CG: Investing in Videogames and Toys
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Over the last several years, nerdculture and pop culture have become one and the same, with Avengers movies and Game of Thrones dominating the conversation. As this interest has grown, businesses have moved to satisfy audience demand for products associated with pop culture. On today’s episode, Motley Fool Analyst Jim Gillies and Contributor Dan Kline join the show to break down two companies operating in the space: Gamestop and Funko.
Stay tuned to the end to hear us discuss our favorite video games of all time!
Stocks Mentioned: GME, FNKO, BKS
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| 0:19.7 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:26.5 | Today is Tuesday and we're talking about GameStop and Funko, so video games and toys. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm your host Nick Saipel and today I'm joined in studio by |
| 0:36.6 | lead advisor for Molly Full Pro Canada, Jim Gillies. So excited to have you guys on today. |
| 0:40.3 | How's it going? |
| 0:41.3 | So this is a weird one. We were talking to Jim earlier today just to get some |
| 0:45.6 | background and effectively we were doing a show in a conference room so we invited Jim on. |
| 0:50.8 | Jim it was very nice to meet you, glad to have you here. |
| 0:53.7 | Good to make your acquaintance finally. |
| 0:55.1 | I've seen your writing a lot, Daniel. |
| 0:57.3 | Appreciate that. |
| 0:58.3 | Yeah, it's kind of one weird thing and led to another, and we're going to talk about |
| 1:02.2 | one of the more interesting names in my universe at least. |
| 1:04.8 | And we're going to argue about it a little. |
| 1:06.8 | Yeah. Yeah. Game Stop. We did GameStop off the top. The back half of the show |
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