7investing Team Podcast: Mission Statements and "Bullish or Bearish"

<p>Many businesses exist not just to create profits, but to serve a higher-level purpose.</p> <p>A company's&nbsp;mission&nbsp;statement lays out the ambitions it ultimately wants to achieve. It typically describes a desired improvement to the status quo: whether that be making life easier for customers, innovating with new technologies, or even seeking a bigger-picture societal impact.</p> <p>The&nbsp;mission&nbsp;statement can also influence how the business itself operates. It often serves as the conscience that steers acquisition or capital allocation decisions. It can set a unified company culture that impacts hiring, and can and even can be a guide for specific projects. Examples of famous&nbsp;mission&nbsp;statements include Alphabet's quest "to organize&nbsp;the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful" or Chipotle's goal "to provide food with integrity."</p> <p>We recently put some deeper thought into what role these&nbsp;mission&nbsp;statements should play in our objective investing research. Are there specific things within them -- either good or bad -- that we should pay closer attention to&nbsp;when searching for stock market opportunities?</p> <p>In this month's 7investing Team Podcast, our advisors describe how mission statements influence their investing research. We also provide a few companies whose mission statements are particularly compelling.</p> <p>And in the second segment of our podcast, we play a game of "Bullish or Bearish". Each advisor shares their thoughts about recent developments in an investing space they closely follow.</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/7investing/message Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/7investing/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/7investing/support</a>