What The Top 3 Stocks of 2015 Have In Common

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Investing is about looking forward, not back, but we can always learn by examining our winners. Last year’s top 3 stocks in the S&P 500 were Netflix, Amazon, and Activision Blizzard. Today we explore what they have in common, and what they teach us about finding tomorrow’s winners. Also, we want to know your FANG score! Add it up on today’s RBI Podcast.

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0:00.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
0:07.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. I'm David Gardner.
0:12.0	So pleased to have you joining with me this week.
0:14.8	Thanks a lot for lending us your attention for 20 minutes or so. That's my goal each week.
0:19.6	About 20 minutes of some foolish thought about investing and particularly the rule
0:24.4	breaker style of investing which has been illustrated many times on this
0:27.3	podcast since we debuted back in oh it was July of 2015 so we're not even to our first year anniversary but for anybody
0:35.2	who's new and we have a lot of new listeners this week I'll mention why in a sec for
0:39.2	anybody who's new you can go back to the first several podcasts, shorter form, 10 minutes or so, laying out
0:46.6	our approach and strategy, the six traits we're looking for in companies as we pick rule
0:51.7	breakers. We invest in many companies besides the pure rule breakers in fact a lot of what
0:57.2	I talk about many of the companies that I've talked about over the course of the
1:00.4	last oh 37-40 podcasts or so there's a motley array of companies.
1:06.4	So by no means is the rule breaker approach, the only approach to take to investing,
1:10.3	nor is it the only approach I use and I hope you use to investing, but it's a compelling
1:15.4	way to think about the markets, and I hope it's been helpful for you.
1:19.1	Now why are there some new listeners this week?
1:21.1	Well, I had an opportunity to go on a wonderful talk radio
1:24.4	show last week a very popular one and I know a lot of you might be listening to
1:29.2	this one for the first time because it was on WFAN and Mike Francesa, the long time Sports Talk Radio
1:36.0	Show host in New York City. I had a really fun half hour last week with Mike
1:40.0	talking about sports and investing and I trust we have some new New York City
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