Market Cap Game Show: Our First-Ever Twin Bill

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The first of the new season, this week’s Market Cap Game Show features an epic showdown between two Bills full of humor, precision(!), wild guesses, and a miss by the thinnest of margins. (Ever!) Can you outscore one… or both… Bills?

Companies Discussed: QCOM, CHWY, SNBR, CAVA, MANH, IT, VZ, TGTX, QRVO, TMDX

Host: David Gardner
Guests: Bill Barker, Bill Mann
Producer: Desiree Jones

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0:00.0	The price of a stock tells you almost nothing.
0:05.0	It's the price to buy one share of the stock.
0:08.0	But how many shares does the company have outstanding?
0:11.0	In math, we multiply two multiplicans together, but the price per share is only one multiplicand.
0:18.6	If you don't know the other, you can't do any meaningful math or figure out much of the world around you.
0:24.8	F. know that you need to know the shares outstanding and then multiply that.
0:30.4	Buy the price per share and now you know the actual full value of the company, its price tag, its market capitalization, market cap.
0:41.0	Well to teach this lesson inexorably and unforgettable we invented a game.
0:46.1	That's what I do.
0:47.1	The date was August 9th, 2017.
0:50.2	The Market Cap game show was born, and we've been playing every quarter since.
0:54.1	Oh, and you're playing too.
0:56.2	I designed it that way so you can play along against my guest stars,
1:00.0	against your spouse or partner, against your kids.
1:02.8	Can you outscore my talented contestants?
1:06.2	It's that time of the quarter, again, 10 new stocks,
1:09.1	three guest stars, Bill Barker, Bill Mann, and you. Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:17.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full co-founder David Gardner.
1:23.3	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:28.3	This is the Market Cap Game Show and our first one following
1:32.1	our first ever world championships completed during
1:35.7	this year's March Madness March Market Cap Madness and in fact we have as one of
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