The Market Cap Game Show: A Battle of Wits

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes you know the market cap, sometimes you're just guessing. And sometimes you're gaming the game! Just remember, "never get involved in a land war in Asia," and "never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"

Companies Discussed: BABA, BOC, CAVA, CME, CMG, FCX, MKTX, SG, SGEN, STZ, TASK, TSLA, WMT

Host: David Gardner
Guests: Jim Mueller, Bill Mann
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	The price of a stock tells you almost nothing.
0:04.0	It's the price to buy one share of the stock,
0:07.0	but how many shares does the company have outstanding?
0:10.0	Well in math, we multiply to multiplicans together.
0:13.5	Remember that word from fifth grade?
0:14.9	But the price per share, well that's just one multiplicand.
0:18.5	If you don't know the other one,
0:19.8	you can't do any meaningful math
0:21.6	or figure out much of the world around you.
0:24.0	F. Know that you need to know the shares outstanding and then multiply that by the
0:29.9	price per share and now you know the actual full value of the company. It's
0:34.1	full price tag, it's market capitalization market cap. Well to teach this
0:40.1	lesson inexorably and unforgettable
0:42.8	we invented a game.
0:44.2	That's what I do.
0:45.3	The date was August 9th, 2017, the market cap game show was born.
0:49.8	We've been playing every quarter since.
0:51.8	Oh, and you're playing too. I designed it that way, so you can... been playing
0:52.5	too. I designed it that way so you can play along against my guest stars,
0:57.7	against your spouse or partner against your kids.
1:00.9	Can you outscore my talented contestants this week well it's that time of
1:06.0	the quarter again ten new stocks three guest stars bill man Jim Mueller and
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