The Motley Fool?

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  1. A55

    A55 Well-Known Member

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    Who reads this? Screenshot_20200629-073108.png
     
  2. B Russ

    B Russ Well-Known Member

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    Good overall source.
     
  3. A55

    A55 Well-Known Member

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    I like that The
     
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    The Fool points out the obvious.
     
  5. B Russ

    B Russ Well-Known Member

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    The fool, i guess has many writers and many analysts like anyone, i would imagine...

    but i remember them most for understanding the value on NFLX and BWLD (no longer a ticker) but was a winner, sold to ROARK, for either $150 or $157 a share, me thinks?

    NFLX....needs no introduction. The fool was on them since id say conservatively, $50 pre first split? Maybe?
    Anyway. I like the fool. ;)
     
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  6. The Brontide

    The Brontide Active Member

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    I do like the fool too.

    But I hate being "fooled" by the incessant "rare double down" adverts and the spam that looks like it's part of the article at the foot of every page.
     
  7. TomB16

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    I was just browsing the HWO thread in the Canadian stock forum and it triggered a Motley Fool memory.

    As well as their recommendation to buy Dream Global REIT for the dividend, 90 days after the dividend was stopped, they had some upsettingly moronic oil field analysis in the 2010~2012 era. HWO had no debt at all during the oil price drop of 2016. Motley did an article on how HWO was going to loose market share and likely fail because they were not as motivated as companies that had high debt load. I hesitate to post this, because it sounds too ridiculous to be true but it was an epiphany.

    Any time two companies are in an existential struggle to acquire business in a dying industry, the company with less debt has lower operational overhead and a significantly higher chance of survival.
     
  8. Syynik

    Syynik Well-Known Member

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    I LOVE the books, I do check with them when I have a question, but I LOATHE their advertising constantly.
     
  9. A55

    A55 Well-Known Member

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    I don't expect anyone, free of paid content, to be correct even 1/2 the time. But sometimes, having all of this free content online, is of value. If an article online mentions something interesting, then I can look further into it on my own. Otherwise, I would be buying Robin Hood pump and dump all day long.. I would have a portfolio full of shrimp company which doesn't have any shrimp, a cartoon channel with no subscribers, electric car company with no car, a bankrupt car rental agency, cruise ships anchored with no passengers...
     
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    I watched a video on YouTube. Now I want to do some yard work in my underwear. Same way I'm so easily influenced that I buy everything on "rare double down buy alerts". Screenshot_2020-08-08-19-26-20.png Screenshot_2020-08-08-19-26-05.png Screenshot_2020-08-08-19-28-54.png Screenshot_2020-08-08-19-33-25.png
     
  11. B Russ

    B Russ Well-Known Member

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    Just mentioned the value of webull to my pal who we talk stocks all day. I make fun of him being on there. But in all honesty, he does have a pulse on the real time stuff. And was has sent me info i hadnt previously heard. Thus, making me late to the party.
     
  12. TomB16

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    From my perspective, a source that is correct 1/2 the time or less is a random number generator or worse.

    I think this is a case of people wanting info, wanting ideas, wanting to do something. There is something compulsive about it.

    It's difficult to stick to what you know and not do anything. Some would say it's impossible and I wouldn't disagree. For my part, I try my best to stick within my zones of knowledge and intelligence. Motley Fool has published factually incorrect information on way too many occasions to be a trusted source. I put considerable effort into defending my knowledge from the corruption of popular beliefs.

    Yeah, I know I'm an outlier. :biggrin:
     
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  14. 姑爺仔

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    Motley Fool is okay. I don't use it as my only source. I read a bunch of different articles fro CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, Wall Street Journal.....Then flip through trade journals, watch some porn, point the browser at Stockaholics, visit Popular Mechanics, skim through local news.....Then think about what I see in real life. SBUX is stuck around $75. I go down the block, pick up on the local coffee slinging mermaid, and go home with her. She says that her store has been slow. Reread whatever's out on the web. Then decide for myself that SBUX, YUM, and other fast food is way off revenue without the seats and tables. Then watch more porn.
     
  15. 姑爺仔

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    PSX_20200809_173204.jpg When they print something like buy and hold STOR, BAC, and AAPL.....What are they telling you that you don't already know? Those are 3 solid companies , paying dividends, with potential to grow. If I could only afford 1 AAPL, I would buy that instead of $400 worth of some 4¢ stock.
     
  16. TomB16

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    Perhaps I don't fully understand what you gentlemen are writing.

    Are you interested in what Motley Fool has to say about companies or do you follow it for exposure to different companies you might not think consider on your own?

    For a while, I belonged to a consensus analysis site but only to see a large number of symbols. I was breaking in some new ideas and wanted to follow a few hundred symbols. It was great for filling my research database with a few thousand companies, of which I've done, at least, preliminary research into 70%. As far as their analysis, I completely ignored it, just like I do Motley Fool.
     
  17. A55

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    When I read on Motley Fool that..... I don't stop there. I do more reading.
     
  18. A55

    A55 Well-Known Member

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    I wonder if Motley Fool is paid to post their content.
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  19. Vdubman

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    Stock promotion newsletters are stock promotion newsletters.

    I find about 90% of their work utter garbage. The other 10% is just copy pasting from legitimate research articles.
     

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