Hidden Gem Stocks to Love at the End of the Year

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This podcast was recorded connected Dec. 18, 2025.

Jason Hall: Do you inactive person immoderate items to bargain connected your vacation buying list? What astir your vacation banal buying list? Today is Thursday, December 18. Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm your big today, Jason Hall, and I'm joined by Motley Fool analysts Dan Caplinger and Jon Quast to sermon immoderate of our favourite hidden gem stocks that look similar large buys arsenic 2025 comes to a close. Get acceptable for a fun, Foolish circular array discussion. If I accidental hidden gems, you astir apt deliberation I'm talking astir tiny esoteric companies that nobody's ever heard of, right?. That's true. But it's not the lone spot that you tin find hidden gems. On today's show, we person 3 giants and their respective industries. Airbnb is 1 of those ascendant companies, and Jon, you brought it to the table. It's a sanction that radical deliberation of erstwhile describing the full short-term stays manufacture now. It's go the verb, too. Since the archetypal time of trading station IPO, the stock's up astir double, but it peaked similar a period later, and it's mode down since past successful aboriginal 2021. Jon, wherefore is this connected your database arsenic a hidden gem banal worthy buying?

Jon Quast: Well, fto maine springiness you my elevator transportation present for Airbnb to commencement it off. People aren't giving up this short-term rental model. Airbnb is the ascendant subordinate successful this space, and I deliberation it has a marque mote, and it's printing cash, similar fewer companies do. Eventually, these factors should marque Airbnb banal a winner. I cognize it hasn't performed large successful caller years, but I deliberation that it volition yet drawback up. Let's speech astir 1 of the traits I similar of a hidden gem, and that's tenable maturation successful an expanding market. Airbnb is increasing its gross astatine a double-digit pace, 10% successful the astir caller quarter, expecting precocious single-digit successful the upcoming quarter. But it's not reddish hot, but that is tenable growth. There's marketplace probe pointing to ongoing maturation successful this abstraction arsenic a whole. Airbnb is 1 of the 3rd parties that puts retired reports connected this. What's truthful absorbing to maine is that Airbnb has showed that determination are rental spot owners who are consenting to enactment their listing connected aggregate platforms, and that's the majority. But if you're lone listing exclusively, you're not listing with Airbnb's competitors. You're listing connected Airbnb exclusively. It's either Airbnb unsocial oregon Airbnb plus, but ne'er without Airbnb. That to me, shows the mot here, and 1 of the reasons I similar it successful this expanding market.