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Rule Breaker Investing

Stock Stories, Vol. 9: You Have More Than You Think

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing, Invest, Rulebreaker, Stocks, Company, Growth, Stockmarket, Fool, Foolish

4.5 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Every stock tells a story. This week on Rule Breaker Investing, we gather around the campfire for the ninth time to share our best stock stories. From Meta Platforms’s long arc of growth to Warner Bros. Discovery’s debt-ridden saga, these stories aren’t just tales of companies; they are lessons for life and investing. David and his Motley Fool friends—Dave Meier, Mary Long, Nathan Alderman, and Tracy Dahl—recount their most memorable stock experiences.  Join us at the campfire!

  • (3:17) The Long Arc
  • (11:52) Catching Flies with Honey
  • (22:22) David and Goliath but Not the Way You Think
  • (36:46) You Have More Than You Think
  • (46:28) That’s the Last Time I’m Ever Going to Do That

Companies Mentioned:

BMBL, BRK, META, WBD, YHOO

 

Host: David Gardner

Guests: Dave Meier, Mary Long, Nathan Alderman, Tracy Dahl

Producer: Desirée Jones

Transcript

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0:00.0

Some people like superhero stories and these days back in theaters after the

0:05.1

pandemic will spend I don't know about a billion dollars at a box office to see a

0:09.9

movie over a single weekend? Others like sad stories. We can all think of a

0:16.0

favorite bedtime story. It's often said of us human beings that we are a

0:20.2

storytelling race. The call of the story, the prehistoric campfire where stories were

0:25.6

acted out. Huge industries today have been built up just around celebrity stories. Stories.

0:33.0

Or how about Sports, the News,

0:35.0

Scores, results, the stories we remember from our own athletic exploits,

0:40.0

however scanty they may be, my case stories stories stock stories yep every stock tells a story

0:50.3

As investors we get to know our company's mission, maybe another marketing tagline. That's a story.

0:57.2

We followed the share price. We experienced highs and lows, sometimes dizzying highs, or cavernous lows sometimes both. Our

1:06.2

experience as investors gives us the long view, the capital F foolish view

1:11.3

equates us with great prosperity-creating stories.

1:15.7

Especially, look across a portfolio.

1:18.6

Look up and down your brokerage statement.

1:21.5

And I bet you see some stories.

1:25.0

For the ninth time in this podcast's history, this week we focus on telling stories.

1:30.0

We're a stock market podcast, so these are stock stories.

1:34.4

Visiting me around the campfire this week are several talented

1:37.0

motley pool contributors, each of whom has a story to tell.

1:40.6

Five stock stories to make you smarter, happier, and richer only on this week's Rule

1:46.5

Breaker Investing.

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