The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

This duo compared the performance and volatility of dividend-paying stocks to non-payers over a half century (1973-2023). Following the recent update, Hartford Funds found that non-paying public companies averaged a 4.27% annual return over the prior half-century, and were 18% more volatile than the benchmark S&P 500.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The hot rumor, the rumor that is dominating the stock market today too, is that Macy's might be acquired and taken private for $5.8 Jeff Janette, he's been there, he's been with the company for over 20 years, I think. But he's been in the CEO seat since 2017. We've known about this one for a while.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Stock market volume often starts dropping in June, it hits lows in July and August, before returning for the fall. That was really the theme behind five stocks that let you eat cake. This was November 2017. Those five stocks taken together averaged a gain of 115%. That's a lot of production.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Now we're a stock market podcast so these are stock stories. Visiting me around the campfire this week, are five talented Motley Fool contributors, each of whom has a story to tell, five stock stories to make you smarter, happier, and richer. Because when stocks go down, the dividend reinvestment buy more shares.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

Chewy has a somewhat complicated relationship with its former parent company, which was PetSmart. The founder and CEO, former CEO of Chewy, sold the company to PetSmart in 2017 for just over $3 billion and since then, PetSmart has since spun the company off to go public. Market cap.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2025

Neither Bill nor Emily knows what stock is coming. I'll turn to one of them to talk a bit about whatever stock they didn't know was coming, and that Fool will do their best to state a numerical range within which the stock's market capitalization market cap falls. It is still a public company.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But I put a lot of time into those essays, and they occurred over a long narrative arc of history, 2002-2017, 15 years worth of investing lessons in Motley Fool Stock Advisor and Motley Fool Rule Breakers. That's when our stocks really go bananas. Fellow Fools, the stock market is a roller coaster, full of swoops and dives.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

Especially for our newer listeners, I would be a fool if I assumed you knew that critical lesson I taught on this podcast back in 2017 or one of my favorite stories from 2022 even. It was the top-performing stock on the S&P 500 in 2016. One of my favorite things I ever did, as a Motley Fool Stock Advisor, was in January of 2017.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The very month after the media was buzzing about Nvidia being the top performer on the S&P 500 in 2016, in January 2017, I made Nvidia my new monthly recommendation for Motley Fool Stock Advisor, so that was the third time it had been my big monthly pick. Nvidia was the S&P 500 10th top performer in 2017 up 83%.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 14, 2023

Now if that friend had been really early, really observant, that might've been as early as say 2011, when my guest this week was saying just that, or it might have been 2017 when Bitcoin started the year around a $1,000 a coin and close the year closer to $15,000. I'm thinking of so-called meme stocks. The market cap, by the way, $5.9

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2023

The S&P 500 hit 20% above its October lows, which if you're a technician there that says, hey, we're in a new bull market whether you believe that or not. I think what's fascinating about the stock market lately and it's just been a relentless rise for the market is traders will often call this a lack of breadth in the market.

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The Big Picture

JULY 2, 2024

Eva Shang : So at the time that we launched, there were already public companies that were doing litigation finance. So, so you drop outta Harvard, is that 2017? Eva Shang : We drop out of Harvard in 2016 and it takes us a full year to raise our first $10 million fund in 2017. I mean, so we raised our first fund in 2017.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

I don't put much stock in, pun intended, what they are trying to do because often I think it is more short-term focus as opposed to really long-term value creation. but this company I picked in Stock Advisor , I'm just checking it, Sept. 15th, 2017. I mean, I didn't even know there was a public company that had that name.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 19, 2024

Whole Foods was public company for 25 years. If you didn't like us, you could sell the stock, if you didn't like what we were doing. But Jeremy Siegel's book, Stocks for the Long Run. Also, Amazon, they increased the pay of virtually everyone in the company within 30 days of the merger. David Gardner: Thank you.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Stock Number 2 is a public company today whose CEO was in the one year between us in elementary school. David Gardner: You know, when we think about stock market plays on this trend that is now here and that you're here for Bill, the most obvious is probably DraftKings ticker symbol DKNG, which is not stock Number 5.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2024

Come back later this month when we'll be playing a different game that you may like as it involves the stock market and that is, of course, the market cap game show. Now, I first started doing this in 2017. I just right in the end there, stuck in a games list in that gift giving special of 2017.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In this Rule Breaker Investing podcast, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner welcomes Motley Fool favorites Emily Flippen and Mac Greer to the stage as they test their knowledge on the price tags of 10 public companies. It's market capitalization, market cap. The date was August 9th, 2017. It's full price tag.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 12, 2025

For the better part of two years, the stock market has been in an undeniable uptrend, and investors haven't had to dig too deeply to uncover the catalysts behind this decisive move higher. Despite spending more on share repurchases than any other public company, Apple's EPS has been flat over the last couple of years.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 10, 2025

Let's move on to stock Number 2. Matt Argersinger helped initiate the Market Cap Game Show, having been there with me in 2017, as we debuted the show, he is, as I mentioned earlier, the OG. David Gardner: It can be especially problematic, presumably when they're public companies now. A lot of companies have logos.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2025

Prior to the latest stock market correction, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) , benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) , and growth-fueled Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) had recently hit fresh, all-time closing highs. President Trump gesturing while giving remarks at the Justice Department. recessions.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

He did have 5% of Nvidia back in 2017 '18, he sells out in '19. Ricky Mulvey: What's interesting is he doesn't want to do that by investing in a public company that may be doing that already Nvidia. He's in big time in public sector infrastructure. Futures, derivatives. By the way, he's just also sold out on Nvidia.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 24, 2025

With me in studio are Andy Cross and Emily Flippen with their jester shaped thinking caps on to see who can out market cap the other for the grand prize. You're playing along, too, with your spouse or partner, your kids or your stock market loving mates who group around the office water cooler. Very public. It's down 20%.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 1, 2025

Following the signing of Trump's flagship Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law in December 2017, corporate buybacks for S&P 500 companies soared. The president's tariff policy has thrown Wall Street into a fit , and it's only fair to ask: Will Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" be a disaster for the stock market?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 4, 2025

stock market. Will that downward momentum crescendo into a market crash, or will stocks soar in the remaining years of his second term? History says the stock market could soar under President Trump Importantly, the president does not control the stock market or the economy. In fact, U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2025

Although there's no forecasting tool or data point that can, with 100% accuracy, predict directional moves in stocks or the broader market over short periods, there are events, predictive indicators, metrics, and personal experiences that correlate with big moves in stocks or the major indexes throughout history.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

Apple is one of Wall Street's largest businesses for a reason (and AI is part of it) Apple was the very first public company to top $3 trillion in market value, and as of this past weekend was the second-largest company, behind only Nvidia. The other prominent concern with Apple is that its stock is historically pricey.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 22, 2025

When Trump was victorious in November, investors widely expected his tax policies and focus on deregulation to carry the stock market to new heights. In other words, it's a way that public companies can make their stock appear more attractive to everyday investors. Image source: Getty Images.

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