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Dave Gardner, Tom Gardner
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Motley Fool
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Launched by the Gardner brothers, with one stock pick from each per issue, but now Tom and David Gardner have largely stepped back from stock picking and the picks are made by “Rule Breaker” and “Everlasting Stock” teams.
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I’ve followed the Foll since nearly its inception and always been impressed with the quality of the analysis across their reports. I’ve been a Stock Advisor and Rule Breakers client for the past few years, finally giving them something ($$$) back for all the education they provided me through the years.
I would never buy ALL of their recommendations — one of their top rules is “buy what you know” — but their analysis allows me to understand certain companies better and make knowledgeable decisions.
Bottom Line: the stocks I’ve followed their recommendations on have provided an average 125% increase over the past 2 years. I cannot complain about that — The investment gain would pay for the next 15 years of the subscription price.
I’ve been trying out a few “experts” and recently checked my Motley Fool track record from email alerts I’ve received this past year and I have to say I wish I went with the Motley Fool recommendations instead of the others. 30 of 32 stocks pitched via “buy now” alerts and scorecard emails would’ve made me money. Of course that would depend on when I bought and sold as in any case. I’m still searching and testing but Motley Fool has my vote of confidence right now. FYI, I’m no expert, just a rookie getting up in age with little time left in life to figure it all out myself.
I’ve been a subscriber to Stock Advisor for 4 years now. I trust their research, and they’ve given me some great ideas (MELI, ATVI, CRM, amongst others). I always follow up with my own research before investing though, as everyone should. The only ding for me is their incessant e-mail marketing.
I subscribed to motley fool stock advisor and took a flyer with them in rule breakers and a couple others. I was building in my 401k and used this service for about 3 years. They do excellent research and they have access to much information that commoners do not. This gives them an inside track that most of us cannot match and they know how to use it. I accidentally ran 250 thousand up to 1.2 million in one month and canceled my subscription. No taxes, was in my 401k as mentioned. I rate them high on everything. The only problem I have with them is the way they are begging for new subscribers. I have almost put them on a spam list, but they have excellent recommendations for the most part. I also play options for the most part so I don’t fit well with their long term view; I like buying and selling frenzies where the volatility and mob mentality makes me a lot of money quickly(tlry, cron, cgc for the last month, amd before that). If they would stop the incessant emailing I would buy the service. Probably. In the meantime, I just want tips on what to look at, and I get that from gumshoe(Many thanks!) and fidelity, where my 401 is still located. Last week I bought tlry october 19 $110 calls in a roth account I set up to make profits when it hit 98 dollars a share on a down moment. I sold when tlry hit 240. That is the best I have done in a while. For steady income I sell weekly calls, and when I decided I wanted some cron, I sold some 12.50 weekly puts(which didn’t fill, so just money in the bank and I will sell more monday). I want more cron so I can sell weekly covered calls while I let it appreciate. I am also pretty heavy on future cron calls so call me long on cron and cgc. If you gave me tlry stock I would sell it at market when the market opens monday morning and the surge hits. I am playing with profit so I am risky, risky risky, sane people should not do a lot of the things I am doing. I will say that when it pays off, I see a screen full of green numbers where my G/l% runs to three and four digits, and I take profits way before I think the run is over thank god!
Lots of bull hockey from Motley Fool newsletters. Wild predictions and they deluge you with come-ons like so many others: Mampilly and Oxford Club to name just two others. Utter waste of time and enormously frustrating. I’m canceling all three; they’ve cost me too damn much and I’m sick and tired of getting only suck you in newslettrs to buy yet another one of their over the top unrealistic stock projections.
Welcome to the “I lost money using the Motley Fool Advisory Service” club!
My opinion of Stock Advisor after 5 years of membership is this: “Too late to the game.”
Both Tom & David tout their big winners from the past, and promote companies that have already passed the time of greatest gains. We’ve subscribed to a couple of the ‘Fool’ newsletters and have the same opinion.
I agree. I just joined in March 2019 and after looking at their picks, it does seem like I’m too late to the game. Very disappointed.
I agree with you both. Since I’ve joined SA all I’ve really gained is a great deal of advertising for their other subscriptions. More advertising than actual data fills up my email every day. When I do receive recommendations they are outdated and obvious. I am NOT an expert, in fact, far from it, but even I could recommend Amazon and Shopify. Doesn’t take a genius to recommend them.
Trish, I know you’re far from an expert as you’ve said but when you said even you could recommend Shopify would you have been recommending it back when it was $20 a share like Motley Fool did?
After months of paid subscriptions with the Fool the only “fool” was me. Of my entire portfolio the only positions in the red are the ones the Fool Canada recommended. Read their open source articles and do the opposite; unless it’s the infrequent “don’t buy BBD…” or another company that any child would know.
In short DONT BUY FROM THESE CONS
Not all of the Motley Fools newsletter are the same. Subscribe only to the Stock Advisor and maybe Rule Breakers. The other newsletters have mixed results – especially the Canadian Fool. In general, bet on David Gardner. His latest recommendation in Rule Breakers is Guardant Health. It has doubled in the last 3 months and like many of his recommendations, will continue to double year after year.
Solid work from Motley fool, SA is their best and most valuable newsletter.
Bad part – they re-recommend same picks sometimes (like AMZN and SHOP) and it gets pretty frustrating sometimes; also they reserve some special recommendations for their other newsletters like Rule Breakers which is frustrating.
I don’t think recommending AMZN over the last 5 years has been bad advice, even if they re -recommend it. It’s performing!!
I have joined several times to the Motley fool stock advisers. I am exhausted looking for stocks, so I get frustrated because I have yet to get a stock from here that I invested. I have no more money. I am down to my last of my funds. Why don’t you just tell us about the stock and important information about it. We pay for the service so why not tel us so we can invest on a stock that is the best. PLEASE HELP.
It is easy to invest in Motley Fool. Just subscribe to Stock Advisor only and buy only the ones recommended by David Gardner. It is that easy.
Having trouble logging in to my account
To many times the stock has already made it’s climb
Like except the pressure to up grade. It seems to be the standard in the industry to advertise a low price, once you buy if you want the better service it’s going to cost more. I think it is not ethical
I think Stock Advisor is one of the best investment newsletters out there. They have consistently outperformed the market for decades with their investments. They are totally transparent. They recommend long term investing. If you really read what they write, they recommend holding at least thirty stocks, start out with at least ten stocks, Be cautious about letting any one holding exceed 10% of your portfolio, buy quality companies and hold for the long term! I’m super impressed. My concern is that they love growth companies too much (I do too!) which are volatile, and they will take quite a hit if the markets tank. But this is shorter term thinking- unless we go into a long term recession. To be fair, they do discuss which stocks are more recession proof, value oriented dividend payers.
When I read prior comments, it seems like short term losses bring complaints more than long term investment issues. All the studies show that long term investing wins. Their results are honest and incredible. They are not buy-and-sell investors/ traders. They are ” buy quality and hold forever,” unless the company changes or the macro investment thesis changes.
My favorite thing is that they focus on education of the investor.
Getting mixed results. Stock Advisor and Rule Breakers. Some ups and downs. Worst advice was CodeBlack stock. Now into a “tender offer” from VM Software to buy CBLK at $26 share. The catch is a $38 fee to deal direct with VM or handle transaction through your Broker. Still wind up paying the $38 fee with the broker dealing with VM. Broker advised just selling on the open market. Only $6.95 that way. Cheaper way out.
I am a Stock Advisor (SA) Subscriber, and I have noticed a trend. Two stock picks a month from Stock Advisor. It seems about 20-30 minutes before a new stock pick is published, the stock price jumps, and in some cases, quite dramatically. Then within a few days to weeks, it drops back down, and often below where it was averaging before Motley Fool published it.
One theory I have is, a different news letter of theirs gives the stock pick to It’s members in advance, and tells them to buy and wait for the Stock Advisor publication to get a quick price spike, and secure a fast easy return.
My strategy now has been to put the newest pick on my watchlist, and wait for it to drop in price, (usually a few weeks) then buy in. This has worked very well with the majority of their Recommendations.
Does anyone know, or have a theory why this pattern happens specifically with SA. It was similar with Rule Breakers too. I didn’t continue with Rule Breakers after one year because they wanted $300 annually after my first year. Didn’t see that amount of value in the RB publication.
Overall SA is pretty god and I am way ahead, but it took implementing the strategy I mentioned above to win bigger. Usually there is a decent return within a few months of the pick being advertised.
MF has been accused of the “pump-n-dump” many times. If you pay the biggest bucks for their “Our portfolio” subscription, that’s just what you’ll see. Remember always, they have billions that they’ve made over the years. They don’t need any special help from the masses… they can run up a price, cause a momentum surge (accentuated by subscribers when they get the word), and sell at the peak.
I understand what you’re saying, but when you go back and look at the stock pics they made in what they own now. It seems a consistent long-term hold approach. I have been happy when I purchased the recommendations and hold them long-term. I do also agree they have multiple services and some of those may release stock picks before others that affect your performance. But given that statement, if you look at the stock advisor performance over an extended period of time it is still being my other investment. Think I will hang in for a while.
I just started noticing this, too. Great observation!
What is this triple buy alert I have paid my subscription to Motley fool but for the life of me can’t understand why this information seems to be withheld from me
I am a member of the Motley Fool also. I don’t know what they are talking about with the triple buy alert. They may be talking about Tesla. I am waiting to buy back in to Tesla if it goes back down to 750 or lower. It is a great stock, but the option buyers are making it go up and down. Right now with the stocks going down , I would be careful about buying any stocks. We don’t know how much the market is going to drop. You would not be happy if you bough a stock 10% down and it drop 20 or 30%. The Gorilla stock advisor is expensive, but they tell you when what to buy, sell, stop loss. and when to take profits. They also allow you to be a member for free for one month.
Most of those “triple buy alert” pitches have been clearly hinting at The Trade Desk (TTD), though they use similar ads often, and often re-use ads for years.
I was a subscriber to Motley Fool two different times in recent years and was dissappointed both times. Their recommendations were not impressive and they use their customers as leads to upsale more of their products to.
If you subscribed to either Stock Advisor or Rule Breaker, then you need to go back and check their recommendations again. You say you wern’t impressed, but I suspect you will be impressed with how well their recommendations have done . They have easily beat the S&P 500 during the years you weren’t impressed. They do advertise a lot, but forget that and just subscribe to Stock Advisor and buy what David Garner recommends.
I don’t know how you underperformed if you only subscribed to Motley Fool’s Stock Advisor and simply buy the stocks David Gardner recommended. I agree that LK, Luckien Coffee, was a big miss but that was not David Gardner recpmmendatiion and it is a huge exception and it involved fraud in China.
Yeah Dave, I agree with Rodger – besides getting screwed by LK and quite disappointed last year with Arista’s performance (true outcome yet to be seen, but I got out), BUT damn! Trade Desk, Okta, IIVI, and SHOP frigging rocked it for me.
I subscribe to Stock Advisor and Rule Breakers and find just about all were significant winners. LK was an obvious mistake and thankfully I do not buy anything in China.
Lost 88% on LK thanks to them.
Hi All,
Could someone please say what the current “ten best stocks” are, as recommended by the Motel Fool Gardners? That might help people on here (such as myself) form a view as to the likely usefulness of subscribing to their service.
Thanks, and stay safe,
Gabe
my advice is to buy their trial subscription for a year (1/2 price) and that will give you tne time to see if this newsletter is for you. need to try it for at least a year, and if you do not like, do not renew.
Thanks for replying Calvin. It is interesting to see the diverse views on here – I have indeed purchased a one-year subscription and so far have been happy enough with the recommendations. My take is that is probably best not to follow them blindly, but use them as a starting-point for my own research…on reflection, that’s probably pretty obvious so apologies to anyone who has just spent 10 seconds of their life reading this };0)
Anybody know the “One Stock for the Self Driving Revolution?” Rex Moore is beating my YouTube feed to death with it….