How To Spot A Potential Buyout

Rule Breaker Investing

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Business, Investing, Invest, Rulebreaker, Stocks, Company, Growth, Stockmarket, Fool, Foolish

4.5 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Today David looks at 4 potential buyout scenarios, and names 3 stocks in each that—for better or worse—look ripe for the picking. While it's fun to see stocks pop at the news of a buyout, in most cases we'd rather see our businesses continue as independent, pure-play investments.

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0:00.0	This episode of Rule Breaker Investing is brought to you by Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans.
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0:17.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
0:25.0	And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
0:29.0	I'm David Gardner.
0:30.0	Very pleased to have you with me.
0:32.0	This is the, I don't know why I keep track of these deaths. This is the 47th
0:35.6	weekly podcast that we've brought you. That means we're coming up on 52 sometime
0:40.2	in late June. It's been a really wonderful year almost together and today I've
0:46.7	got a really fun topic. It's buyouts. I pressage this last week talked about
0:51.8	how I wanted to talk about buyouts. Before I do I want to
0:54.4	mention a fun event in Alexandria Virginia where the Motley Fool is based and
0:58.3	that is our annual Fool Fest conference so we are inviting members from our services in and they come
1:06.0	usually 700 or more it seems sometimes from around the world and to meet with
1:12.2	other fools.
1:13.0	That's something that you need to be a member of one of our services,
1:16.0	generally are probably our higher end services,
1:18.0	to get an invitation, and I know some of you listening to me right now
1:22.0	are probably flying toward Alexandria and others are wondering how can I do that and the answer is maybe join something like Supernova which is open this month probably the last time it'll be open in 2016 but so Foolfest I'll maybe I'll have a story or two
1:34.8	coming out of it next week and by the way next week is mailbag on this podcast so
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