Market Cap Game Show: In The Moment

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Small-cap, mid-cap, large-cap, mega-cap...? How do these companies compare? It's not enough to know the share price; you have to know the market cap! And that's why we play the game—now with the new “Throwdown Rule.” Play along with our guests, Andy Cross and Matt Argersinger to claim your fame as the market cap masters of 2022!

Stocks Mentioned: NCNO, SJM, ULTA, HCA, LKQ, ZS, MTCH, SQ, STEM, CRI

Host: David Gardner
Guests: Andy Cross, Matt Argersinger
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	The price to buy one share of the stock tells you almost nothing.
0:03.7	It's the price to buy one share of the stock.
0:06.3	But how many shares does the company have outstanding?
0:09.5	Well, in math, we multiply two multiple cans together, but the price per share is only one
0:15.0	multiply can if you don't know the other one well you can't do any meaningful math
0:19.3	or figure out much of the world around you. F, know that you need to know the shares outstanding
0:26.0	and then multiply that by the price per share.
0:30.0	And now you know the actual full value of the company.
0:33.7	It's full price tag, it's market capitalization, market cap.
0:38.8	Well, to teach this lesson inexorably and unforgettablely, we invented a game.
0:46.4	That's what we do.
0:47.8	The date was August 9th, 2017.
0:50.9	The Market Cap Game Show was born, and we've been playing it every quarter since and we'll be rejoined this particular episode by the man who was there at the start.
1:01.0	spoiler alert. Oh, by the the way you're playing too. I designed it that way
1:06.1	so you dear listener can play along against my guest stars against your
1:10.3	spouse or partner against your kids.
1:14.2	Well it's that time of the quarter again, 10 new stocks,
1:17.4	three guest stars, Andy Cross,
1:19.7	Matt Argusinger, and you, only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:25.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
1:32.0	Welcome. co-founder David Gardner. Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:37.0	Yeah, yeah, I know, Holidays, Busy Week, Busy Wednesday, I hear you.
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