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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

"Days like yesterday are a gift."

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Down days in the market aren't fun, but they may also be great days to buy stocks. (0:21) Jim Gillies discusses: - Why his rule is to never buy stocks on a day the market is up - The types of companies he's been buying shares of lately - Takeaways from Starbucks' investor day event (16:24) Ollen Douglass, managing partner of Motley Fool Ventures, talks with Jenny Abramson, founder and managing partner of Rethink Impact, in front of a live audience about investing in private companies and what she looks for company leaders.  Stocks mentioned: SBUX Host: Chris Hill Guests: Jason Moser, Marc Rapport, Joseph Ori Engineers: Dan Boyd, Spencer Daniel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

We've got a closer look at Starbucks investor day and a closer look at the world adventure

0:09.9

capital.

0:10.9

Motley Full Money starts now.

0:14.8

I'm Chris Hill joining me today, Motley Full Senior Analyst, Jim Gillies.

0:24.8

Thanks for being here.

0:25.8

Thanks for inviting me, Chris.

0:28.1

Let's go back in time, shall we?

0:31.0

Always a good time.

0:32.0

If we go back in time 24 hours, it's pretty awful because Tuesday ended up being one

0:38.5

of those days where the financial news bleeds into the mainstream news because the Dow dropped

0:45.6

over a thousand points or whatever the total ended up being.

0:49.4

But I wanted to talk with you about something that Austin Sharmer and I started to touch

0:55.3

on yesterday, which is this thing that, and maybe I'm showing my age here, but the thought

1:02.7

that I have when days like yesterday happen is I feel like I'm getting a second chance

1:09.2

as an investor because if you invest for long enough, it's easy to daydream about going

1:17.0

back in time and saying, oh, if only I had bought this stock 10 years ago, 20 years ago,

1:22.1

whenever, you know, when it fell because now with the benefit of hindsight, I can see

1:26.8

that was the time to buy.

1:28.9

And I'll be honest, Jim, I'm not doing that type of daydreaming.

1:33.6

I'm doing more of the generic kind, which is to say, I think back to the Great Recession

1:39.8

2008, 2009, and I think, boy, that really was the time to just be buying in general.

1:47.3

Even if you were just buying the index, the S&P 500 index, the QQQ.

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