The Motley Fool Duke St, Alexandria

We've done pretty good in mutual funds over the years, but I wanted to hit that one "home run" and I thought that maybe using a popular paid stock advisor might help me achieve that objective. Motley Fool recommends stocks every 2 weeks as well as advising to add to your investments regularly, then holding them for 3-5 years. It has now been one year since I started their service and have bought 18 recommended stocks over that time. Currently 17 of those stocks have LOST MONEY with an average loss of 26%! That’s right – only 1 stock has earned me any money! This after the S&P finished 27% up in 2021! I am glad that I did not put a lot of money in these stocks (about $1000 each), since I wanted to test this strategy before going in seriously. Miracles do happen and perhaps enough of these recommendations will turn around and make this portfolio turn positive, but I have my doubts! I’d need one heck of a year to just come up to even! I will not be subscribing to their service again, nor will I be using their advice anymore. I may hold on to the stocks that I have and see if my money will recover in 3-5 years. Certainly not the experience that I was hoping for, nor a service that I can recommend.

If you are looking for investment tips Motley Fool may be the place for you but BEWARE. Once you purchase the stock advisor portion you will need to continue to spend more money to get more tips. I felt mislead by the process. I requested my money back about a week past the 30 day window and there was nothing they can do. I did not get what I feel was advertised and felt it was very gimmicky for how they keep wanting you to pay more for additional better advise. Research more before you buy. They might have more tips if you are willing to pay but the average investor should look research other options.

So I joined MF on a basic service, then was bombarded with offers of services that claim significantly better performance then the S&P500 ETC. After careful consideration and reading their growth statements I upgraded my service to Blast off 21, at nearly $2000AUD, and invested a significant amount of money! After nearly 6 months the portfolio is over 20% down, whilst the S&P is 15% up. They state to hold for 3 years for returns, that said the current losses will most likely take at least a year to recover, if they do. When I wrote to them asking what, or if there is a strategy to help improve the performance of the portfolio. I receive an unbelievable response stating "they take no responsibility for the performance of the recommendations", and I am "responsible for the investments", even though the whole intention of the service is to recommend stocks and follow their recommendations to the letter, which I initially did. Along with some statements clearly expressing their legal responsibility. So you will only hear about the wins and the outstanding performance of some of their stocks, but not the losses, and don't expect MF to offer any useful responses to when they don't perform. Of course all companies will state their wins, I completely understand this, but its when things go wrong that the true measure of a company and its customer service will be evident. I also understand that stocks can go down significantly with market swings. But when a service is openly and clearly marketed, and sold on its performance to against another and then fails miserably one has the right to be upset. The most disappointing part was their response to my question. This clearly showed them to be a marketing company and not a true investment advisory company

The website is difficult for me to use. I like Tip Ranks and Simply Wall St much better! I also don't appreciate getting emails constantly trying to get me to upgrade to get information that would help my portfolio. Very high sales push to upgrade. >:-< Not a fan.

Purchased every stock they recommend since 2019, now I'm broke. They only recommend stocks that have already exhausted their potential, sending us minions to prop up stocks for their insider base. Waste of money.

Scam: They told people to buy stocks at their highes price ever claiming that the investment was long range but the truth was that they knew they were telling people to invest in the peak of the biggest bubble ever. One example say it all: SHOP down 90% and will probably never (in our lifetime) reach the price it had in 2022 when they told people to buy it Worst 75 U$D I spent in my life and made me loose so many more money than that They cannot say that they did not know Stock Advisor did not advaise on the bubble Thanks for that!

I know this is a rough market but literally all your picks are significantly below the benchmark. Even your “all in” is a train wreck. I did better picking my own stocks, at least put something out acknowledging that your all in pick was a failure and seems like a scam for all paying members. Again, while knowing that no one has a crystal ball your literal job is to give sound investment advice and you have underperformed (disney, tradedesk).

The Motley Fool offers to disclose their pick of crypto ETF's in exchange for your email address as in: "Enter your email to read more and see which coin we’re betting our money on." Their email response does not meet their advertised offer, their email requires a paid subscription. Looks like classic false advertising.

I was misled by their overblown promotion, which led to an issue with my existing account. They did not respond to multiple emails, and did nothing to correct my subscriptions when I called the call center number. Nothing about this transaction reflected any appreciation for the amounts i spent with them over the years, but now I know what kind of a company I was dealing with. Beware. This could have been easily fixed with little fuss.

My personal experience has not been the best. I have learned some things about stock trading from their $200 service, but the advice from the fool has resulted in thousands of dollars in losses the last 15 months even as the stock market has hit record highs. The fool will at times be far too optimistic about a stock only to see it tank. Will those stocks eventually make money in several years, maybe. But the stocks I purchased based on their optimistic recommendations have done very poorly. While most the stocks I researched and purchased have done extremely well. In addition, I've never been with an organization that spends more time trying to upsell you on services that cost thousands of dollars. This is their business model. My email inbox is flooded with long winded videos. Based on my poor experience with their entry level service I now ignore those videos. Maybe if I purchased one of their expensive services I would have made money. I'm not willing to chance it. This will likely be my last year as a member.

My review might change 5 yrs from now, but I invested in Motley Fool earlier this year and I’m not impressed. I selected stocks that Motley Fool recommended and I am down more with their recommended stock picks than I ever was picking stocks on my own. They boast of great gains, unfortunately those are not the stocks I chose to invest in. I’m down around 25%, but holding onto them in hopes they turn around in 3-5 yrs. I still hold 7 of the motley fool recommended stocks (-57%), (-18%), (-28%), (-13%), (-23%), (+24%) & (+11%). They did recommend two stocks that I already invested in, but I sold the stocks before they recommended them with a great increase, one is higher than when I sold by 5%, the other is lower by 30%. I won’t renew my membership. Good luck to all the investors out there. Stocks are a great long term investment, but I am much happier with the performance of my stock picks than Motley Fools stock picks.

It is probably the best investment that I have ever made. I am normally very skeptical of online investing sites and their claims but I recommend Motley Fool without hesitation. I have over doubled the value of my portfolio in a little over two years following Motley Fool. I would say that the recommendations have I have invested in have at least an 80% succes rate. I probably under utilize what Motley Fool has to offer but I am very happy none the less, I am a long term investor so its a perfect fit for me.

Their stock picks perform well. And the supporting information is presented well, and makes sense. But, they advertise a bit too heavy for my taste. There was this option seminar. They've sent me like five "last chance" reminders. In fairness, however there is an option to unsubscribe.

I’ve been a The Motley Fool member for about three years and have a portfolio of about 150 of their recommended stocks of which all but 11 currently show gains of up to 450% while the current losers average under 10%. To the greatest extent, I buy and hold for the long term, only selling when I lose faith in the fundamentals of a company. The very conservatively calculated compound annual gain of my taxable account is 21% and of my 401k account is 45%. (The difference is due primarily to annual buys in the 401k vs continuous buys in the taxable account, since the stocks largely overlap.) My very conservative gain calculation is the nth root of (total gain divided by total cost) raised to the yth power - where n is the number of trading days from my very first The Motley Fool recommended purchase and y is 252 trading days per year. I’m very satisfied and highly recommend The Motley Fool to my five children, my students and my friends. I have just resubscribed to their comprehensive The Motley Fool One service, which is my only source of stock market advice.

The Fool has been amazing. The worst investment mistake of my life was not joining 10 years ago. I was always turned off by the ads. Someone from work told me what the fool was really like, I am so glad that they did. I don't think people realize how much time is saved by researching a list that has already been narrowed down to good companies. Eliminating companies always took up most of my time, and I am not as good at it as you. I love the Fool!

The articles in The Motley Fool, Stock Advisor, are well written, comprehensive, and to the point. They cover a wide range of stocks that have been instrumental in developing a balanced and diversified portfolio of high quality stocks. While I have various sources of online information Stock Advisor is the most trusted and reliable resource. Its the #1 online subscription I recommend to family and friends.

The Fool won me over forever with their early recommendation for Shopify, followed by solid high returns from other companies they analyzed and promoted as Buys. The only downside to me is how very much solid information they deliver and my difficulty in keeping up. I know I have missed good opportunities they gave me by not having the time to spend when the recommendation is fresh. By all means, join in.

I inherited a funded investment account. The first thing I did was subscribe to Motley Fool. I just did what they suggested I do. In Eight years l have made a very comfortable amount of money. I am no longer intimidated by the Stock Market. I can speak with knowledge about investing. In short I have learned a lot and made money doing it.

I've been a Stock Advisor subscriber for at least 25 continuous years, and have a portfolio that I am proud of. I got into the ground floor of many wonderful companies over the years: Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Google, Marvel (now Disney), and more--many of which are 5+ baggers (over 500% return for those who are not yet Fools). Sure, there have been a few mistakes I made--Whole Foods and Stitch Fix come to mind, for which I sold early or bought late. Overall, though, the subscription price is the best investment I make each year.

Unprofessional site with a lot of misinformation and spamming fud nonstop have some secret hate for shiba inu token too😂 only good thing I can say is they were quick with my refund after I made the mistake of signing up. I use pretty much any other site for investing advice motley fool is like the Wikipedia of financial advice. Very light and biased posts and very misleading don’t trust em there’s a reason they call you fools👌

Being a member of The Motley Fool pays off and is worth the money! They are promoting their activities in a nice and not aggressive way. The advice they provide is well framed with its limitations. E.g. they explain regularly that the focus is on the long term, that you should keep your stocks for at least 5 years, that you should strive for a portfolio of at least 25 stocks, that a fraction of their recommendations will not deliver the desired outcome. Furthermore they organise very useful events and have a very good website for members with different tools to well balance their stock allocation. Their website also provides members with analyses of companies (so called "Deep Dives"). The Motley Fool does not present things nicer than they are but also points to potential risks that an investor should consider. Recommendations for investments are well presented explaining the strengths of the company of the underlying stock but also what could go wrong (all available on their website for members). Overall well balanced and even more important: the Motley Fool allows you to invest in companies in a well informed way without going into an unnecessary level of detail.

Motely Fool runs on an aggressive growth strategy predicated on the fact that that technology is creating ideas and opportunities that will disrupt and supplant 'legacy' businesses. It is hard to argue with this thesis. The world is changing faster that an at any earlier time in history. Motley Fool focuses mostly on young businesses that they believe have the potential to change the future and become new Amazons and new Googles. They generally recommend businesses that are genuinely smart and clever. But there is a problem. Not every business built on great and disruptive ideas will succeed. Some will have poor management, some will have greater competitors and some will simply be wrong about the future. And a few will indeed become tomorrow's giants. MF's stock picks have done great in the explosive growth of the stock market from 2009-2021. But few of them are even making money yet. And in the last months of 2021, many of the stocks MF recommended began to lose value as inflation loomed-up and threatened higher interest rates. And that is the thing: MFs picks are momentum stocks mostly: they look stunning on paper, but mostly because of growth they have already realized. As the fundamentals of the market undergo profound changes from Covid and other factors, many of these stocks won't 'work' anymore (at high valuation) and there is real risk for a meltdown. Yes, technology controls the future, but the road ahead is unknowable (witness Covid). Some of the amazing stocks the MF suggests will pay-off and make some people rich while others will not. And, in my opinion, MF is not good at warning people of the risks. I think the 2-5 years ahead will be much harder on investors and growth stocks will fall from favor as their performance craters. MF is particularly vulnerable to this and they are going to need to shift their advice in order to keep up. Meantime, use them if you like, they have some brilliant insights, but be careful. The markets are changing fast.

I've been using the Motley Fool Stock Advisor service for more than a decade and I can't recommend it more highly. If you're ready to be a long term investor and take their advice, the returns can be incredible. As they say, not every choice is going to be a winner, so I leave all the research to them and invest some of my money in every recommendation. That way I have much more than balanced out the duds with the winners. The only negative I've experienced is their sneak-marketing campaigns for their more expensive services that masquerade as informative talks. They're truly infuriating. I'd think those would turn more people off than anything else, but it must work since they keep doing it. Just be aware.

I've subscribed to different services with The Motley Fool since 2010 and have definitely gotten my moneys worth! Especially from investing advice that had been given directly by either David or Tom Gardner, the founders of The Fool. I would highly recommend that anyone subscribe to their Stock Advisor subscription - definitely worth the $149!

Helped me turn only $10,000 in each of my 2 kids college funds to 550,000. so 20k to 560k since 2006. Thanks to shopify in 2017 and a couple others. Look at all their picks and then pick the ones you like the story of best. Even $2,500 of 8 total stocks can turn into half a million dollars. Thanks Motley Fool So much better then the professional pundits on CNBC, pick Motley's dirsrupters and wait patiently, never sell all of the picks you love.

I've been a Motley Fool member for many years. They are unassailably ethical, and their track record of stock picking is nothing less than spectacular. Their marketing, on the other hand, makes them look like scheisters. Subscribe to one service and you will forever be pestered to buy more. Frankly, it has been effective on me because my experience with most of their services has been that they are a good return on investment. But the marketing is annoying enough that I am giving them only 4 stars here. Overall, though, if you are just getting started in investing, I recommend subscribing to Stock Investor. It's their flagship service and is very reasonably priced. Follow their advice on how to distribute your funds across the portfolio and you will not be disappointed.

I trust the info I get from Motley Fool. I do my own investing, but still use a broker for transactions. He consistently tells me I am his most successful customer. I infrequently share a tip and always recommend he take a subscription on his own.

I've had their service for 5 years now. Informative and timely information and advice. Well worth the subscription price. Very satisfied. You still need to be responsible and selective with your personal stock holdings. Even Motley Fool picks a dog once and awhile.

The Motley Fool is a great financial service provider. They do all the research and analytical work needed to provide excellent financial advice. They think "long", as I do in investing. Their recommendations pay for themselves over and over again. They provide continual opportunities to learn about the investments they recommend, and have a user friendly approach to doing so. They provide a variety of free ancillary services to enhance the products they sell. I love dealing with them. I have made a lot of money by taking their advice.

Have been a member for over 2 years now and loving my stock results. I would not have the increases I do today without Motley Fool. They do all the research that you don't have time to do on good companies to invest in. I think I will be a member for life.

I have been a subscriber to the Motley Fool Service for about five years. For the most part the recommendations of been good. As with any service of this type there have been a few bone-head picks too. Overall, I have been very pleased.

Fool.com is the best of the best. I have been using the services of this company for 10+ years. I would not be retiring had I not started using their services. So much to teach about Stocks, Options, and investment philosophy. They are my #1 Conviction company.

Since I joined Stock Advisor my portfolio has climbed tremendously. I've learned more about the market and feel MF has a good hold on advice. They aren't always 100% in their reco's but who can be in this volatile market nowadays?

If you have a desire to invest in your own but don't have the time to perform the due diligence and background on stock opportunities, this service is for you. Because of the Fool's, I will be retiring 5 years earlier than planned! Subscribe without hesitation.

I like that MF puts out recommendations. They give their argument for the stocks they pick. It is up to the individual Fools to see how the specific stocks line up to their own goals. I buy the philosophy that holding 30ish stocks in a portfolio and planning on owning individual stocks for at least a 5 year time horizon is an efficient way to invest in stocks.

I purchased a subscription to Stock Advisors on the Motley Fool about 6 months ago. At the time I believe this was 200 dollars. The first stock the recommended to me is up over 100% The service has paid for itself many times over. I took a friends account with 7k loaded it into the Motley Fool Starter portfolio and its firing on all cylinders. Up 6% in one day, I'm really enjoying everything that I'm learning from the fool as well as making money! Remember 1 share is better than no shares at all!

The Motley Fool's Stock Advisor service is a high quality stock and investment newsletter. I highly recommend it.

Easy - they have made me a small fortune and taught me so much at the same time while enjoying the experience. That does not mean that there haven't been some spectacular losses! It's just that losses are limited, gains are not and you learn this in a long drawn-out pleasant and satisfying way as your portfolio gains value as the years go by (with hiccups that are almost invisible when looking back at the curve).

As of now, I would not recommend Motley Fool anything. I am new to investing and stocks, due to just finishing school and starting a full-time job. I invested about $1,850 over 6 months and that grew to about $2,150 prior to applying the Motley Fool paid subscriptions to my stock portfolio. So about a month ago, I changed my portfolio up to what the Motley Fool would recommend and since I did that, my investment amount has gone from ~$2,150 to about $1,750 ($400 loss). I know it's not much to most people. But to me, that's a loss of about 18% which I was not happy about and it would have been a lot higher if I had more money in there. I'm sad my investment isn't likely to grow the market average of 7% over the next year. Revision two months later (01/27): I removed some of my money out of Robinhood, but here's a screenshot of what's happened over the last 3 months due to signing up for Motley Fool and choosing the stocks they recommended... absolute garbage.

I've been utilizing services offered by The Fool for almost seven years. I started with Stock Advisor and added a couple more services later. The difference it has made, quite simply, is this: I'm able to retire at 65 when I thought I'd have to continue working until I was 75. I cannot express how thankful I am for the members of the Fool community who have offered excellent financial advice!!! THANK YOU ALL!!

One of my biggest regret in life is ignoring the emails from Motley Fool over 10 yrs ago. After investing for almost 10 yrs on my own and recently signed up with them last year, I realize that I could be in a better financial freedom. It didn't took long for me to understand why the Fools pick what they picked due to my experienced in investing which is too conservative. The Fool strengthen my long term mindset and gave me a some life lesson in finance and family. Its a fun group with great analysts. My favorite part is The Wrap with Jason Brian Danny Annand. Mindset with Asit Tim and Brian S also makes me feel that Im not as bad in money as I thought. Great investing group , lots of things I learned in family and money and I will be a Fool investor for life.

I do not like paying for yearly memberships, but when they make me more money then they cost me, that totally changes things. Motley Fool has been a trusted name in the investing community for a long time. I cannot remember ever hearing anything bad about you guys and if I did, I am sure I did not agree with them. The stocks I have purchased based on your recommendations make me way more than my yearly membership. The stocks that I can look up on your site to get your opinions on, and sometimes NOT buy due to your write ups, also save me money. I only keep your membership and an old lifetime flex alliance with Stansberry. Between the two of you every question I need answered and more all get addressed. I do belong to an angel investor network but only because the Fool does not have that information. Keep up the good work. I love you guys. David Getoff (.com)

I suddenly was bombarded with offers from Motley Fool; I used $1000 last week to buy small amounts of the 5 stocks they recommended. This week it is worth $800; every day I watch it go down, down, down. Thank God that I did not invest more!!

If you can tolerate the non-stop spamming emails constantly trying to upsell you on whatever the next upgrade is for your account, they're decent. I'm 50/50 on the stocks I purchased from their suggestions, lost more than I've made so far. They have a lot of great insight and do great research though. But the almost daily spam of upselling is insane. My advice, do their basic account and mark the emails as spam.

I have been a member of the Motley Fool since 1997. I have been subscribing to the Stock Advisor for over 10 years and find the information extremely informative. The website provide a great platform to discuss potential investment opportunities, and is a great resource for finding great information to help you with making informed decisions about your financial future - for all stages of your life - from beginning investor to retirement planning. I highly recommend the Motley Fool if you want to learn more about investing and make more informed decisions about our financial future.

I've been a Motley Fool member for, I guess, seven years now. I joined because of the insightful and unbiased ideas I was hearing on their radio broadcasts, and I have not been disappointed. They have given me investing ideas that I never would have thought of on my own. They do much of the hard investigating work for us, and even send out emails when they think we should sell a stock. Their advice is based on solid research into a company, the industry it's in, and the market as a whole, and I think it's a bargain at $199 per year for the service I signed up for.

Motely Fool has proven to be a very good source of research and information on investing, particularly in stocks, over the years. With the upcoming departure of founder David Gardner, I believe they are losing one of their biggest and best brains. This is how their subscription business appears to work, to me. You pay an annual fee to become a member (now, it's apparently $199/yr) and they provide you with some basic level of research and a few recommendations, much of which you're exposed to through a never-ending stream of sales pitches in which they attempt to convince you to pay them A LOT MORE MONEY in order to get a specific set of stock recommendations pertaining to some investment concept or trend. So you're buying into the opportunity to be pitched on buying "research product" from them. Along the way, you do get general investment tips and you do get individual stock recommendations from time to time that may or may not be part of recommendations that are made to the general public (i.e., non-members). But if you want what I would describe as their BEST research, you need to spend more money...a LOT more. Is it worth it? Historically, the answer is probably a solid YES. But some may feel differently.

For rule breakers and stock advisor: all positive. My portfolio is crowded with stocks I've bought because of them. I recommend those two services to everyone who's curious about what advice service I use. For options: not so much. I was pleased for 3 years. But in 2019, the trade alerts from the options service withered away to almost nothing. One of the advisories said that after the beginning of the years trade alerts would resume. But still, almost nothing. I wonder what it is I paid $1000 for? I now recommend against the options service.

I subscribed to Motley Fool for three years, but I did not know they automatically renewed my subscription for another three years. Now, they will not refund my money. This is unfair and deceptive trade practices to automatically renew my subscription.

Best investment I’ve ever made... 99$ annual charge to earn 52% return in a year? Pretty good investment if you ask me. Couldn’t have started my investing journey without Motley Fool and certainly have no regrets. Renewing my membership for year 2 is a no brainer! Thanks MF!

I’ve been a subscriber of Stock Advisor for many years now. I subscribe to several newsletters and this has been the most useful of all. I also like all the education and and updates. My only suggestions to readers is to do your homework before buying a recommendation. Understand the stock you are buying and the addressable market that it serves. If I were to make a suggestion, I would like to have Stock Advisor do an ongoing report card of all their picks, since many go back for years. I’m not that comfortable with buy, hold and forget. It would just make me a little bit more comfortable an investor. I’m sure some of the old picks could be replaced by more attractive current stocks. Thanks for all the great work you do.

I really love and appreciate the education provided on stock picking. They’ve helped stoke my enthusiasm for the financial markets. I’ve truly learned more about the world and have gained greater appreciation for it. I’ve found the motley fool to be ethical educational enthusiastic and down to earth fun .Oh yes I really have had tremendous growth in my portfolio with their guidance

I got a Motley Fool subscription because I was naïve to investing and fell for their "easy picks, make money" shtick. After I started to lose serious money through their recommendations I began to do my homework more. Any financial advisor that recommended Lemonade knowing what I do now(and they must have known at the time) should lose their job. Underneath this they will leave a big form letter about diversifying or holding. At -38%(and falling) Lemonade is the best example of their bad advice but the entire (15 stock) portfolio is down by an average of about ten percent. If a friend had recommended Skillz and Pinterest then they wouldn't be my friend for much longer. Also they somehow think this dead dog of a folio is a good way to recommend their 'premium' services. Bad

I like much of the Motley Fool but I feel duped when they claim to be giving members information if you listen to their podcast and it is really a sales push to subscribe to expensive add on features. I am a member and just wasted 40 minutes and at the end they gave the sales pitch rather than the information expected. Not kind to members day!

Always gives good detailed evaluations of companies based on a proven methodology. I don't always take the advice, but I always use the information provided to make a better decision. The Stock Advisor track record is second to none, and fits well with my personal approach to investing. It is investing, NOT trading. If you want to trade, look elsewhere and expect to have a tough time. If you are a serious, long term investor this is the place to start.

I particularly enjoy reading about the companies that you are recommending each month. I am part of an investment club and this is my starting basis for evaluating any stock we are considering buying and sometimes selling. I like that the approach is not strictly by the numbers. Each member does their own research and we do bring info from many different sources so this helps us to maintain a healthy portfolio. Suzanne

Stock advisor seems like it's gone quite downhill. I have tried this for almost a year following all their buy recs and have bought the first option each time they would recommend a list of stocks to buy and though I initially was getting a 15% return, I now have a 15% loss overall. I can't recommend their service and I feel it has gone substantially downhill since the original founders left last May.

EH - they give some advice as "buys". You think you are getting something great. Then they just stop talking about those companies altogether - instead of saying we should think about selling them. They were still recommending ZM after it's peak, and now it is significantly less. Did they count their recommendation to buy it after the peak in it's calculation of how successful they are at investing? I think not. Lots of recommendations at the height of price, and then as the prices fall you never hear them mention it again. Look at Lemonade, another Fool pick. Use a dartboard blindfolded for new picks. Everyone already knows about Amazon and Google - which are driving their high return rates.

The Motley Fool lies to their customers by saying, "The Motley Fool has been a trusted source of investment and financial advice to millions of members." No one believes their fake, biased, paid-for articles that are written by them, and to make matters worse, they try and sell their shill media as a subscription. Do not make the same mistake I did by paying for a membership thinking you would get credible investing advice. They do not have retails best interest in mind, they are a hedge fund looking to line their pockets.

I joined this service a couple of months ago, getting 'a deal' for paying 100 per year for the most basic stock advisory list. Although this is not much, it is equivalent to a Spotify or Netflix cost on a month by month basis. What happened after has been extremely disappointing and I will not be upgrading or adding any services here. I would even say this is near close to a scam. They recommend some 'timely stocks', which have dropped 25% or more lately. Ok, the stock market hasn't been great but their picks have been particular disasters. In addition, I am constantly, and I mean constantly being bombarded by emails and on platform adds to pay more money to get 'better' recommendations. What a joke. Honestly, you can find all information and much higher quality for free. I basically paid for trash, generic info and to be hounded by ads from them constantly. I wouldn't wish this on my own enemies. Terrible product.

I bought this service because the teasers said if I upgraded to a subscription I would get the valuable secret advice reserved for members only. So I bought a 2 year subscription and now I get constant teasers telling me I need to upgrade to a more expensive subscription level to get the valuable secret advice. And, had I taken the advice they did give I’d be suffering significant losses. There are better services out there, look around.

I need to be really down in the dumps over disappointment about stock suggestions. I am wondering if MF is recommending stocks that they own, have pent up demand, and are down in the dumps like the rest of this world. Please fellow investors. Follow me in positive thinking, positive actions, and great hopes for the EV, AI, Tesla, Nvidia, Pfizer, revolution. I still Love You Motley Fool.

This company has truly lost its way. I'm not speaking to the performance of their services, although I have lost a lot of money at present. No, what I am referring to is the predatory upselling of premium services, where they overpromise and then completely under-deliver. I took a leap of faith and signed up for a premium service portfolio, which cost $1300, only for it to become a veritable ghost town after a few months, continually missing deadlines and failing to deliver promised services. All the while I continued to get bombarded with sales pitches to new services. I was left to draw the conclusion that the staff were too busy trying to make money on new services to actually provide what I and other members had already paid for. This company does not operate with integrity. I'm really sad to say it, as there seem to be some great people working there. I'm honestly saddened by the whole experience and I would advise whoever reads this review to avoid The Motley Fool entirely.

They make recommendations without thorough investigation of economic conditions and then use the 5 year rule to cover their poorly based research and recommendations. Any "FOOL" can pick a stock that will likely improve in stock price for where you puchased with a 5 year time horizon! The purpose for us fools to purchase a service is to receive in-depth insites on the companies worth investing in at the right economic situations. They made many horrendous recommendations on high rated and extremely expensive growth companies even though there were fed rate hikes coming. (Any experienced adviser/broker sould know what rate hikes do to growth companies, especially in industries that have exceeded normal growth activities for many quarters leading up the the hikes. Seems to me that they pay no attention to these important details and allow their subscribers to catch their falling knives, maybe so that large money managers can sell. They will respond to this with, you made the choice to buy or you have to wait 5 years but never in 20 years have I been dealt such horrible advice! It's criminal and they should not be allowed to continue making such careless and reckless recommendations and cause such devastating loses to the average investors looking for help in making better .and more educated decisions on companies to invest in. STAY AWAY! Unless you choose to short their recommendations...

I am unhappy with Montley Fool's service. I ahev stop subscribing their service, but they have continued to take money from my account. This unfare and I would like them to return my money. As a service you don;t have to forv=ce people to use your services. Beware!

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Every 2 or 3 emails was a request to pay more to gain extra "inside" information on the next greatest thing. Sent an email cancelling my membership, low and behold NO REPLY NO REFUND

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To date I've followed their instructions and purchased 30 stocks. I would have been better purchasing 1 stock from each NASDAQ or S&P because both of those did better, but this is only after 1 year.

Always talking bad about doge but will randomly praise it and then talk bad about it. Horrible place to get advice they try and pump what they have bought as any other person would.

I regret signing up for Stock Advisor. I have not invested in any of the Fools ideas so I cannot speak for the investment advice. But they are a marketing machine as I get more junk mail suggesting upgrades and specials expirations than I care for. If your advice is good I might upgrade but multiple reminders on how to buy more services from you is too much for me and it is not what I signed up for.

Seldom do I have to make a post like this. I signed up for the $99.00 money back guaranteed offer. Big mistake. In my opinion the information shared was very similar to the information that is provide free by Motley Fool. What they attempt to do is get you to pay more to get the "really good stuff". I decided to not renew because I felt like I was being used. The problem is I just got charged $199.00 for a service which I no longer want nor read. I wish I never subscribed in the first place. Live and Learn.

Lost so much money with Montley Fool! Since I started, here is the 10 stocks I invested (5 based on Fool Premium recommendations): AAPL (+13.19%) NIO (-6.5%) FVRR (-29.96%) – Fool Premium recommendation SKLZ (-42.22%) – Fool Premium recommendation BTCC-U (+19.24%) MSFT (+11.97%) ATVI (-25.36%)– Fool Premium recommendation BRKB (-2.92%) DIS (-15.91%)– Fool Premium recommendation PINS (-49.08%)– Fool Premium recommendation

Your recommendations have been very helpful providing clearly stated reasons why you favor certain stocks and very forward thinking spotting trends. I was one of those who on your recommendation bought Zoom last January, first for my mom's portfolio, and then subsequently for mine although I was nervous purchasing mine at $107. while my mother got hers at $87.00. Always a leap of faith. $372 value as of Friday. A number of the stocks you have recommended are up anywhere from 100%-300+% since the end of 2019. Thank you

Really not impressed with the service. Recommendation are often made on the worst technical time for purchasing. This site is for people who have no clues on how to invest. Only for long term investors. So far in two month I'm minus 15%, thanks only to my stop loss. I'm not so impressed either on the selection with good fundamentals but selected after a very long period of capital gain. I'm still amazed about the video recommending not to use stop loss??? If you hold for your stock for the next five years why not, but to advertise not using this security for experienced investors? Definitely for begginers who don't mind loosing money short term. Not worth the expense. Advertising on their past result. But again was it worth paying to know investing in google and amazon 10 years ago was a nul brainner?

I was convinced to buy multiple "products" from the Motley Fool under the premise that they would be providing unique recommendations. Unfortunately, the products had significant overlap in their recommendations. It seems that Motley Fool takes recommendations from their core services and just repackages them under different themes. Once I realized this, I asked for either a refund or even a credit to another service that they indicated that had less overlap. This request was responded to by a canned message that lacked any kind of acknowledgement of my issue. Since them I've ensured all my services have been taken off auto-renew. I'll be ceasing all my services once each of my memberships have expired.

I got my first “75% off” offer rom Motley Fool about 2 months ago. First, I wanted to subscribe. After all what is $49.99 when you are talking about stock market investment? But they kept bombarding me every day with several emails with their last and final 75% off offer. It was too pushy and looked too fishy. I don’t have a reason to doubt Motley Fool give good advises but for me they give too many of them. Maybe they should consider adjusting their sale strategy. And what I really want to know is: if they were so smart to buy Amazon, Netflix, Disney and other stocks that grew thousands of percent why are they so poor to still want my $49.99 per year?

I have been a member of The Motley Fool off and on for well over a decade. While I have not always followed their advise (yes I kick myself regularly), I have been privy to several well thought out buys that I thought made a lot of since that I wish now I had followed their advise on. What I am trying to say is, after trying several different sources. These guys are the best as far as providing well thought out companies to invest in, as well as suggesting to Hold Over Time. Please Investors, stay for the long run. Don't be like me and take short term gains and loose out big winners over time.

It's went down hill over the years, I reluctantly, renewed this year but probably won't next year. I HATE that they now use videos for so much. I want to read an article on new picks not watch a video. It is inconvenient and I don't have time to wade thru a video and it's difficult to find things in it and if you miss a word it's horrible. I just got an email invite to the new 'community' forums, it won't let me use them says my subscription is not good. I would not expect to have to now suddenly start paying for the forums when I have a Fool subscription.