2026 March Market Cap Madness Championship: Loren v. Emily

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The bracket is complete. The stakes are highest. And now… it’s time to crown a champion.This week on Rule Breaker Investing, defending champion Emily Flippen faces off against Cinderella challenger Loren Horst in the March Market Cap Madness World Championship. As always, you’re not just watching—you’re playing along. Ten companies. Ten chances to test your market cap intuition. Range it… and decide: in or out?From elevators to hotel loyalty programs to the strange ways we all think about “blood,” this one takes a few delightfully unexpected turns along the way. Throwdowns raise the stakes, instincts get tested, and you’re right there in it the whole time. Keep your own score, trust your gut, and see how you stack up. Companies mentioned: DGX, H, LYV, MAR, OTIS, PLTR, SBUX, SNOW, TRMB, TXN Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast News here: ⁠⁠⁠www.fool.com/breakfastnews⁠⁠⁠ Order David’s Rule Breaker Investing book here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/⁠⁠ Host: David GardnerGuests: Emily Flippen, Loren HorstProducer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Round one of our March Market Cap madness two weeks ago saw Cinderella upstart Lauren Hurst,
0:06.9	who's never once yet lost a Market Cap game show, unseat former world champion and
0:13.6	Motley Fool Chief Investment Officer Andy Crossed by a score of 6 to 4.
0:19.2	And then last week, Emily Flippen took on Bill Barker in a rematch of their epic
0:24.5	Bemily won semifinal a year ago.
0:28.1	Once again, Emily prevailed.
0:30.7	Such is the madness of March.
0:33.2	This week, it's for all the marbles.
0:36.4	Undefeated Cinderella, Lauren Hurst is back,
0:39.9	reigning world champion, Emily Flippen, is back.
0:43.4	And here you are.
0:44.7	You're back, too, for the March Market Cap Madness World Championships.
0:49.0	Are you ready to get your market caps on?
0:52.6	Let's get ready to rumble only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
0:58.4	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
1:06.7	And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:09.4	It's our 26 March Market Cab Madness World Championship with me in studio are Lauren Hurst and Emily Flippen with their jester-shaped thinking caps on to see who can out market cap the other for the grand prize. Lauren, Emily, and you. The third player to us, the most important, is you.
1:30.2	You're playing along, too, with your spouse or partner, your kids, or your stock market-loving
1:34.4	mates who group around the office water cooler as we get ready to crank up our Market
1:38.9	Cap game show music. Let me just briefly remind, especially our new players and listeners
1:43.4	this week, how this game works.
1:46.1	I'll be mentioning a stock. Neither Lauren 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 is coming, and that fool will do their best to state a numerical range within which the market cap, the value of that company, falls.
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