Calming Words for Investors in the Most Recent Bear Market

Plus, a look at Meta Platforms’ stock and what’s going on with DocuSign.

In this podcast, Motley Fool senior analyst Jason Moser discusses: The pain investors are feeling.

Why he recommends putting cash to work slowly.

The relative attractiveness of DocuSign’s stock.

Plus, shares of Meta Platforms ( META 0.84%) have fallen 50% so far this year. Is the stock a value play, or is it in the bargain bin for valid reasons? Motley Fool contributors Jose Najarro and Nick Rossolillo take a bull vs. bear approach to the social network.

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Chapters Chapters Descriptions descriptions off, selected Captions captions settings, opens captions settings dialog captions off, selected Audio TrackFullscreenThis is a modal window.Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.TextColorWhiteTransparencyOpaqueBackgroundColorBlackTransparencyOpaqueWindowColorBlackTransparencyTransparentFont Size100%Text Edge StyleNoneFont FamilyProportional Sans-SerifReset restore all settings to the default valuesDoneClose Modal DialogEnd of dialog window.Close Modal DialogThis is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. Should you invest $1,000 in Meta Platforms, Inc. right now? Before you consider Meta Platforms, Inc., you’ll want to hear this.Our award-winning analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy right now… and Meta Platforms, Inc. wasn’t one of them.The online investing service they’ve run for two decades, Motley Fool Stock Advisor , has beaten the stock market by 3X.* And right now, they think there are 10 stocks that are better buys. *Stock Advisor returns as of June 2, 2022 This video was recorded on June 13, 2022. Chris Hill: The bear has arrived, but so have reasons for hope. We got that plus a debate over Meta Platforms. Motley Fool Money starts now. I’m Chris Hill, I am joined by Motley Fool senior analyst Jason Moser. Happy Monday. Jason Moser: Happy Monday, indeed. Chris Hill: It’s not really a happy Monday in the [laughs] stock market. Jason Moser: We’re trying to instill some positive vibes, Chris, positive vibes only, as big cat might say. Chris Hill: Yeah, that would be great. But we also need to [laughs] recognize what’s happening in the market, and what’s happening, the headline is appropriate. The headline is hey, the bear market for the S&P 500 is officially here. We’ve got a couple hours before the close of the market today, so maybe it pulls out of the nosedive. But let’s just for the sake of this conversation, let’s assume that it doesn’t. We’re actually officially down more than 20%, where do you want to start? Because I hear the comment of positive vibes only, and yet you and I were talking earlier today in the office, because we’re both in the office today, which is good to say. Jason Moser: Yeah, it feels good. Chris Hill: But we were talking earlier today about the amount of negativity, just the sentiment, all of the commentary, the analysts’ notes coming out, and we’ll get to at least one stock that’s taken a turn for the worse recently, and the negative views on that one particular stock. But just in general, there is so much pessimism, Jason. It’s hard in times like this to feel good as an investor, and it’s hard to feel like, OK, now I am going to be proactive. Even though we know historically, this might be a pretty good time to start looking for ways to deploy cash into the market, even if you’re just doing it through index ETFs. Jason Moser: Yeah. It is clearly a painful time. Again, I want to make sure people understand that. I started out by saying positive vibes only, and of course, you want to do everything you can to try to view things from a glass-half-full perspective. It’s really difficult though, and it’s difficult for us, too. For you, for me, for those of us, that really do this for a living. I’m right there with you, my portfolio has taken a big hit just like everyone else’s. Now, it is a portfolio that I have had for a long time. I’ve had the good fortune to be able to be introduced to Foolish investing many, […]

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