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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Fundamentals of Financial Data, with Tom Gardner and Ayal Cusner

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Understanding the math can help you weather the storm as a stock investor. Ayal Cusner, Investing AI & Automation lead at The Motley Fool, joins CEO and co-founder Tom Gardner to talk about the data that can give you more peace of mind when the market goes sideways. In this episode they discuss:  - The math behind stock volatility  - The fundamentals of owning growth-oriented companies  - The potential long-term rewards of going on stock investing’s wild ride To learn more: How to Calculate Volatility of a Stock - https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/stocks/how-to-calculate-stock-volatility/ Understanding Portfolio Diversification - https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/portfolio-diversification/ Host: Tom Gardner Guest:  Ayal Cusner Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So they're reinvesting and there's a lot of debate about whether they're going to succeed

0:04.4

or not.

0:05.4

So their stock, like Netflix, is rising and falling dramatically.

0:08.7

Netflix up more than 500 times since coming public, but its stock fell more than 70% five

0:13.0

separate times.

0:14.0

So if you want those amazing returns, you've got to go on a wild ride.

0:20.8

I'm Chris Hill and that was Motley Fool's CEO Tom Gardner.

0:24.7

This episode of Motley Fool Money, it's all about the math in your investing journey.

0:28.8

Don't worry, you will not need a calculator.

0:32.2

I, all Kusner, heads up our investing AI and automation team.

0:36.5

And today he's joining Tom to talk about numbers, including why it's a benefit to understand

0:41.4

the math behind diversification, what the historical data can teach us all about a stock market

0:47.2

downturn, and a fundamental advantage that investors like you and me have over Wall Street

0:53.0

firms.

0:59.3

It's only natural to think that an individual investor like you would have no hope whatsoever

1:04.1

about performing professional investors.

1:07.1

They work with teams of analysts.

1:09.0

They manage billions of dollars and some of them wield automated trading platforms powered

1:13.5

by sophisticated algorithms with the capability and even legal clearance to actually step in

1:18.8

front of your trades by before you, then sell those shares to you, taking a lick off your

1:24.8

ice cream cone in the process.

1:27.0

You can't win no chance.

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