The Best Investment in 2025 (So Far...) Isn’t What You Think

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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We’re racing to the end of 2025 and a year where AI and tariffs have dominated the headlines, gold has been the best investment so far. The team looks at why gold is rising, Figma’s sharp post-earnings decline, and crack open three IPO prospectuses to put on investors radar Tyler Crowe, Matt Frankel, and Jon Quast discuss: - Gold outperforming the S&P 500 and crypto in 2025 - The gold mining stock at the top of the best performer list - Figma’s earnings - IPOs on deck worth an extra look Companies discussed: NEM, PLTR, STX, FIG, XYZ, SOFI, GEMI, BRCR, FIGR, BROS Host: Tyler Crowe Guests: Matt Frankel, Jon Quast Engineer: Dan Boyd Disclosure: Advertisements are sponsored content and provided for informational purposes only. The Motley Fool and its affiliates (collectively, “TMF”) do not endorse, recommend, or verify the accuracy or completeness of the statements made within advertisements. TMF is not involved in the offer, sale, or solicitation of any securities advertised herein and makes no representations regarding the suitability, or risks associated with any investment opportunity presented. Investors should conduct their own due diligence and consult with legal, tax, and financial advisors before making any investment decisions. TMF assumes no responsibility for any losses or damages arising from this advertisement. We’re committed to transparency: All personal opinions in advertisements from Fools are their own. The product advertised in this episode was loaned to TMF and was returned after a test period or the product advertised in this episode was purchased by TMF. Advertiser has paid for the sponsorship of this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ⁠⁠megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The best investment in 2025 so far and a dive into upcoming IPOs.
0:09.9	This is Motley Fool Money.
0:20.7	Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm Tyler Crowe, joined by longtime Fool contributors Matt Frankel and John
0:25.8	Quast. Today, we're going to dig into some pre-IPO filings because it's going to be a busy week next week.
0:31.4	And some of the companies are there actually ones that we like. We're going to continue the discussion
0:35.8	about Figma from yesterday's show after
0:38.4	their post-earnings report drop that happened today. But before we get to all that, we're surprisingly
0:44.9	close to the fourth quarter. I mean, Matt, you and I, we're sending kids to school. John,
0:50.5	I don't know if you're sending your kids to schools yet, but that kind of gets you in a little bit
0:54.0	of, wow, the end of the year is coming up quick here. And so we're going to do a way too early
0:59.3	look back at the best investments in 2025 so far, because it's been a wild ride for the markets.
1:06.1	I mean, the S&P 500 was down almost 14% at one point in April. I think it was Liberation Day tariffs and all that other stuff that really sent the market rocking.
1:16.1	But as of this taping, it's up just under 10% year-to-date and is on pace for a better-than-average year for the S&P 500.
1:24.7	Surprisingly, one of the best-performing assets isn't, you know, Mag 7 or anything
1:30.1	like that.
1:30.5	It's gold.
1:31.7	And frankly, it's not even close.
1:33.9	John, you kind of showed us some of the numbers before we got started here.
1:37.0	It's, it'll be a hard ask for the S&P 500 to catch up to gold.
1:43.0	Yeah.
1:43.6	I mean, as you brought up, Tyler, the S&P 500 up about 10% year to date.
1:48.4	That's a good year.
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