Market Cap Game Show: Throwdowns & Long-Term Wins

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.4 • 959 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to our quarterly Market Cap Game Show! This week, two past champions, Matt Argersinger and Yasser El-Shimy, face off in a battle of wits and estimates, each vying for the coveted seat in our 2025 “March Market Cap Madness” World Championships. With 10 stocks on the line and two throwdown rounds, who will come out on top? And how will you fare against our contestants? Whether it’s semiconductors, space exploration, or the future of sound systems, we’ve got an exciting lineup of companies for you to test your market cap knowledge. Can you outscore both guests?! Companies Discussed: NBIX, RKLB, AMD, SHOP, SYNA, MSFT, LOW, SONO, HEI, KFRC Host: David Gardner Guests: Matt Argersinger, Yasser El-Shimy Producer: Desirée Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The price of a stock tells you almost nothing.
0:03.2	It's the price to buy one share of the stock.
0:06.8	But how many shares does the company have outstanding?
0:09.8	In math, we multiply two multiplicans together but the price per share is only one
0:15.7	multiplicand. If you don't know the other you can't do any meaningful math or
0:20.3	figure out much of the world around you.
0:23.0	F know that you need to know the shares outstanding
0:27.0	and then multiply that by the price per share.
0:30.0	And now you know the actual full value of the company, its price tag, its market
0:35.5	capitalization, market cap. Well to teach this lesson inexorably and
0:41.0	unforgettable we invented a game. That's what I do. The date was August 9th, 2017.
0:47.4	The Marquet Cap Game Show was born. We've been playing every quarter since.
0:52.1	Oh, and you're playing too.
0:55.0	I designed it that way so you can play along
0:57.0	against my guest stars, against your spouse or partner,
1:00.8	against your kids.
1:02.2	Can you outscore my talented contestants? It's that
1:05.5	time at the quarter again, 10 new stocks, three guest stars, Matt Argus singer,
1:10.1	Yasur al-Shimi, and you only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:15.4	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
1:26.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:28.0	This is the Market Cap Game Show.
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