What Is a Day Bagger?

By Kristi Waterworth – Updated Dec 13, 2024 at 11:35 AM

Key Points

A "day bagger" is a stock that matches its purchase price in gains within a day.
"Spiffy pop" is a term used for day baggers, but it's a verb, not a noun.
Day baggers signal a potentially successful investment strategy.

Investing is a process that's full of highs and lows -- sometimes the lows are pretty low, but the highs can also be pretty high, like in the case of a day bagger. Find out more about this investing term and what it means to score a day bagger below.

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About the Author

Kristi Waterworth has been a contributing real estate and financial expert at The Motley Fool, covering real estate, investing, and personal finance topics, since 2020. Kristi has been interviewed by various TV media outlets and podcasts for her real estate investing expertise – from residential real estate to digital real estate and everything in between. Kristi’s journalist career spans over 25 years, and she has written about real estate investing, homeownership, and home construction specifically for the last decade. She was also previously a licensed Realtor and general building contractor before the Great Recession and housing market collapse. She holds a bachelor’s degree in American history from Columbia College in Missouri.

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