The Motley Fool Reviews 9,214

Do NOT use The Motley Fool for financial advice. The advice is mediocre at best and you will receive incessant infomercial-esque emails trying to upsell you to their next "one of a kind" program" for only $500 more...Their marketing is lame and annoying. If someone pays for services, give them the services. Full stop.

I am a Certified Public Accountant: CPA, (USA) and Chartered Certified Accountant: ACCA, (UK) so I can read financials. Motley Fool says no politics in their discussions, yet they allow Musk bashing for supporting Trump or any right of center bashing. I complained and FOOL said they will allow it as he has a lot of power. OK break your own rules. Any post right of center is blocked. Members can slander as TAXACCOUNTANT called me a liar; has no proof or anything and they upheld his post. If they do this, how can I believe their analysts? When I complained I was told I can trust FOOL's analysts as they are unbiased. The administration and the staff are not unbiased: they are pure blatantly biased, so I am supposed trust what the FOOL analyst say? You need to increase your email space as they bombard with this 'if you bought $1k in NVDA in 2004 you be a millionaire up 4000%.' However, they don't mention that FOOL repeatedly said hold on to Disney, Square and PayPal while they went to $250 (I use 25% stop losses so I got out at $180 on all 3 I don't believe in holding dogs for 5 years as they state, 'Hold all stocks minimum 5 years.') Motley Fool rode all 3 down the commode all the way to the depth of Tartarus price of $80 or less. Yes, that is right; $170 down the drain from their highs. (I made around 140% and FOOL nothing or even a loss) Disney they have had a buy and hold on for over a decade and it has done zippo in that time. Their dividend stocks are not dividend stocks as most pay less than 2%. Investopedia even states to be a dividend stock it must pay equal to or more than 3.5%. Funny I bought RGTI, D-Wave, QUBT, IONQ, ARQQ and the rest of the Quantum Computers on my own a few years ago and their up between 1000% & 2000% then they start talking about RGTI when it is at $13 not last year at $0.55. I also had the warrants and they're up 4000%. Motley Fool also said sell Palantir when it was under $35. I held the stock and will not sell it for a while. It went from $12 and now it is north of $115 for 700% plus gain.
There is so much free stock analysis information out there and most brokerage companies allow use of 3-4 major sites as Tip Ranks (has high review on here) S&P or Morningstar and my library gives free access to Value Line. Use the free information and make your own investment choices. Buy what you know.

I swear these sites buy the stocks prior to their analysis and then dump it when the price goes up after their reviews. I never seen an analyst at Fool state that he or his family owns the stock or is shorting it or has options for or against it.

The members are like a cult following that have been zombified. 'Don't complain FOOL states pick 20 stocks and hold the stock for 5 years minimum.' They come at you in droves reiterating that investment nonsense. FOOL has picked a lot of dogs and that is asinine to hold a dog for that period of time. Let the zombie apocalypse hoard hold Disney or PayPal that long to get a 0% return or Upstart with its negative 70% return that Motley Fool and its cult are still promoting as a buy. Upstart needs over a 333% runup just to break even. What FOOLS!

You are a Fool to listen to Motley Fool.

I get frequent newsfeeds from them. I have twice lost lots of money from taking their idiotic advice. Once by buying AMD shares that promptly plummetted and once by selling £50k of Palantir shares due to their "warnings" of a price collapse. The shares have gone up more than 150% subsequently. They are clueless, I would not take any notice of anything they write. They promote large numbers of companies and very occasionally strike lucky. I'd as soon listen to a monkey who would probably achieve a similar level of accurracy.

Their stock recommendations are not good. They sell a worthless service with a high price tag. Very close to a scam!

I've losed a lot of money following their recommendations for two years. The strategy of hold ing the stocks also with big loss is really dangerous. Looking backward, the great majority of their advices are great losers also now. I'm recovering from losses just now, three years after i've stopped with their recommendations and changed strategy. Submerged by their mail asking to upgrade the service. Be aware and don't do it.

I can’t comment on their customer service, but their stock recommendations are garbage. To be fair, I think they recommend including at least 25 of their picks in your portfolio and holding for…10 years is it? I only grabbed about 10 of their picks, but after 4+ years I’m down thousands. Meanwhile, VTI is up about 75% over that span.

This motley crew really lives up to its name. These guys are upsell scammers and try to make fools of their clients. I have paid for their services and discovered that any purchase you make is really just an avenue to upsell. If you buy any service, you'll get an email right away, even before you get the goods, to buy more.

After some frustration, I let my subscriptions lapse. Then recently, I got an email asking if I wanted "five free stock tips". Like a fool I clicked the link but, not wanting to get extra emails in my regular inbox, I used my alternative email address.

Well, I never got the "five free stock tips", they never arrived. Then when I didn't respond to their upsell, they wrote asking "where did you go?" I replied I didn't get the stock tips and got a BS answer that they would be coming (check my junk, etc). Nope, nothing, nada. But here's what I did get...

My email was FLOODED nearly 30 emails! Yup, you read that correctly, in one week. For proof, here are the subject lines of these missives (verbatim):

Hey, where did you go?

Originally $199, yours at no extra charge

In case you missed it [I did not]

Time is running out [clearly untrue]

This one stock is 20,000X smaller than Nvidia

It’s the final countdown [I thought I already missed it?]

In case you missed it [wait, what?]

If you haven’t joined by now… [ya think?]

World’s largest AI is coming to Alberta

Iberta wins race for world’s largest AI

Shark Tank Millionaire Unveils World’s Largest AI

Ready to Learn About the Next Tech Revolution?

Let’s talk about our Tier ZERO Investing Event [let's not]

REVEALED: The Tier ZERO Opportunity [see above]

This Opportunity Isn’t for Everyone—Is It for You? [you don't know already?]

Still Thinking About Quantum Computing? [did I ever say I was?]

Final Hours to Unlock a Game-Changing Report [bs]

Decision Time: Are You In? [never was]

A 6.1% yield, paid monthly {?]

AI’s Next Phase: A Potential 70X Opportunity {more like a potential scam, draining my bank account and filling my inbox]

Missed Nvidia At First? Here’s Your Second Chance

I had to make sure you saw this. {why? why?]

Inside: You'll never guess who invested US$410M in this small company

Inside: Surprise gift for you inside! {I suspect this one will smell worst than the last]

Knock knock [no one is home]

Knock knock [sent his one twice, 12 hours apart]

Are you fast enough? Only 75 spots available! [more like 75,000, unless we find that many suckers, then we'll up the number]

Farewell [this from Iain Butler of Motley Fool, came last night]

Have $$$ resolutions for 2025? Stock Advisor Canada could help. [this came this morning, despite that last one saying "Farewell"]
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If you're still reading, and who can blame anyone who is not, Motley Fool is just a vehicle to hard core upsell and little else. They have ZERO respect for their clients. If they did, they wouldn't do this crap. Frankly, this abuse should be illegal. It's really just a brand of phishing if you think about it.

Unless you want to be insanely harassed online like you've never been in your life, stay away from this company. Don't be made a fool by these motley scam artists!

The Junk button on your email should pop up with the following: "Use to stop crap, like Motley Fool".

Update (Feb 9, 2025): I've now received an additional 18 emails in my Inbox and it doesn't help much to Junk the emails since they come from different people at TMF and/or different emails. I guess I'll just block all their domains info.fool.ca and fool.com Foolish fools.

Update (Feb 14, 2025): I have now totally blocked these Motley emails at 50 emails! They are jamming my Inbox with so much garbage, having never even sent me the first offer that was requested. This is nothing more than an email scraping scam. Unless you like getting a lot of useless emails, avoid these Fools.

I'm in complete agreement with the review by JM, recently posted. Be prepared to be bombarded with multiple emails per day soliciting further subscriptions for even better stock market buys.

Beware - there is NO refund if you subscribe (not even within 24 hours) and do not find their product as expected. After paying $99 fee for an outdated list of generic recommendations, then you are immediately solicited for another $499 fee to unlock the next level access "Epic" for all the more current advice. What's after that level, "Epic Pro" for $1,999/yr or if you're really a fool, there's the "Fool" levels that go from $4k-$14k. Really? Clearly, not for the average Joe despite the click-bait cheap look, feel, and crap content. I'm embarrassed I fell for it.

Also, there is no way to easily disable auto-subscription or cancel account, you have to contact their support. VERY disappointing.

I have paid for Epic. Absolutely not worth it! I have free email newsletter that are more useful.

They keep pushing me to upgrade my membership to get better stock tips, even though I’ve already paid several hundred dollars!

This company is a total scam. They are marketers with notoriously bad advice. I was looking for some long term holds back in 2020. I ignorantly invested around 20k based on their top picks and those stocks are still 80-90% down. What’s even more frustrating is they are now pushing articles to say do not invest in these companies. Absolute BS company. Stay well away

Total scam. Did sign up for some free info and received emails for discounted offerings which was great. Unfortunately everytime I chose to accept an offer the link said the offer had expired despite several being in the offer window, they then tried to charge almost full price. I complained about this business practice and asked to be blocked permanently, a reply was received confirming their actions but it stated if I wanted to give them another go here are their services AT FULL PRICE.

Total scam as cannot get their offered discounts. BUYER BEWARE IF YOU SIGN UP FOR FULL PRICE OFFERINGS

Paid USD $99 annual subscription for promise of great advice on share investing. Instead, I found the "advice" to be quite generic. They put so much hype on AI, you could be fooled into thinking that AI is the only way to invest. I got bombarded with so many email around "Third Wave of AI" that could make me a rich man, but in order to access the specific info, I'd have to pay another USD $300 for the privilege (so-called "Epic" subscription). I didn't go for it.
Even worse, there does not seem to be any way to turn off the automatic renewal. Their FAQ on this topic contained a link to take you to the profile settings page, which does not have anything on turning off automatic renewal.

I joined the Mötley fool, and they talk in circles they recommend one stock one week and then say it's the worst thing you can do the next week, you guys need to make a decision pick stocks that are gonna be good in the future or get out of the business, all you wanna do is sell subscriptions

i have lost money on every position i purchased using this political driven company service, They constantly ask you to upgrade just to steal your money. Avoid this company at all cost, For a profitable experience i have noted a better comp high up on my bio, i wish i had read the reviews

I just signed up today December 29th, 2024. Looking at their recommended stock picks from 2018 thru now I see 110 winners and 58 losers. That equals out to about being right about 65% of the time.Most stock pickers are right about 50% of the time. Going back further from 2002 thru 2017 they had 127 winners and only 9 losers. That is being right 93% of the time. Wonder what happen to those guys picking the stocks? Time to bring those guys back.

Xmas eve said BT shares would double in 2025 now only today they said would avoid BT shares in 2025!!!
Do they know what they are talking about?

By closely following the MF pictures and advice on the number of stocks and their contribution to my portfolio, I lost about 30% of my investments starting in 2020. As the MF recommended, I invested in more than 20 different stocks. Over one-third of them turned out to be ridiculously bad investments, losing more than 80-90% of value in a short time. When these stocks, such as FLGT, were temporarily riding high, the company's owners boasted about their prodigious ability to make the right call. There was complete silence when FLGT and most other MF stock picks tanked. The culture of this company seems to cultivate dishonesty and lack of full disclosure compared to its competitors, such as Seeking Alpha, whose top pics do much better compared to MF. Don't trust these fools,

Like many others I invested in most of the Motley Fool recommendations approximately 3 or 4 years ago. I lost money on every position I purchased using their service. Yes, the market did generally go down during the COVID economy. But a lot of their picks were very inflated. I recommend you stay away from this investment service. XFool

Absolute rubbish. They’re nearly always wrong. Very politically driven, with a hatred of Chinese equities. Even their stock recommendations in the UK stink - they pumped Liontrust and many other that lost 70%. Keep clear of these lame analysts.