5 Stocks that Pass the Snap Test

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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If you could snap your fingers and make a company disappear, who would notice? Who would care? It may seem a simplistic question, but the answer could flag the difference between a Rule Breaker and just another also-ran. Today David picks 5 stocks that pass the test and look oh so promising for the next 3+ years.

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0:00.0	What if you had the power to snap your fingers and make any public company disappear?
0:09.0	For instance, Dunkin' Donuts. It's gone. Or maybe for a lot of us, Altria, purveyors of tobacco, gone. Or even more consequentially, what about Amazon.com? Don't do it. Gone.
0:33.0	This week on Rule Breaker Investing, I'm going to pick five stocks that pass the snap test for me.
0:40.0	The snap test asks you as an investor for any company you or I are looking at if we snapped our fingers and it disappeared, would anyone notice would anyone care?
0:53.0	And companies that pass the snap test, I feel like almost everyone would notice and lots of people would care.
1:01.0	It's one of the surest signs that I've found to pick winning stocks.
1:05.0	We've got a five stock sampler this week, five stocks that pass my snap test only on Rule
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