Market Cap Game Show: Planes, Steaks & Automobiles

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to our quarterly Market Cap Game Show! Two past champions—Andy Cross and Yasser El-Shimy—take the stage to test their market-cap mettle (and yours) across ten public companies, vying for a spot in the 2026 March Market Cap Madness World Championships. From tech titans and international hotel brands to down home Texas fare and online car shopping, the matchups run from familiar to delightfully unexpected—plus plenty of banter. Can you outscore Andy, Yasser, 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!). Companies mentioned: ASR, CARG, CEG, CME, GOOG, LKQ, MAR, NXPI, PGR, TXRH Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast News here: ⁠www.fool.com/breakfastnews⁠ Order David’s Rule Breaker Investing book here: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Host: David Gardner Guests: Andy Cross, Yasser El-Shimy Producers: Bart Shannon, Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The price per share of a stock tells you almost nothing.
0:04.0	It's one number.
0:05.6	But how many shares exist?
0:08.3	In math, you multiply two factors.
0:11.1	Price times shares outstanding.
0:14.0	Without the second, you can't do meaningful math or understand much of the market.
0:19.0	Fools with a capital F know that price times shares equals market capitalization, a company's
0:25.8	actual price tag.
0:27.2	And to make that lesson stick, we invented a game.
0:30.7	On August 9th, 2017, the Market Cap Game Show was born, and we've played it every quarter
0:36.6	since.
0:37.1	And you're playing too.
0:39.1	Against my guest stars, your spouse, your kids.
0:43.0	Can you outscore my talented contestants?
0:46.2	It's that time again.
0:47.7	Ten new stocks, three guest stars, past world champion Andy Cross, past champion Yasser al-Shimi, and you. Only on this week's
0:57.0	Rule Breaker Investing. It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
1:08.4	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. This is the Market Cap game show. Welcome to all my players
1:15.5	everywhere, whether you're a regular listener who's been enjoying this game for 33 quarters in a row now,
1:22.4	that's more than eight years. Or you just read my book, Rule Breaker Investing This Week. You checked out the book's website.
1:28.9	That's rulebreakerinvesting.com and then discovered, oh my gosh, the guy has a podcast by the same name.
1:35.3	And now you find we're playing a game show this week? Well, as I mentioned, this week's guest stars are Andy Cross,
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