Blue-Chip Stock

Finance a la shmoop, what is a blue-chip? Alright people think kids, plastic, poker

chipset, remember those cheap plastic poker chips? [Someone looking at their cards]

Yeah the the whites were supposed to be a penny [The money equivalents of the chips are shown]

the Reds were a nickel and the Blues the most highly valued chips in the set well

they were worth a dime and that's where the name came from the highly valued

blue chip and it refers to high-quality, highly valued companies Disney, Coke and [Logos of the blue chip companies]

in today's world Google, Amazon, Shmoop alright maybe not Shmoop. All right but

the rest of those companies are blue chips which have a long track record of [Blue chip stamp]

growing profits if not revenues for a very long period of time and they have

corporate cultures that are all about winning [People playing poker with their heads replaced by briefcases with company logos on them]

whatever game they're in so go blue, well sure them too... [Football player is tackled]