Time to Diversify Internationally?

In this occurrence of Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing, Motley Fool contributors Jon Quast, Matt Frankel, and Rachel Warren discuss:

• Magnificent 7 stocks vs. planetary diversification.

• How to diversify into Japan and India.

• Stocks that person mislaid momentum: MercadoLibre and SoFi.

• The menace to SentinelOne from Anthropic’s Mythos.

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We conscionable issued 'double down' alerts connected 3 stocks — find retired if MercadoLibre made our database

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On uncommon occasions, our adept squad of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they deliberation are astir to pop. If you’re disquieted you’ve already missed your accidental to invest, present is the champion clip to bargain earlier it’s excessively late. And the numbers talk for themselves:

• Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 erstwhile we doubled down successful 2009, you’d person $547,669!*

• Apple: if you invested $1,000 erstwhile we doubled down successful 2008, you’d person $59,476!*

• Netflix: if you invested $1,000 erstwhile we doubled down successful 2004, you’d person $463,900!*

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*Stock Advisor returns arsenic of May 26, 2026

This podcast was recorded connected May 25, 2026.

Jon Quast: Is it clip to commencement looking extracurricular the U.S.? This is Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing. Welcome to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing. I'm Jon Quast. I'm joined contiguous by Fool contributors Rachel Warren and Matt Frankel. This is Memorial Day, if you're listening to this, but we're taping a mates of days early, and for that reason, we're not going with the quality of the time oregon thing similar that. We are diving into our mailbag present contiguous successful each 3 segments, and let's conscionable get close into it.

We person a question present from 1 of our listeners who conscionable goes by S, but it says, Dear Fools, the S&P 500 successful a broad-based overseas scale for concern portfolios is often considered bully rules of thumbs for galore investors. The S&P, however, has go progressively concentrated successful the Magnificent Seven. For investors looking to diversify and adhd much idiosyncratic countries to their portfolios, specified arsenic Japan oregon India, for example, however should investors attack investing successful much concentrated overseas investments? Now, earlier we get into this archetypal question here, I privation to constituent retired that the mode it's worded makes it dependable similar determination are 2 opposing approaches. You tin either put successful the Magnificent Seven oregon you tin put internationally, arsenic successful you tin bash 1 oregon both, but you can't bash some astatine the aforesaid time. That's not needfully true, Rachel. You tin invest. This dichotomy doesn't needfully exist.