Analyst · 4 Years at 24/7 Wall St.

Joel South.

Joel South covers large-cap stocks, dividend investing, and major market trends, with a focus on earnings analysis, valuation, and turning complex data into actionable insights for investors.

He brings more than 15 years of experience as an investor and financial journalist, including 12 years at The Motley Fool, where he served as an investment analyst, Bureau Chief, and later led the Fool.com investing news desk. He has also co-hosted an investing podcast and appeared across TV and radio discussing market trends.

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Joel South
Joel South · Washington, DC
2,500+ Articles
Contributor
3 Years
Podcast Host
5 Years
Managing Editor

Top Performing Calls

NVDA Top Call
+3,355%
NVIDIA · still open
TSLA
+2,511%
Tesla · Called April 2016 · still open
PLTR
+263%
Palantir · Called October 2024 · still open

Coverage

Joel South covers market trends, growth stocks and passive income vehicles for 24/7 Wall Street as well as tracking trades from the biggest names in the market.

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Stock Research

  • Focused on finding real businesses worth owning for the long haul, not tickers worth flipping for a quick pop.
02

Dividend Investing

  • Looks for companies that keep raising the dividend even when the headlines say they shouldn't, because getting paid to wait beats getting lucky on timing.

Background

Previously
The Motley Fool · Analyst/ GM 2012-2022

How I Think About Money

  1. 01 The stock market rewards patience and punishes ego in roughly equal measure, and most portfolios are really just a record of which one won that year.
  2. 02 Nobody gets rich reacting to headlines, they get rich owning the businesses that make the headlines irrelevant.
  3. 03 Compounding doesn't feel like anything for a long time, which is exactly why almost nobody sticks around long enough to see it work.

Recommended Resources

Book

Elon Muck: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future ↗︎

Ashlee Vance

Love him or hate him, getting a window into one of the sharpest minds of the millennium is a rare thing.

Book

1929: Inside The Crash

Ross Sorkin

Every bull market says "this time is different." This book looks at the players involved in the 1929 crash, not the backwards looking market dynamics.

Desks

Coverage Desks

1 active desk
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The Billionaires Desk

Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, David Tepper, Jensen Huang. The moves these investors make ripple through markets long before most retail investors hear about them. 24/7 Wall…

Recent Work

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