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David Gardner, What Rule Breakers Value

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Business, Investing

4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

If you want to own best-in-class companies, you need to own stocks with a high sticker price. Motley Fool Co-founder and Chief Rule Breaker, David Gardner, joined Ricky Mulvey for a conversation about how he thinks about valuation. They discuss: - Palantir’s current valuation, and what investors should prepare for. - The value of paying up for “top dogs” and holding on to them for long periods of time. - Tesla’s surprising performance over the past year. Companies discussed: PLTR, MELI, TSLA, SHOP, NFLX, AMZN, NVDA, AXON, ISRG Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: David Gardner Engineer: Rick Engdah 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.l Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The rule breakers that become rule makers and yet continue to break the rules as they lead their industry and the

0:41.3

world forward are the greatest stocks of our of our lifetimes and i would say amazon is a great

0:46.6

example i would say nvidia is another great example i would say so is netflix so by the way

0:51.4

are lesser known companies like axon Enterprise or Mercado Libre.

0:57.3

These are companies that started out with David positioning and are now within their contexts,

1:04.2

the Goliath. I'm Ricky Mulvey, and that's Motley Full co-founder and Chief Rulebreaker David Gardner.

1:22.0

He joined me for a conversation on today's show about his unique view on valuation,

1:26.5

and what really matters if you

1:28.4

want to be an owner of industry leading rule breaking companies. And a quick note before we get

1:33.1

started, no show on Monday. We are off for Memorial Day. Hope you're having a great long weekend.

1:50.0

So the reason I wanted to chat is, David, I've been thinking a lot about and not buying,

1:52.4

maybe to my detriment, a company called Palantir.

2:03.9

And at the time of this writing, it's got a blistering valuation, about 95 times enterprise value to revenue. So for listeners, that is all of the equity in debt over the trailing revenue. So the market for this company is saying,

2:09.1

we think that revenue can grow a lot. We can almost to impossible standards to a normal

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