Emily Flippen | Source | Senior Analyst at The Motley Fool (US)

Go to https://www.Fool.com/MJ to get our Marijuana Investing Playbook -- it's got everything you need to know and 3 stocks to watch! For a while there, it seemed like the market had reefer madness. But after the build-up of the past few years, some marijuana stocks have struggled to live up to the expectations that come with a market some estimate could be worth over $60 billion by 2025. If you follow mega-trends, you know this is all part of the hype cycle -- big numbers lead to huge expectations, and huge expectations lead to impatient investors. But billion-dollar businesses aren’t built overnight. Thankfully for smart investors, some of the best marijuana stocks are currently available at a steep discount. And there are some backdoor marijuana plays that have quietly been putting up great returns even as others have fallen. That’s all to say we’re still watching pot, and we’re...

Emily Flippen, investment strategist at The Motley Fool discusses Blue Apron's reveal that its considering a sale of itself.

That which humans collect, we have a natural urge to categorize. Books, rocks, baseball cards, whatever -- and stocks are no different. Some we classify as “growth stocks,” because their revenues -- and, hopefully -- earnings are rising relatively rapidly. Others are viewed as “value stocks,” because based on the fundamentals, they look underpriced.If the business has been in the habit of distributing solid, often rising dividends, it might get called an "income stock." And then there are "story stocks” -- the ones that are trading less on their current numbers, and more on the narrative that investors and the media have built to describe why eventually, the revenue and earnings will surely arrive. Paint a compelling enough picture, and investors will bid your company up on hope and faith. But Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner sometimes takes a different view of the “story” concept -- he prefers to think...