Adobe does, the most important job they have is defending that brand...as long as Adobe has the best tools, no matter where they come from, they get to keep their Adobe brand at the top.” (10:29)

• Competitive Pressures & Market Segments:

  • Google’s sudden leap means “it’s all of a sudden looking like, hey, Alphabet is far ahead of everybody else.” — John (08:50)
  • The real threat may be to Canva, not Adobe:
    “Nano Banana is ahead of Canva. And so maybe Canva actually has more to lose than Adobe Photoshop.” — John (12:46)
  • Adobe will likely hold onto professionals who demand pixel-perfect, high-detail results.

• The Platform Threat & AI Commoditization:

  • “Disruption comes from the bottom. It does not come from better products… it comes from an easier to use product that proliferates and then gets better and better.” — Travis (11:35)
  • Dan observes Adobe can simply acquire would-be disruptors if they grow too large.

• Google is Not Behind:

  • “Google is definitely not playing from behind… They just seem to be figuring out how to make these products useful and maybe even a little viral.” — Travis (13:38–13:49)

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3. Spotify’s Social Media Push: Hit or Miss?

(13:53–16:41)

• Stock Soaring, Features Expanding:

  • Spotify’s stock is up “540%” over three years (14:00), now boasting over 600 million users (14:18).
  • Adding direct messaging features in a bid to become “stickier” and foster in-platform sharing.

• The Skeptics Weigh In:

  • Dan doubts the feature’s mass appeal: “We’ve spent so much time training people when they get a message… that’s phishing… I’m not sure Spotify can untrain that.” (14:35)
  • John flags risk for spam and questions user demand:
    “Spotify used to have messaging… it got rid of it in 2017 because nobody used it… I don’t really see this as a game changer.” — John (15:51)

• A Light-Hearted Moment:

  • “John doesn’t want messages from people he doesn’t know. So when I send him K Pop Demon Hunter song, he’s going to be happy…” — Travis, jokingly (16:31)

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4. Dollar General and Trends in Value Retail

(17:21–21:12)

• Consumers Are Still Trading Down:

  • Dollar General’s steady same-store sales growth (2.8%) even as many competitors show negative comps.
    “They’ve never had a demand problem… their same store sales were up… any growth is a positive.” — John (17:38)

• Execution Matters Most:

  • Inventory woes have plagued performance, but inventory has “come down another 6%,” helping restore profitability (18:05).
  • “Now profits can bounce back.” — John (18:05)

• Long-Term Competitive Advantage:

  • Dan highlights Dollar General’s focus on staples and aggressive discounting as building lasting consumer habits:
    “Those frequent visits are adding to traffic in a way that’s going to be a long term boost for Dollar General… not just economically sensitive.” (18:38)

• Where’s the Opportunity?

  • John: Dollar General’s stock is still undervalued as it returns to growth.
  • Dan: Praises Dollarama (DOL, Toronto Stock Exchange) as “the nano banana of the dollar store world”:
    “Huge market penetration… more products… easier to walk around. Very bullish on Dollarama.” (20:36)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “You aren’t going to get fired choosing us over a competitor. Sure, maybe you could save on price… but why not stay with the tried and true?”
  Dan, discussing Nvidia’s enduring appeal, (04:27)

• “From 2018 through 2020, this company averaged a 30% net profit margin. Over the last two years it’s averaged a 52% net profit margin… you’re able to charge basically whatever you want and make a ton of profit.”
  John, on Nvidia’s power, (01:45)

• “Nano Banana is ahead of Canva. And so maybe Canva actually has more to lose than Adobe Photoshop.”
  John, on the generational shift in creative AI tools, (12:46)

• “I don’t really see this as a game changer for Spotify.”
  John, on Spotify’s new social features, (15:51)

• “It is, I’m telling you, it’s the nano banana of the dollar store world.”
  Dan, on Dollarama’s branding and business, (20:36)

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Important Timestamps

• NVIDIA Results Analysis: 00:05–07:49
• Nano Banana/Google AI Discussion: 07:49–13:53
• Spotify Social Network Features: 13:53–16:41
• Dollar General & Retail Value Plays: 17:21–21:12

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Tone & Takeaways

Motley Fool’s trademark banter and approachable analysis fill this episode, offering both high-level strategy and grounded, practical insights for investors. The team avoids hype, offering cautious optimism for Nvidia, wariness over Spotify, and highlighting genuine competitive shake-ups in creative AI. Despite Nano Banana’s silly name, it may herald a serious new phase in the AI race—while Dollarama, with a similarly playful moniker, just might be the unstoppable dark horse of retail.

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This summary covers all major themes and conversations, complete with key quotes, timestamps, and the investing spirit that characterizes Motley Fool Money.

Transcript

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Foreign.

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Is the talk of the market once again. After reporting earnings after the market closed on Wednesday, Motley Fool Money starts now. Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm Travis Oy. I'm joined by John Quast and Dan Kaplinger. And we have to start today with Nvidia. The company reported earnings after the market closed on Wednesday. The results were fine. We don't need to go through all of the numbers, but I think the big thing was the data center was.

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A little bit weaker than expected. This is kind of the opposite of what we've heard basically since the chatgpt moment.

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So Dan, when you look at Nvidia's.

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Results and where those expectations are and where results are actually coming in, what are you seeing?

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So the numbers that I looked at most closely, you're get, you're just seeing slower sequential growth in revenue. But when you look a little bit below beneath that, I think that you're still seeing a lot of the favorable trends that Nvidia has shown in past quarters. This quarter we saw a more normal cost of goods number that helped boost the profitability line. And guidance going forward looks like we're going to return to a faster re accelerated growth trajectory going forward.

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And that would be bringing things like Blackwell in.

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They're ramping that up. So I think that that was kind of the big story with their, with their guidance. And a lot of the conference call was about that ramp.

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Exactly.

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John, what are we seeing from a supply demand standpoint? Because it seems like that is ultimately.

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Where Nvidia's pricing power lies and that's how they get to the massive margins that they have which are really leading the semiconductor industry right now.

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Yeah, Travis, I think it's apparent that there continues to be a imbalance in supply and demand when it comes to Nvidia's products. And as you mentioned, the profit margins are a wonderful way to look at that. So just for Some perspective, from 2018 through 2020, this company averaged a 30% net profit margin. Over the last two years it's averaged a 52% net profit margin. When that kind of a spike happens, that shows that there is far more demand than what you are supplying to customers. And that's why you're able to charge basically whatever you want and make a ton of profit. And so that continues to happen for Nvidia. Even the, with the minuscule so called miss when it comes to data centers.

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The question here is how much can.

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That continue to grow? And the, the projections.

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I, I think Jensen Huang was talking.

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About $600 billion in data center spend in 2025. I've heard other estimates, but the number is huge and it continues to grow.

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But John, these. There's only so many companies that can spend 50, 100, $150 billion a year. And that's the kind of scale that.

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We'Re looking at here.

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So does that start to be a.

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Concern and is the future for Nvidia just sort of reliant on what we.

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Hear from CapEx budgets for 2026, for.

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2027, from some of the big hyperscalers?

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Yeah, when you're talking about something of this magnitude, of this scale, you're exactly right. There's only a handful of companies that can move the needle for Nvidia. And even in this most recent quarter there are just two customers who accounted for 44% of all of its data center revenue. That's presumably Microsoft and Meta. And I think it's one company accounted for 23% of all the data center revenue. So just a couple of players are accounting for this and that does introduce a little bit of customer concentration risk. But when you look at for example Microsoft and Meta and we don't know for sure that those are the companies, but assuming they are, I mean Microsoft is planning to spend 100 billion in 2026, an increase of 14% from this year. Meta could spend around the same 100 billion. It's expecting its growth in capital expenditures for AI to accelerate in the coming year. So I would say that things still look pretty good for Nvidia.

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Dan, the big question is not just the amount of spending, but where are.

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They going to spend that money? You know, John brought up Meta and Microsoft.

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They're not really developing their own chips.

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Or doing so effectively. Alphabet would be the other big customer. They are developing TPUs, we have AMD out there. How does Nvidia continue to stay ahead and is that going to be the case for the foreseeable future?

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I think it is the case for the foreseeable future and I think the way that they do it is simply by using their first mover advantage and making the case to would be enterprise customers. Hey, you can't do better than us. Yeah, sure, maybe there are competing chips out there somewhere. They don't have the performance, they don't have the track record. You're not going to get fired choosing us over a competitor. Yeah, sure. Maybe you could save on price if the thing doesn't blow up in your computer. So why not stay? Why not stay with the tried and true player in Nvidia.

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Yeah, that does seem to be the case. There's a lot of. There was a lot of talk even.

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On the conference call about Asics, which is going to be the competitors. The TPUs. Amazon has their own chips. They're, I think, you know, Alphabet has a big business with their TPU business.

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But they're building out their own cloud.

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And they're doing their own vertical integration on that.

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I do want to touch quickly on the China point, because that was a huge topic. H20s, not something that they were able to sell into China last quarter, not.

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In their guidance for the next quarter. But even this morning, we heard that there's discussions with the White House about.

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Potentially again paying that 15% fee to sell Blackwells into China. My question for you guys, is it. Is that going to be a big thing for Nvidia and is China going.

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To want to buy those chips?

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Because, you know, the administration put this out there that they want to get basically China and Chinese tech companies addicted to the Nvidia platform, and China doesn't want to be stuck on the Nvidia platform. So there's really some competing tensions there. Dan, what is the future of this relationship? Because it's obviously something investors are thinking about. Jensen Huang is spending a lot of time trying to get China to be.

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A real market for them.

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But is that going to be something.

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That'S going to be successful for Nvidia?

[D]

It's an interesting question, Travis, because it brings in a whole bunch of geopolitical issues that are kind of beyond the scope of kind of the corporate look. I do think that for Nvidia, Nvidia is smart enough to understand China's geopolitical ambitions are not to rely on a foreign supplier for anything. And so the question becomes, does China have the leverage to do some of the same things that you're seeing the US do in terms of getting foreign companies from the US to locate manufacturing facilities domestically? If China can align its political interests with. With Nvidia's aspirations for global growth without jeopardizing Nvidia's relationship with the US Then that's the. That's the needle that they have to thread. I think that's what Jensen Huang is going to be trying to do. It's a tall order. But if they succeed, then they get both the US And China. That's a huge strategic win.

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This will obviously be a huge story.

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For the market for the foreseeable future.

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Interesting that the stock was up slightly early in trading today.

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Now it's down slightly.

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So not actually that much of a.

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Reaction, which is new for Nvidia. And maybe this is the case where sort of the expectations and the reality for Nvidia have kind of caught up to match each other. Investors and analysts seems to sort of understand what to expect quarter to quarter. But there will be obviously more to come from Nvidia.

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We will come back and talk about another fun AI topic that is Nano Banana.

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You're listening to Motley Fool Money.

[B]

Welcome back to Motley Fool Money. Google's Gemini released Nano Banana this week. Maybe, maybe the best name that we have in AI right now. I thought that was a fun one. They're at least, they're at least having a little bit of fun with it.

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Instead of these really boring names. Even ChatGPT is just based on a.

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Technical terms, but this is a model that allows you to refine images. My daughter added rainbow unicorns to her background.

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My son gave himself huge muscles.

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So we had a lot of fun.

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With this over the last day or two.

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And that's just kind of the toy side. That's not the actual commercial applications.

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We're seeing this already starting to roll out with Adobe's suite of products and, and I think there's going to be much more of that to come.

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John, is, is this going to be a big deal? I know it's kind of a fun topic, but it actually seems like we may be reaching a point where AI.

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Is going to provide some productivity with some of these tools.

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Well, it doesn't take much poking around Nano Banana to realize that it's actually a really good AI photo editor. It really works well. And all this talk about Alphabet being behind when it comes to AI, that's been the conversation for a couple of years now, and then drops this product, which is really, really turning heads in about the competition in this space. It's all of a sudden looking like, hey, Alphabet is far ahead of everybody else. And you know, this has brought up conversations of if that's the case, if Google is ahead, or if Alphabet is ahead when it comes to Nano Banana, then who is on the, let's say, the wrong side of that development? And so there's questions when it comes to Adobe Photoshop, which is estimated to have 30 to 40% of the market share in this space. All of a sudden people are wondering, is this a Photoshop killer?

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Yeah, that's, that's a big question. But Adobe was really excited about this. You know, they had their own press release saying, hey, we're going to be an early adopter. Of Nano Banana, the, the thing that's.

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Interesting with Adobe is they're also creating their own models. And part of the thesis behind that originally was, you know, if we have a commercial customers and we have to make sure that what those models are training on is commercially viable, that we're not going to get sued, that our customers aren't going to get sued.

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So Dan, is this, does this sort of answer that question? That maybe the model isn't the differentiator for a company like Adobe and they are going to be using these sort.

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Of standard or generic models from a huge model maker like Google?

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A company that has a huge brand in a specialty area like Adobe does, the most important job they have is defending that brand. If that means making partnerships or entering collaborations with companies that could arguably be competitors, if it means adopting some of those third party platforms rather than trying to fight against them, then that's the good move. Because what you want people to think of when it comes to photo manipulation and editing is Adobe. And as long as Adobe has the best tools, no matter where they come from, they get to keep their Adobe brand at the top of mind for the consumers and the commercial customers that they rely on.

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I want to get both of your thoughts on this because I think one of the things that's interesting with artificial intelligence in general and a tool like Nano Banana is you can now create an image right in the Gemini app. You can create it in Photoshop if.

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That'S what you're comfortable with, or you.

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Can use a product like Canva.

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I'm not sure if Canva is actually using Nano Banana right now, but they do have some really great AI tools.

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And that's sort of like the bottom end. Typically disruption comes from the bottom. It does not come from the better products.

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It comes from an easier to use product that sort of proliferates and then gets better and better over time. So, John, I want to start with you.

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Is this the kind of AI tool.

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That, that solidifies Adobe's position in the market, or does this create more competitive pressure from beneath, whether that's from Gemini itself or from a product like Canva or another. Another system like that?

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Yeah, it's a really good question. And one of the things I do want to point out with Nano Banana, and this is something that Google DeepMind itself points out, is that it's still not perfect. It can't really do small faces, it can't spell things correctly. There are fine details that it can't render with the AI. And so when you think about who is using Photoshop, that's a professional community. You have to have those fine details fine tuned. And so I would imagine that Adobe predominantly keeps its professional customers. You'd look at something like a Canva. That's a lot of just regular Joes out there using this for a lot.

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Of YouTube thumbnails would be probably, yeah.

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And so maybe this is something where Nano Banana is ahead of Canva. And so maybe Canva actually has more to lose than Adobe Photoshop.

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That's interesting.

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Dan, what do you think?

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I think that Adobe is smart enough that they will always be looking down at would be disruptors. And if those would be disruptors stay in their lane, if they stay with relatively low revenue areas, if they stay with casual users, then they're not a threat. But if companies, individual companies turn into threats, Adobe's big enough, they can do the big tech thing. They can just pull out their cash, pull out their wallets, do the acquisition and they're small enough that those acquisitions are unlikely to raise antitrust concerns. And one way or the other, they'll, they'll make sure that their competition stays under control.

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I do think one of the takeaways.

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Does need to be that Google is definitely not playing from behind. That's something that John led with and they are in a much better position. They just seems to be figuring out how to make these products useful and.

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Maybe even a little viral. If, if Google can figure out how to go viral, that's going to be.

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A big thing for them.

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I want to touch quickly on one of the news items for one of the hottest stocks over the past few.

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Years, over the last three years. I don't know if you knew this.

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Guys, Spotify Stock is up 540%.

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So they are absolutely doing something right.

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But they're adding social features. This is one of the things they, all these platforms want to be stickier.

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They want to be a social network.

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This is a company that has over 600 million users.

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It's one of the biggest networks of users in the world.

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If you're adding things like DM features where I can, you know, send you.

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My playlist or send you a song.

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Is this a compelling way to make Spotify stickier, Dan?

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Or is this just another company that's going to fail trying to get into the social network?

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Hey, I get it. You want to keep people in your ecosystem. You want to expand the walls of your ecosystem so that you're not having people when they find out a good, when they listen to a good song on Spotify you don't want them going to meta and talking about it there. You want them talking about it on Spotify. But the concern that I have here is we've spent so much time training people when they get a message or a email or something that has an attachment, has something that they're supposed to click and play. We've trained people. All those are bad. That's phishing. You're going to get a problem with your hardware. I'm not sure Spotify can kind of untrain that. And the files, what Spotify is sending, I mean, music files are big, even links to playlists. Then you have to, you know, is the person of Spotify subscribers, they're going to be a sign in that kind of thing. You have to get the interface right. So there's a lot to get right for Spotify to have a good chance of making this work well.

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And are they going to try to.

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Make it commercial too? Would this be bands reaching out with.

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Via DMS and saying, hey, I'm going to be in your area, John, do you want to come to our concert? Maybe a can of worms, but maybe it's worth testing too.

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Yeah, I think that's my biggest fear is that my Spotify inbox starts to be spam messages from all these people. I don't know. I know that it says that, hey, you can reject messages if you want, but still there's going to be something for me to do. And I'm not sure that people actually want this feature. In fact, Spotify used to have messaging inside the app and it got rid of it in 2017 because nobody used it. I would imagine that that is because I think that's how I'm going to be. I'm not going to use it. I think that most people are going to be like me. And so I don't really see this as a game changer for Spotify.

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You heard it here first.

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John doesn't want messages from people he doesn't know.

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So when I send him K Pop Demon Hunter song, he's going to be happily listen to the latest. No, that's right there.

[B]

All right, when we come back, we are going to talk about consumers trading down and where there may be money to be made in retail.

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Welcome back to Motley Fool Money. Dollar General reported earnings this morning. The big retail trend from all the.

[C]

Other retailers we heard about, heard from a couple of weeks ago was consumers trading down.

[B]

John, how much of their performance is consumers trading down and how much is them just getting better at executing their business?

[E]

Yeah, as far as the stock performance goes, this is better execution on the business. They've never had a demand problem in the last several years. And so once again, their same store sales were up in the most recent quarter 2.8%. I mean, that's not red hot growth, but it's still growth.

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And that compares to some companies that are having negative comps.

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I think Target was negative comps. So whether you're looking at restaurants or retail companies today, same store sales growth is a positive sign.

[E]

Exactly. Any, any growth is continued to be a positive. And Dollar General has had that mostly for this entire time that it's been underperforming the stock. And the, the reason why it's been underperforming is its inventory got too high. It's had an inventory problem since 2022. In the most recent quarter, inventories came down another 6%. We're down to our lowest level since then. And so, you know, this is why they've been having profitability problems is because they've had to lower prices to move inventory. And now we're starting to get past some of that headwind and now profits can bounce back.

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Dan, what did you see in the quarter?

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So it validates for me the investing thesis for Dollar General and it kind of makes shows a mistake that I think that traditional grocery store chains are making. Dollar General made a move to move toward those sort of essential items as a way to get people into their stores. I think grocery stores could have nipped that in the. But they didn't. They took their pricing power for granted. They rode the inflation wave higher. The result of that, Dollar General is now competitive on many staple items and they have aggressive discounts that I think is building habits in consumers. It's like, yeah, come in every week, we have a new flyer, we have new discounts, we have new specials. Those frequent visits I think are adding to traffic in a way that's going to be a long term boost for Dollar General and it could be a long term behavioral shift. That's not just economically sensitive, not just a matter of trading down, but really tapping into the idea of people want the best bargain all the time, no matter what the economy's doing.

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I want to get out of here on this. With all the retail earnings that we've had over the past couple of weeks.

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Where do you think there's opportunities for investors?

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JOHN well, interestingly enough, Travis, I don't think that this Dollar General stock trend is over yet. I mean you're looking at this year they were predicting 580 in earnings per share would be on the high end of what they would earn this year. Now that's the low end and that is roughly about 14% growth. And so they are able to now improve their profits from their low point and they were priced according to the low point. So now as those profits do grow at a double digit rate, as they presumably continue to improve operations, I think the stock still has more room to run.

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Dan what are you looking at?

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I'm a big fan in the dollar Store area of Canada's biggest chain by far. It's dollarama. It's Ticker D O L on the Toronto Stock Exchange, maybe the best name.

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In the dollar store business.

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It is, I'm telling you, it's the nano banana of the dollar store world. It just flows off your tongue and you know they've got a great business too. It's huge market penetration. There's hardly a town in Canada that doesn't have a dollarama ubiquitous store presence, amazingly diverse product mix, more products than you see in the typical Dollar General or US Dollar Store and frankly a lot easier to walk around to find the things you need. The store layouts just a lot easier to navigate than anything that you see in the US Very bullish on dollarama and they've had great returns in recent years.

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Dollarama is one that I have not looked at, so maybe I'll add that to my watch list list. As always, people on the program may have interest in stocks they talk about and the Motley fool may have formal recommendations for or against. So don't buy or sell stocks based solely on what you hear. All personal finance content follows the Motley Fool's editorial standards and is not approved by advertisers. Advertisements are sponsored content and provided for informational purposes only. To see our full advertising disclosure, please check out our show notes for John Quast, Dan Kaplinger, our production leader, BART chain and and the entire Motley fool team. I'm Travis Hoyam. Thanks for listening to Motley fool money.

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We'll see you here tomorrow.