Below is a brief excerpt transcribed from Friday's edition of The Macro Show hosted by Retail Analyst Brian McGough and Director of Research Daryl Jones.

McGough: This Year Has Been Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel → Be Careful In The Second Half - SNAG 0110

This year has been like shooting fish in a barrel on the long side. #Quad2 has been very good to Retail.

There's been a lot of hated names, highly-levered, small-cap; all the factors have been spot on with Quad 2 and we've had a lot of winners.

The least of which is Gamestop (GME) which started that off in late December and has been interesting to say the least.

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Quad 2 has also been very good to the general business environment. 

Now out of any slide in this deck, this is probably the most important.

McGough: This Year Has Been Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel → Be Careful In The Second Half - SNAG 0112

This is showing the consensus estimates for 2021 versus where we were in 2019. The EBIT margin expectations are flat out too low.

This is very Quad 2 behavior; you're going to have these small-cap, hated, junky, operationally and financially-levered names which are going to be beating numbers.

We have to be careful in the back half of this year. The consensus is looking for between 8%-9% growth on the top line versus the back half of 2009. So people are looking for pent-up demand on this thing, so you have to be really careful.