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Rule Breaker Investing

Market Cap Game Show: “Boring Stocks… Eh?!”

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

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

4.5928 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The penultimate Wednesday of every quarter… it’s time again for the Market Cap Game Show! This time around, longtime Fool Jason Moser and podcast debutant Loren Horst step into the ring to guess (and second-guess) the value of some amazing (some of them amazingly boring) stocks. As always, you’re invited to play along at home: Can you beat our talented Foolish guest stars? Companies Discussed: SFIX, ISRG, U, TXNM, ODFL, JPM, FIX, TDG, TREX, DIS Host: David Gardner Guests: Jason Moser, Loren Horst Producer: Bart Shannon Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the year 2000.

0:02.0

Everyone, everywhere is having fun, except me.

0:06.0

On BBC Eye Player.

0:08.0

I worry you're growing up too fast.

0:10.0

Yeah, we can't be your little duck here forever, can I?

0:13.0

Inspired by a true story.

0:15.0

You walk out this house a boy, one day you'll come back.

0:17.0

When you do, you will be a man.

0:20.0

Oh, and hold your breath. What it feels like

0:22.4

for a girl. I wish I could look like you. Bebe, you can. Why don't you? Watch on BBC IPlayer.

0:29.9

The price per share of a stock tells you almost nothing. It's the price to buy one share of the stock.

0:35.9

But how many shares does the company have outstanding?

0:39.1

Well, in math, we multiply two multiplicans together, but the price per share is only one

0:45.3

multiplicand. If you don't know the other, you can't do any meaningful math or figure out much

0:51.3

of the world around you. Well, fools with a capital F know that you need to know the share's outstanding,

0:56.8

and then multiply that by the price per share,

0:59.4

and now you know the actual full value of the company.

1:03.3

It's full price tag.

1:04.7

It's market capitalization market cap.

1:08.5

Well, to teach this lesson inexorably and unforgett unforgettable, we invented a game. That's what I do.

1:15.4

The date was August 9th, 2017. The Market Cap Game Show was born, and we've been playing every

1:21.2

quarter since. Oh, and you're playing too. I designed it that way so you can play along against my

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