200 Stock Advisor Picks Later…

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In March of 2002, Motley Fool Stock Advisor was born. Every month, brothers Tom and David Gardner continue to recommend one stock each, to be bought for the long term. Now fully 200 months (16+ years!) later, what six conclusions does David draw from the experience? (Hint: It is indeed possible to crush the market!) In a very special podcast, we’re looking back and looking forward.

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0:00.0	200 months ago. Yes, exactly 200 months ago this month my brother Tom Gardner and I each
0:07.1	made our very first monthly stock pick for Motley Fool's stock advisor. It was March 2002. The market had been crushed over the previous
0:15.6	two years and much of our company along with it. Understandably, many doubted following
0:21.5	the dot-com crash that self-directed investing, actually picking stocks
0:26.4	and building your own portfolio sleeves rolled up with our help or anyone else's, was even a worthy pursuit.
0:35.0	Well, fools that we are, we disagreed,
0:37.3	we have always disagreed.
0:39.2	So that day in March, I picked Schwab,
0:41.6	and Tom picked Moody's, and history will show that his first pick was
0:45.2	pretty great. Up 150% of the next 10 years when he sold it in October 2012, mine was not
0:52.4	so much. I also held for 10 years, over which time Schwab stock
0:57.0	only rose 2.3 percent, with the market up 50 percent over that time, after which I disconsolately sold.
1:05.0	Well, we've repeated that same process, 199 more times.
1:12.0	I think it's one of the more remarkable, maybe outside Motley Fool
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1:21.1	told. How have we done? Well, are you a member? How have you done and what
1:27.2	can we all learn? Yep, it's 200 Stock Advisor picks later, only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing
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