The Motley Fool Reviews

Absolute garbage stock picks with little to none quality DD. Their charts make is seem like they pick a stok right before it blows up, but they conveniently leave out all of their losers. DO NOT BUY.

Upselling is their game and then sneakily the 30 day refund policy disappears in the fine print. No refund for me.

Research is ok but it's no better than the free stuff out there.

Terrible performance this year. Even worse than the market on the whole.

Well the old buyer beware still holds true. If you think you're on track by buying into Motley Fool think again. Your purchase price is just a come on that you will receive nothing for.

After that if you want any information good luck?? You will not be able to contact anyone, except people with their hand out wanting more money, to give you any information what so ever. I canceled out of their grip years ago and they still bill my card, and I have to fight with them to try and get a refund. I guess they stay just inside the law so the security commission doesn't shut them down.

As far as I am concerned it's your money and if you want to throw it away join Motley Fool and pay for every little bit of information that you may purchase. While some people have made a profit from the info. that they bought from Motley Fool after the initial purchase price, and double checking it with others.

But from what I can gather your chances are about 20 to 1 of doing so. Yep I just got billed again from them for 222.88 dollars and canceled them out years ago. I guess they figure a lot of people don't check the charges on their card and just pay it, and they must be right??? Or why do I keep getting billed from them after canceling years ago?

They are just looking for bag holders. I was dumb enough to pay them for the privilege of being a bag holder. Do not recommend.

Most of the stocks I bought based on Motley Fool reviews are down 60-80%. Thanks so much, you fools.

I subscribed to Motley Fool's website to get insight on which stocks to invest in. I took Motley Fool's recommendations, and then I checked them on the Yahoo Finance stock Summary page to see if analysts rated them as a "buy, hold, or sell".

Out of the Motley Fool's recommendations, I only purchased stocks that analysts showed a 1 - 1.9 buy rating for. When Motley Fool suggested I sell, I again checked Yahoo Finance to see what the analysts recommended. If analysts had changed the rating to between 2.2 - 5.0 then I sold. Over 12 months I showed a 31% return on my investments.

Was the Motley Fool subscription fee of $100 worth it? I would have to say "Yes", because I am not a professional investor who spends 40 hours per week researching stocks. I let them do the research, because I prefer to spend a majority of my free time hunting and fishing. Their recommendations helped me beat the S&P average over the same time period.

I lost a lot of money following their advice.

I have been a long-time user with decent returns on small investments. In 2021, decided to go in with a large nest egg and subscribed to the Rule Breakers, FinTech, which are supposed to be "the best" recommendations for maximum performance.

I followed their formula of investing percentages, investing on time, etc. Almost EVERY one of their picks are down, including some gems like VROOM, Lemonade, TruCompanion, Zillow, Redfin, some of which are down 80%. I understand that it is a down market but WOW - to be so wrong on SO MANY picks! Marketing material talks about massive gains - my experience was MASSIVE loss.

Even in a bear market (now), some of their recommendations during year post-Covid (before brother retired/transitioned responsibility) are now showing worse returns than this year's CW ARK Fund. One of their recommendation at .10 cts today. Love selling a stock for a 7k loss.

Of course, they may have sent out an alert to "sell" it after I dropped their service. But a fool me once moment (when I didn't renew last year). Don't even get me started on my foolish "buying" their options education/recs, that I never used, given risks (unless you only take their safe(r) entry/exit/roll recommendations on X stocks).

Ultimately, on me to "not" exit positions, when dropped >20%. As market was clearly transitioning out of high growth to value and/or "cash" b/c pending bear market/interest rate. Also on me to "go with them" in the first place (despite numerous articles, re: few traders actually beat the ETF/MF/etc) -- rather than robo, SP500, etc.

Probably looking at a 200k loss courtesy of MF in the past 2 years (across my various accts). My WFront robo with aggressive profile -- much less red. Yes, I have more than their min recommended stocks (actually 50-75). I will slowly sell off the dogs to offset capital gains from my Div stocks, real estate, etc.

I have been using their service for about 12 years. I tried investing on my own but just did not have the time to do the research and get it right. My first buys on my own crashed and burned. I had bought a number of their stock picks over time and have seen my overall portfolio double.

One of the first picks I bought was UNH which is up 1,882%, much better than I could have picked on my own. I have also weathered the ups and downs over the past few years, seen some of their picks go up 1000% and a few like Luckin Coffee go belly up. I agree they missed that one.

For me, their gainers far outweigh their losers and have done way better with their guidance. I don't buy on every recommendation, but I appreciate they offer insight and visibility to companies I never thought of. I bought SQ when they recommended it at $38 in March 2020. It went to $289 in November 2021. If you take a look at the market, everything is tanking.

Sure I get that if you just bought their service and their recommendations are tanking like the rest of the market you would be mad. Me too. But I can speak to their long term advice that has done well for me.

I just posted a longer review but missed the chance to pick stars. Almost twenty years ago I noticed a scorecard of all major newsletters by Mark Hulbert now of Market Watch, and that year Motley Fool was number one on the list.

I have been a regular subscriber since then. Most of their picks beat the market over the long haul, and by a big margin; but if you join when the market is already sky high, you are going to wait a long time for success. That's the way it works for all investors.

I subscribed to Motley Fool in the Fall of 2021 and purchased 10 different stocks based on their monthly recommendations.

Virtually every stock lost a minimum of 40% and some upwards of 60%. I am cancelling my subscription and avoiding their recommendations at all costs.

everything they write is opinion pieces to serve themselves or their associates by scamming readers

Motley fool in my opinion is full of speculative advice. I have yet to see any advice with real substance behind it. I suggest one steer clear of this nonsensical site and its so call investing advice. One thing they advise that seems obvious is that bitcoin is a scam and should be avoided. This is great advice but is obvious to any wealthy pragmatic investor already.

If you take the 30-day trial review and cancel, Motley Fool will unleash their spam and phishing excellence on you.

So far I am still on the fence line hence the 3 star. I joined Motley Fool (MF) about a year ago and only started to invest in stocks recently. One of the stock did make quite a bid of money after 6 months but the tech stock markets are all moving up in unison so I cannot tell the wheat from the chaff yet.

I don't like their constant pitch to upsell you new services that can amount of hundreds to thousands of dollars per year. You will need to invest a lot of money to make it worthwhile assuming the recommendations work out.

Another caveat is that their advertised rate of return is based on their initial time of recommendation. This means the rate of return will ALWAYS be less than the advertised rate for those who joined shortly after- given that the stock would go up dramatically after the Motley Fool announcement.

I suspect some of the gains is due to Motley Fool investors voting as a single block and holding the stock as recommended. The other thing I don't like is that MF will give away the list of recommended stocks (from Stock Advisors) for free as an advertisement gimmick. Given that MF seldom updates the listed, this really short change the Paid Subscribers such as my self while MF rack in new subscribers at the former's expense.

They recommended TCS month after month and many others picks that dropped like sky diver, I bought at low's 40. Guess what the price is today! I do not know much about investment, but I think I can do a better job in picking stocks then they can. unfortunately, not has good sensing a professional business protocol. Be warned.

With Covid 19 i missed the crash and had some money to invest. Their video service was very useful and helped keep me sane through the wild market ride. I bought about 3 of their service. after the first you get a weekly teaser of "24 hours only - buy this special service run by our super duper team - for only 1500 to 3000 dollars. But i had seen most of the stocks before. The last big one was get all their services for a mere $14,000 the first year with $5000 charge every year in the future. No thanks. Listen to some of the videos with Stock Advisor - their basic service, figure out how to use their forums and see the member pages with what they actually own. but be really careful of their high pressure sales to up-sell you on a limited time oportunity to get these extra special stock picks on whatever (today was 5G) that they never told you existed before and you only have 24 hours before the opportunity goes away.Treat this like a college seminar in learning to invest.

This site gives you top picks every month and stocks for beginners, as well as stocks to buy right now. It is less helpful with when to sell because it believes in keeping a stock forever, yet if you need to sell because you need income or have to make withdrawals it is less helpful when it comes time to make those decisions. I have made a lot of money following their suggestions and I particular like the suggestions of David and I love the new videos where you can submit questions. It is worth the money if you work at it and learn more about investing as you go about it. If you just want a magic stock pick you may not be happy. Then again if you by all the stocks they suggest and hold them for awhile you will probably be ahead. I have an account with a firm through my retirement which is run by a company selected by the company I retire where I worked. My small account has always beaten the return rate of that company because I use MF and I challenge the quite often and ask why I can't take my money out and invest it myself because I could do a better job! I get silence and they hate it when I bring up MF. Buy it and Try it and work at it!

I just lost several thousand dollars on their latest recommendation, Luckin Coffee (LK). The stock dropped 90% a month after they pumped it, and now trading has been halted because of fraudulent financial reporting. Motley Fool sent an email alert saying "buy Luckin Coffee in 1 minute!" as if they had some inside information. They had none. Their other recommendations are over valued stocks that have already had gains of 30-70%. Once you sign up for their letter, they immediately try to sell you on an upgrade to "premium" service, so you know that the picks they are giving you at the lower level are crap, or the left overs from the premium service. Stay away, there are much better newsletters out there.