Both versions of Motley Fool Stock Advisor, the US flagship and Motley Fool Stock Advisor Canada, have been out with teaser pitches about their “A.I. Disruption Playbook” investment ideas, and readers have some questions… so let’s see what we can tell you. First, the US version… “5 years from now, you’ll probably wish you’d grabbed […]
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Travis Johnson is an individual investor who founded Stock Gumshoe in 2007 as a way to air his dissections of overhyped marketing pitches... and to share the "secret" stocks that stock newsletters hype to get your attention and your subscription dollars. His thinking? If you already know what the "secret" stock is, you can make a much more reasonable and thoughtful decision about whether or not to commit to an expensive newsletter subscription. (And if you don't pay for the info, you'll be more free to think for yourself about whether or not the investment is worth your money.)In his charmed life he has been, among other things, a university faculty member, a fundraiser, a writer, and a world-champion ice-cream scooper. Now he runs Stock Gumshoe for you, allowing us all to discuss and dissect the latest overheated stock ideas... as well as review and talk about investment newsletters and enjoy the commentary and opinions of Stock Gumshoe's other special contributors and the discussion with our unusually attractive, erudite and polite readers. He lives with Mrs. Gumshoe and all their little Gumshoes in the wilds of Western Massachusetts.
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Marc Lichtenfeld’s latest teaser pitch can be pretty well summed up by this one sentence: “This is the absolute best time in 20 years to buy bonds. Right now, they’re offering BETTER returns than the stock market with just a fraction of the risk.” And that’s grown to become a much more common refrain in […]
November 7, 2023
Lango’s “My Top AI Moonshot” Pitch
I’m going to be quick today… Luke Lango has a teaser ad that a lot of folks have been asking about, teasing his “Next NVIDIA: 7 AI Moonshots with 100X Upside” report about some possible smaller stocks that could surge higher, and I can offer a little bit of info, at least. The ad presentation, […]
Six months ago, I don’t know if anyone would have believed that we could have a seriously weak Apple (AAPL) quarter, continuing to demonstrate their failure to grow as China challenges continue and the latest iPhone fails to excite customers… but that the stock market would have one of its best weeks of the year, […]
November 2, 2023
Porter’s “Goldman Sachs of White Trash”
I never wrote about this teased pitch from Porter & Co. last year, but they continue to promote it as a “special report” in selling subscriptions to his Big Secret on Wall Street service (usually offered at $1,000/yr… Porter & Co. is apparently going to be absorbed into Stansberry Research again, now that Porter Stansberry […]
Here’s the lead-in to the latest teaser ad from Nomi Prins… “Obscure Midwest Firm Races to Unveil… The ‘EV Master Key’ “A resource snag is slamming the brakes on America’s EV rollout. “But one firm using AI has unlocked a novel solution — and experts say it could unlock a $10 trillion windfall” So what’s […]
This teaser solution and discussion was shared with the Irregulars in the Friday File a few weeks ago, but questions are continuing to come in, particularly as Melvin pitches this as a “Buffett v. Biden” story, and there has been some more news from the company, so we’re re-posting and updating our solution for everyone […]
October 27, 2023
Friday File: Insurance and Tech Earnings
Let’s start with insurance, because I love nothing more than putting everyone to sleep at the end of a long week… Kidding! These are the companies that actually often get me excited, running through numbers in my head as I try to fall asleep at night — not many business models offer better long-term returns […]
October 26, 2023
Three Stocks for “$200 Uranium” Fortunes
There are three things that seem to excite investors at the moment, at least if we go by the focus of the current crop of teaser ads and the number of questions we’re getting: Figuring out how to deal with income investing in a higher-rate world, Buying oil stocks to benefit from continuing demand and […]
This article was originally published on August 24, 2023, when Shah Gilani was making a very similar pitch for these same three stocks. The current version of the tease is undated, and not quite as long, but he’s still hinting at the same stocks. What follows has not been updated since it was originally published, […]
“#1: Collect an unmatched 7.6% in tax-free dividends and save thousands of dollars on tax every year “#2: Get in now at a 15% discount “#3: Grab up to 87% in potential gains in the next 12-24 months “This is the BEST tax-free investment available in America right now” That’s the lead-in to the latest […]
The latest pitch for Dave Lashmet’s Stansberry Venture Technology leans heavily on Lashmet’s recommendation of NVIDIA many years ago… “Our Top Tech Analyst’s A.I. Recommendation Soared 1,466% – the Highest Stock Gain Ever Recorded in Our Firm’s 24-Year History “Here’s the NEXT breakthrough he says will soon improve millions of lives – and could 5X […]
October 20, 2023
Friday File: Royalties, Robots, Insurance and Interest Rates
What’s going on these days? It feels like the world is on fire, and that the divisions encouraged by extremist entrepreneurial politicians around the world are pouring gasoline on every spark, helped by “curated” and targeted social media and “news” sources that destroy even any common understanding of what’s factual and inflate opinion and perspective […]
The first version of this article was published on May 25, 2023 — the ad has been updated with the new “December 10” date (now that the previous “September 10” date has passed), to go with the next expected dividend from the teased company, and I’ve re-checked the financial details below and made some minor […]
October 18, 2023
Reveal: Brownstone’s “Next NVIDIA”
Here’s the intro from the latest ad from Brownstone Research: “Tech research firm that picked NVIDIA before it soared 7,910% now reveals… “‘The Next NVIDIA’ “Small tech company is on the cusp of unlocking a $150 billion AI breakthrough for early investors (19 billionaires are already buying shares)” No surprise that’s generating some questions, right? […]
“I’ve found the next stock that I believe has just as much potential as (perhaps more than) Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, Netflix or Amazon. “In fact, it could be even bigger than any of those when all is said and done.” That’s from Alexander Green’s most recent pitch for the Oxford Club’s Communique, their entry-level newsletter […]
I’m not going to talk about Israel, or Ukraine. It’s just too heartbreaking and awful. People are the cruelest animals. But boy, that really limits our topics for discussion this week, hmm? Earnings are going to start trickling out for our Real Money Portfolio companies, we’ll hear from one or two reporting next week and […]
Jim Pearce is out with an ad that says we can “Own a Piece of ‘The Next Chevron,’” which was apparently a successful recommendation of his Personal Finance newsletter (long before Pearce was there). Here’s how he puts it in the ad, which is trying to sell Personal Finance subscriptions ($39/yr): “Just $33 Today Locks […]
We’ve looked at SOUN before and my opinion hasn’t really changed — they think they’ll be close to break-even by the end of this year as new contracts come in, and they’re cutting costs and restructuring, but the revenue is just so low that it’s hard to turn the corner into becoming a viable business unless their partnership deals accelerate a bit. Not impossible, but not so interesting to me at 20X sales.
October 6, 2023
Friday File: PAR, LAB, Chapters and Qurate
Talk of the real estate and corporate debt apocalypse continues, as rates remain high and investors begin to believe that they will remain “higher for longer,” and the lagging impact of that on some types of investments continues to hit the markets — especially with REITs and utilities and other very interest rate-sensitive businesses. There’s […]
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Posted on June 15, 2024
Posted on June 15, 2024
Yep, that was somewhat similar pitch from Luke Lango[...]
Posted on June 15, 2024
Don't know anything about it... what makes them stand out to you?[...]
Posted on June 15, 2024
No news from LAB. I expect it to require patience. Haven't looked at the other two recently.[...]
Posted on June 15, 2024
I expect he'll be gradually selling smallish chunks for many years. In this case I wouldn't say it's a clear negative, it's more the absence of a positive.[...]
Posted on June 15, 2024
Oklo's Alaska project was rescinded almost as soon as it was "pre-announced" last fall. That still has a tentative deadline of 2027, but there's probably no way for it to possibly be built by then. BWXT is supposed to deliver a micro reactor for the ar[...]
Posted on June 14, 2024
No, but I invest in insurance underwriters who I'm pretty confident are better at evaluating weather risks than I am -- and most of them don't actually take much of the catastrophe exposure for known property risk areas on their own, they use reinsurance o[...]
Posted on June 14, 2024
Haven't looked at that one yet, but I think I've got a copy in my pile... thanks![...]
Posted on June 14, 2024
This was back when ETHE traded around $20, several pundits teased that from time to time as an easy way to get Ethereum exposure for those who didn't want to dabble in actual cryptos.[...]
Posted on June 14, 2024
It's a cool story, for sure. I'd like to see the NRC license at least one non-light-water reactor before I invest in one of the hopefuls, since it's likely to take so long, but it certainly might work out fantastically.I like the idea of the Oklo reac[...]
Posted on June 13, 2024
True, though the Navy usually uses different stuff -- I think they primarily actually use HEU, the weapons grade stuff, as fuel in naval reactors, because it gives them a bigger power plant in a smaller space.[...]
Posted on June 13, 2024
Sounds like you probably mean the nuclear proliferation risk -- that flows from a Science article that [...]
Posted on June 13, 2024
Thanks bernigu! I'll take a look to see if that ad has changed, but it could just be a repeat of the "[...]
Posted on June 12, 2024
I'd say "no" and "no" -- they're certainly pushing AI at Apple now, and investors reacted with a cheer, but no big partnerships or deals announced with the several companies teased with such promos.[...]
Posted on June 12, 2024
Thanks Sheryl... guess he hasn't updated all his ads to swap out the hints about PATH for ASML clues yet, I'll keep an eye out for that.[...]
Posted on June 12, 2024
Following the feedback, I went back and checked the Q's and K's -- yes, it turns out most of the apparent dilution was the conversion of Class B shares into Class A, so the real shareholder count is relatively unchanged since the IPO in 2020 (was slightly [...]
Posted on June 12, 2024
Yes, Tilson's #1 investment, the "would feel safe putting half my kids inheritance in" is still Berkshire Hathaway (he used to say, "kids college fund," but his kids are I think all graduated now, or close to it) -- that's essentially a repeat of [...]
Posted on June 12, 2024
In general, yes -- part of the challenge is that this was essentially a private royalty fund before going public, so they had investors in the fund who became shareholders, but there is also dilution. See tiger5's comments in this thread for some ameliora[...]
Posted on June 12, 2024
Haven't noticed that particular ad, but I'll keep an eye out.[...]
Posted on June 12, 2024
Thanks tiger5, great feedback on the accounting.[...]
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