Market Cap Game Show: Smack Talk

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

A company with a $50 price per share might have a million shares outstanding or a billion shares outstanding. And unless you know both numbers, you don't know the price tag of the stock you're about to buy. It's market cap time once again, and we're here to have some fun talking about the true value of companies that the Motley Fool recommends.

Companies Discussed: VRNS, CLNE, NFLX, DPZ, ALGN, DHR, SHOP, RGEN, BR, INTU

Host: David Gardner
Guests: Bill Barker, Yasser El-Shimy
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	The price of a stock tells you almost nothing.
0:04.0	It's the price to buy one share of the stock, but how many shares does the company have outstanding?
0:09.8	You know, in math we multiply two multiplicans together but the price per share is only one multiplicand.
0:17.3	If you don't know the other you can't do any meaningful math or figure out much of the world
0:21.9	around you.
0:23.0	F know that you need to know the shares outstanding and then multiply that by the price
0:30.0	per share and now you know the actual full value of the company it's full price tag
0:35.4	it's market capitalization market cap well to teach this lesson inexorably and
0:41.9	unforgettable we invented a game that's what I teach this lesson inexorably and unforgettable
0:42.8	we invented a game that's what I do the date was August 9th 2017 the market cap
0:48.7	game show was born and we've been playing every quarter since. Oh, and you're playing too. I designed it that way so you can play along against my guest stars,
0:58.6	against your spouse or partner, against your kids. Can you outscore my talented contestants?
1:05.0	Well, it's that time of the quarter, again, 10 new stocks and three guest stars.
1:11.0	Bill Barker, past champion Yasur al-Shimi, and you.
1:17.0	Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:20.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
1:27.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:31.0	This is the market cap game show. It's our holiday
1:33.2	full Stravaganza. It's the same game show you've got to know for 26 quarters in a
1:39.4	row now and yet it's a full Stravagana, right? Because it's the holidays.
1:44.8	As I said last week, put some logs on the fire, invite the in-laws over,
1:48.0	don't worry about your holiday shopping for one solid hour.
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