Fool's School
Those Darn 12b-1 Fees
It's a fact of life: Mutual funds charge fees. A fund's "expense ratio" (representing its operating expenses and management fees) is one way to get a handle on its overall annual fee bite, but it's good to poke around and learn more. Full Story
Name That Company
Founded in 1869 in New York by a German immigrant and his son-in-law, I became one of America's largest private companies. I went public in 1999. Full Story
The Motley Fool Take
Western Union
It isn't all bad news for financial services companies. Sure, the debt markets are rattled, the mortgage industry has run out of steam, and banking giants are flirting with disaster, but money-transfer powerhouse Western Union (NYSE: WU) will hear nothing of it. Full Story
My Dumbest Investment
An Accidental Wizard
My granddaughter was born in July 2001. We bought her every imaginable thing that featured Winnie the Pooh and other Disney characters. I was sending so much money to Disney and figured all the other new baby boomer grandparents were doing the same thing. So without doing any other analysis, I dumped the biggest dog in my portfolio, Enron, and bought Disney. Full Story
Last week's trivia answer
I was founded in 1969 and closed my first year with 53 employees and 18 products, but no sales. Today, my annual sales top $6 billion, and I employ more than 16,000 people. I'm No. 2 in the microprocessor industry, with market share topping 12 percent. I like to make Intel work hard. My partners include Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun and Toshiba. Full Story
Ask the Fool
A Brain Teaser?
Q How can a lower-priced stock be called more expensive than a higher-priced stock? - T.K., Champaign, Ill. A It's because a stock's price alone is close to meaningless. To draw useful conclusions, you need to compare it to something else, such as sales, earnings, cash flow, etc. Full Story
What Is This Thing Called The Motley Fool?
Remember Shakespeare? Remember "As You Like It"? In Elizabethan days, Fools were theonly people who could get away with telling the truth to the King or Queen. The Motley Fool tells the truth about investing, and hopes you'll laugh all the way to the bank. Full Story
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