Market Cap Game Show: An Un-Carrier, an Un-Company & an Un-Tripled Stock

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🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The Market Cap Game Show returns! David welcomes Motley Fool favorites Emily Flippen and Mac Greer to the stage as they test their knowledge—and yours—on the true price tags of 10 public companies. From semiconductor giants to convenience store champions, from cutting-edge cybersecurity firms to energy drink dynamos, the competitors tackle stocks both familiar and surprising.

Will you outscore Emily, Mac, or both? Play along, challenge your market cap intuition, and discover the surprising values of companies you know and love (and maybe a few you’ve never heard of).

Host: David Gardner

Guests: Emily Flippen, Mac Greer

Producer: Desirée Jones

Companies Mentioned: ABNB, CASY, CELH, DAVA, LRCX, MANH, MTN, PANW, SFIX, TMUS

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0:00.0	The price per share of a stock tells you almost nothing. It's the price to buy one share of the stock, but how many shares does the company have outstanding?
0:09.0	In math, we multiply two multiplicans together, but the price per share is only one multiplicand. If you don't know the other one, you can't do any meaningful math or figure out much of the world around
0:21.5	you. Well, fools with the capital F know that you need to know the share's outstanding and then
0:26.9	multiply that by the price per share and now you know the actual full value of the company. It's full
0:33.5	price tag. It's market capitalization, market cap. Well, to teach this lesson inexorably and
0:39.7	unforgettable, we invented a game. That's what I do. The date was August 9th, 2017. The Market Cap game
0:47.1	show was born, and we've been playing every quarter since. Oh, and you're playing too. I
0:53.5	designed it that way, so you can play along against
0:55.9	my guest stars, against your spouse or partner, against your kids. Can you outscore my talented
1:03.3	contestants this week? It's that time of the quarter again. 10 new stocks, three guest stars,
1:09.2	Emily Flippen, Matt Greer, and you only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:17.4	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
1:25.4	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. A delight to have you with us. The penultimate Wednesday of every quarter is dedicated to the Market Cap game show, and so yes, we, you are about to play a game. The game is all about estimating the value of companies, the market cap, the market's price tag on each company. Retail shopping
1:45.8	experiences all feature prominently displayed price tags as you walk down the aisles of a grocery
1:51.1	store or at your local best buy, but many investors don't know the real price tags of the
1:56.3	stocks that are available on the shelves of the stock market. They think it's the price per share.
2:01.6	It's not.
2:02.4	As I said at the top, it's that price per share times the number of shares.
2:06.0	That gives you the real price tag of the company, the market cap.
2:09.0	So yeah, this is a quiz show around the market caps of some of our favorite stock.
2:13.3	I welcome on two favorite investors of mine who compete head-to-head.
2:16.9	Speaking of which, Matt Greer is a producer with The Motley Fool.
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