MarketFoolery: 08.22.2013

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🗓️ 22 August 2013

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Hidden Gems advisor Seth Jayson discusses his approach to small-cap investing, why he keeps some stocks on a tight leash while letting others grow to become large caps, and why “brand” can be a powerful asset for some companies.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, August 22nd.
0:04.5	Welcome to Market Foolery.
0:05.7	I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today for Motley Full Hidden Gems.
0:09.0	Seth Jason, good to see you, my friend.
0:11.5	It's been a long time since I rocked and rolled on one of these microphones.
0:16.8	We are wrapping up Strategy Week.
0:19.4	Strategic.
0:20.4	I prefer to call it Strategic.
0:21.6	Strategic Week.
0:23.0	I thought it would be great to talk small cap investing
0:26.0	because that's what you do at Motley Fool Hidden Gems.
0:29.0	And nobody likes those.
0:31.0	No, except for us. Except for us.
0:33.0	Except for you guys.
0:35.6	This is maybe not the best way to start, but I will start here.
0:39.3	Technical question.
0:40.2	What defines a small cap?
0:42.0	Because it seems like there's a sliding scale but is it we're talking about market cap here is it a minimum of 500 million up to 2 billion where we need to give a bit of the Bill Clinton answer.
0:53.0	It depends on what you mean by is.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	It's depends on what you mean by small.
0:57.6	We tend to define it a hidden gem somewhere between about $250 million
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