2026 March Market Cap Madness: Emily vs. Bill (BEMILY 2!)

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.4 • 959 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The Madness continues! This week on Rule Breaker Investing, the second semifinal of March Market Cap Madness tips off as defending world champion Emily Flippen faces long-time Motley Fool advisor Bill Barker for a place in the championship round. It is a rematch of the epic Final Four game they played this very week one year ago. As always, the real game is for you: ten companies, ten market-cap ranges, and one simple question each round: Inside or outside? Play along and keep score as you listen—and see if your intuition can meet or beat our two veteran Foolish analysts. Companies mentioned: ABNB, ACM, ADYEY, GRAB, MIELY, MSCI, PAYC, SKYT, TDG, WIX Host: David GardnerContestants: Bill Barker, Emily FlippenProducer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last week, our March Market Cap Madness Final Four kicked off with a spirited competition
0:05.3	between Motley Fool Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross and Cinderella upstart Lauren Hurst.
0:12.2	That gave us our first World Championship finalist.
0:16.0	This week, we'll name our second.
0:18.8	Longtime Fool and now Survivor TV star Emily Flippen, who is our
0:23.4	standing Market Cap Game Show World Champion, will take on Bill Barker, the fellow fool who
0:30.2	battled it out with her last year this very same week in our Final Four. Bill and Emily played
0:36.9	one of the great Market Cap game shows of all time,
0:39.7	deep into overtime in a classic match that I think now deserves the name, Bemily One. This week,
0:47.8	it's Bemily 2 and you. Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
0:55.5	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
1:04.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:06.2	And welcome to March Market Cap Madness.
1:09.9	This is not just another Market Cap game show. This is our final four.
1:15.0	Our reigning world champion. Our longtime writer, asset manager, season player of this Market Cap game show who rarely loses.
1:24.2	And this week, only one of these two moves on to the championship round.
1:29.3	Emily Flippin, Bill Barker, welcome to the semifinals.
1:32.7	Hey, great to be here.
1:34.1	Thanks, Dave.
1:34.7	Good to be back.
1:35.6	And of course, the most important competitor is you, because you're playing right along with us.
1:41.0	Maybe you, dear listener, will emerge as our world champion this month,
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