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Tom Gardner

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

They're basically laying the cement for data centers and just made a great acquisition in Texas.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

Their CEO, Joe Cotillo, who we also interviewed, one of my favorite interviews, really, I would say, in Motley Fool history.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

Somebody who would put a $5,000 investment in the company back then would be sitting on over a half million dollars right now from that investment.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

So that's somebody who's delivered excellence for the last decade, and I think he's gonna deliver great things in the next decade as the data center build-out continues.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

And finally, in the riskiest across the continuum is Rocket Lab, ticker symbol RKLB.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

New Zealander Sir Peter Beck founded the company.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

He was building jet bikes when he was 11 in a remote area in New Zealand.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

And he stuck with that vision and that passion throughout his entire life.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

He's built a company now with about a market cap of $20 billion.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

If you look at the valuation of Rocket Lab versus the S&P and most other companies across any market in the world, you're going to say, that is so overpriced.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

But

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

Rocket Lab is a really exciting company to follow.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

And I think even if you're only gonna buy a share, I think it's a good idea to be a shareholder of an exciting business like this that's so very well run and so innovative.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

And in the first quarterly call, episode one, we had five stocks.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

They've all done reasonably well.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

I mean, the markets have done well, but I think we're happy with our first five stocks.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

And so we're sticking with them, definitely.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

I mean, these ideas that I'm putting forward, these are five-year holding periods that I'm suggesting for these companies.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

And the companies are AbbVie, Bitcoin, Unity Software, TJX Companies.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
Motley Fool Co-Founder Tom Gardner: The Quarterly Call

and Kindrel.