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Unexpected Stock Picks and Looking to the Future

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Unexpected Stock Picks and Looking to the Future In this podcast, Motley Fool contributors Rick Munarriz, Jason Hall, and Travis Hoium dive into stocks that they are willing to give up their Fool card for…
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  • Hims & Hers is doing things completely differently than status quo in healthcare, taking expensive doctor visits and pharmacy trips direct to consumer

    80% confidence
  • Upbound's revenue has been in high single digits for about two years and accelerated to 11% in latest quarter

    80% confidence
  • $1,000 invested in Nvidia on April 15, 2005 when recommended would be worth $1,086,211

    80% confidence
  • Live Oak Bank is one of the largest Small Business Administration lenders, which reduces risk through backstopped loans

    80% confidence
  • Stock Advisor has total average return of 941% compared to 194% for S&P 500

    80% confidence
  • Netflix will show discipline and still win Warner Bros. Discovery deal despite Paramount-Skydance raising bid

    80% confidence
  • Real problem for Netflix isn't losing viewers to other movie platforms but to short-form content on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts

    80% confidence
  • Live Oak Bank's founder Chip Mahan is one of the OGs in online banking, building tech platforms and lenders that don't make bad loans

    80% confidence
  • PayPal should remain solo company and stock will remain ho-hum despite acquisition interest

    80% confidence
  • PayPal brought in Enrique Loris as CEO for focus on efficiency and to be a buyback machine, not for innovation

    80% confidence
  • Hims & Hers' incentives are lined up with increasing access and lowering costs, unlike anyone else in healthcare industry

    80% confidence
  • Hims & Hers incentives today are problematic because they are so wired to prescriptions rather than consumer health outcomes

    80% confidence
  • Upbound can be purchased for five times forward earnings with dividend yield north of 7%

    80% confidence
  • Larry Ellison may not want to write $100 billion check to buy Warner Bros. Discovery given his stock is down 50%

    80% confidence
  • Netflix will pull off Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition because they have better ability to close deal than Paramount-Skydance

    80% confidence
  • Live Oak Bank combines specialization and extremely high-quality loan origination by building in-house expert teams for specific verticals before ramping up lending

    80% confidence
  • $1,000 invested in Netflix on December 17, 2004 when recommended would be worth $519,015

    80% confidence

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HP Inc. · share buyback37 percent
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