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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

An Investor’s Guide to 2026

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What does the new year bring to investors? We discussed the AI trade, how the economy is faring, and why commodities may not be place to look for opportunities today. Travis Hoium, Emily Flippen, and Lou Whiteman discuss: - The AI trade- How the economy is doing- What stocks will go up and down- Stocks on our radar Companies discussed: NVIDIA (NVDA), Target (TGT), Chipotle (CMG), Intel (INTC), Lululemon (LULU), Nike (KNE), Tesla (TSLA), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Palantir (PLTR), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Airbnb (ABNB), Honeywell (HON), Novonordisk (NOVO). Host: Travis HoiumGuests: Emily Flippen, Lou WhitemanEngineer: Bart Shannon Advertisements are sponsored content and provided for informational purposes only. The Motley Fool and its affiliates (collectively, “TMF”) do not endorse, recommend, or verify the accuracy or completeness of the statements made within advertisements. TMF is not involved in the offer, sale, or solicitation of any securities advertised herein and makes no representations regarding the suitability, or risks associated with any investment opportunity presented. Investors should conduct their own due diligence and consult with legal, tax, and financial advisors before making any investment decisions. TMF assumes no responsibility for any losses or damages arising from this advertisement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The calendar is flipped to 2026.

0:07.0

So where are we investing?

0:09.0

Motley Full Money starts now.

0:15.0

Welcome to Motley Full Money. I'm Travis Hoym., joined by Lou Whiteman and Emily Flippin.

0:24.6

And since the calendar has now moved to 2026, we're recording this a couple of days early so that we can have a little bit of time later in the week.

0:32.3

But we are thinking a lot about how we're investing in 2026, what the economy looks like, where there's

0:37.7

value, maybe where we should be selling a little bit. So I wanted to start with a couple of

0:41.9

different themes and the biggest thing that we have to talk about. This has been the topic of

0:45.2

the market for the last three years. That's artificial intelligence. Where are you looking

0:50.9

at the AI trade in 2026, Lou?

0:54.7

And you can take this in any number of different directions.

0:57.1

Is there risk?

0:57.8

Is there opportunity?

0:59.6

Or is this just something that you're monitoring from the sidelines and going, you know what?

1:04.0

This is accounting for 50% of GDP growth.

1:07.3

That's a pretty notable change in the way that we think about AI. The first thing is it's 2026 and wow, we're still doing this instead of AI. So cheers to us for that, right? The disruption has not hit us yet. Yeah, yeah, not yet. Famous last words. So you know what strikes me about AI? And I've been thinking about this a lot is that, you know, the novelty is over. The magic is gone. When ChatGPT first came on the scene and it was wow,

1:31.7

it was magic. And it was all this talk about virtual friends, you know, doing all these chores for us.

1:37.3

And, you know, just kind of what was new and magic before is now sort of mundane. And I think

1:43.7

the answer from here is kind of boring.

1:46.1

I think this is going to be the year of the agents of all of this stuff. Wasn't 2025 supposed to be

1:53.4

the year of agents? Well, it was and maybe that was the work. But here's what I think is happening

1:57.5

here. Again, it's not going to be the cool magical stuff. They're not going to be planning our vacations or doing these wow tasks, but there is just all

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