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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

118- Amazon, Whole Foods & Selling a Company You Love

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Business, Investing

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Selling stock you own with a company you love can be heartbreaking, tune in this week as we go over Danielle’s sale of her Whole Food’s stock. Join us as we discuss the payout of dividends, arbitrage, and other investing must-know terms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody this is Phil Town and this is Phil Town and this is Danielle Town and

0:08.9

we're here for the invested podcast welcome back from the 4th of July.

0:13.0

So we're running...

0:15.0

That's right.

0:16.0

Dad, you didn't give any spiel on what the invested podcast is about.

0:20.0

I really should because who knows who's jumping into this first right?

0:25.8

I just really enjoy your little like impromptu spiel every time. I kind of miss it.

0:31.6

Especially in front of this one.

0:33.2

We're talking about how to invest the way Warren Buffett

0:36.2

and Charlie Munger and I do it.

0:39.1

And we've talked to investors like Guy Spear and Maneshbibri and a whole group of people that are following,

0:46.0

Munger and Buffett into what we call Rule 1 investing.

0:50.0

And today we're going to talk about the Amazon purchase of Whole Foods and what that means in terms of how to value the business.

0:58.0

And since they bought it for a set price, and a little bit about the emotions you go through when your favorite wonderful business

1:07.0

that you're going to own the rest of your life suddenly gets snatched right out of your hands.

1:16.4

That's right, which is what happened to me. That's right. Yeah, so we talk about... Well, also what happened to you is that, you know, the upside of

1:21.6

getting a thing snatched out of your hands is often that you just made a bunch of money and I don't know how long you've owned Whole Foods, but it's I think less than a year

1:30.0

And I think you just made about 50% on it

1:34.2

I'd have to think how long. I'm not exactly sure the answer to how long, but, um, yeah, somewhere around a year probably.

1:42.3

Yeah. And, um and and I think I made 42% well I figured it out but then I in the

1:51.0

grand tradition of me I immediately forgot what I made.

1:54.4

Do you remember what you bought it for?

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