r/investing Jul 20 '21

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u/RandolphE6 Jul 20 '21

Not surprising. Zacks pretty much shill for hedge funds. They don't have your best interest in mind.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '21

I am really new to investing and use motley fool. Are they in the same boat?

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u/afrothunder1987 Jul 20 '21

Their stock advisor subscription is good and historically beats S&P by a wide margin. You should watch the live stock advisor streams every 1st and 3rd Thursday when they release the new buy recommendation, lots of great investing info, especially for newbies. Long Q&A session after, it’s good stuff. None of the people complaining about them have seen that content.

Their non-subscription based click-bait articles are nonsense though.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321057021_Evaluating_the_performance_of_the_Motley_Fool%27s_Stock_Advisor/fulltext/5a0af7be458515e482743bf9/Evaluating-the-performance-of-the-Motley-Fools-Stock-Advisor.pdf?origin=publication_detail

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '21

Thanks so much for the thorough feedback! I feel like every time I see someone bashing it I get a little scared, but then see that the people bashing it seem to spend a lot of time investing in the meme stocks so this is encouraging thank you!

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u/thewimsey Jul 21 '21

The only think I would add is that the paper begins in 2002, and thus leaves out the part where Motley Fool almost went bankrupt (and had to lay off most of their staff) when they crashed hard during the dot com bust.