Cabot Prime Week Ending December 27, 2019
Stock Recommendation Tracker
The Stock Recommendation Tracker is a table that features all of the current recommendations in all of our portfolios. It’s a quick way for you to see what stocks are currently in our portfolios and will highlight new additions or any changes to our recommendations over the previous week. We include this table at the bottom of the Weekly Summary, and provide a link here at the top to the Stock Recommendations Tracker.
Cabot Weekly Review (Video)
In this week’s stock market video, Mike Cintolo talks about the market’s current position—short-term extended, but the recent rally bodes well for the longer-term—and reviews a bunch of leaders to target either now (as they tighten up) or going forward (when they inevitably pull back).
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Bi-weekly Update December 26: Remain bullish. The bull market rolls on, and while there are legitimate shorter-term yellow flags (a good reason to be choosy on the buy side), the big-picture outlook is solid. Mike has no changes in the Model Portfolio today.
Bi-weekly Issue December 19: The market remains in great shape, and bigger picture, Mike continues to expect good things in 2020. Near-term, he’s finally seeing a few signs of complacency, so some rocky trading is likely at some point; being choosy on the buy side makes sense. In tonight’s issue, Mike is adding one half-sized position in Sea Ltd. (SE) to the Model Portfolio; that will leave us with 17% in cash, which he’s looking to put to work as opportunities arise. He also reviews three initial lessons learned from this year, highlights some intriguing names that are setting up well and gives you his latest thoughts on all our holdings. There is one portfolio change: Dexcom (DXCM) is moving back to Buy from Hold.
Other Stocks of Interest December 20: Follow ups to stocks featured August 1, 2019 (issue 1425) to December 19, 2019 (issue 1435). Since many of the stocks written about in Other Stocks of Interest don’t make their way into the Model Portfolio, you won’t see them followed on a regular basis in the issues. However, we are monitoring these stocks, and this listing gives you a quick view of our latest thoughts. Feel free to email me directly (mike@cabotwealth.com) with any questions/comments you have.
Cabot Top Ten Trader
Movers & Shakers December 27: Mike is bullish, but he’s stepping a bit carefully right this second, realizing that many stocks could easily take a breather going forward—that means picking your spots on the buy side and/or starting with small positions, and considering taking a partial profit or two when offered. Mike’s buy ideas today are: Murphy USA (MUSA) and Splunk (SPLK). He has three sells today: Incyte (INCY), Lithia Motors (LAD) and Pelaton (PTON).
Weekly Issue December 16: The overall market remains in good shape—the intermediate-term trend is firmly up, the number of stocks hitting new highs is expanding and many longer-term studies tell us that 2020 is likely to be another solid year. That said it’s not all peaches and cream out there—short-term, huge number of new highs often leads to some retrenchment, and Mike is also seeing a bit more divergent action among individual stocks, with some growth titles hitting potholes while investors rotate elsewhere. None of that is “bad,” per se, but it is a reminder to honor and update your stops as time goes by, and to take a couple of partial profits if you score a decent profit. This week’s list has a wide variety of newer names, from construction to precious metals to biotech to chips. Mike’s Top Pick is Synaptics (SYNA), which has the makings of an intriguing turnaround as it’s riding a few powerful growth trends.
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Weekly Update December 24: Crista previously gave you a heads up that new low-sulfur diesel regulations (IMO 2020) and a serious hog disease in China (African Swine Fever) are quite likely to increase inflation numbers in 2020 and beyond. Are you ready for the next sweeping industrywide change that will be hitting the credit markets? A new accounting standard called Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) will impact businesses that loan money, beginning in January 2020. The rule requires such businesses — including banks, credit card companies that pair with department stores to loan money, and financing companies – to set aside reserves to cover projected loan losses right up front, at the time the loan is made. Crista has no portfolio changes today.
Monthly Issue December 3: LGI Homes (LGIH) joins the Buy Low Opportunities Portfolio today and Quanta Services (PWR) rejoins the Growth Portfolio. Additionally, Crista says goodbye to CIT Group (CIT), which continues to have a slightly-improving price chart, but the 2020 earnings growth prospects are too dismal to remain in the Growth Portfolio. Other changes today are: Blackstone Group (BX) moves from Strong Buy to Hold and Universal Electronics (UEIC) moves from the Buy Low Opportunities Portfolio to the Growth Portfolio.
Cabot Stock of the Week
Weekly Issue December 17: The major indexes continue to hit new highs, all Cabot’s market timing indicators remain positive and our portfolio is solid overall—though Tim is downgrading three stocks to Hold today for various reasons. As for today’s new recommendation, Disney (DIS), a dividend-paying Wall Street Blue Chip—that Mike Cintolo says has great growth potential because of its new business. Tim has three stocks today that are moving from Buy to Hold: Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), TopBuild (BLD) and Trulieve (TCNNF).
Cabot Global Stocks Explorer
Bi-weekly Issue December 26: All Explorer positions except Grupo Televisa (TV) advanced this past week and the emerging markets timer (EEM) is positive in an uptrend and above both its 20-day and 50-day moving averages. Carl’s recommendation today is Cosan Ltd. (CZZ), a company showing some relative strength that offers a nice blend of emerging growth and Western management. It’s a business with a diversified portfolio of fuel distribution, sugar production, ethanol and electricity, rail transportation and warehousing as well as the distribution of natural gas.
Bi-weekly Update December 19: Carl writes that we are so accustomed to looking at stocks and markets day by day that we sometimes miss the big trends as well as opportunities. In a chart of the S&P 500 since 1990 he shows how extraordinarily long this bull market has run over the last decade since its recovery after the global financial panic. This raises the question—what can we expect from 2020 to 2030? No one knows of course and he hopes that our bull run continues but it might be smart to move some cash into markets that have been lagging. Carl has one portfolio change today: Icici (IBN) moves from Buy a Half To Hold a Half.
Cabot Dividend Investor
Monthly Issue December 18: In this issue, Tom highlights an outlier in the marijuana industry, Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR). The company is actually a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) that takes much less risk than most of the other sector stocks and benefits from the simple fact that more marijuana will continue to be grown in the years ahead. The company is already making money and earnings continue to grow at a rapid clip. Also, the Invesco BulletShares 2019 Corporate Bond ETF (BSCJ) has matured. The final day of trading was on Monday, December 16
Weekly Update December 11: Tom likes the way the Cabot Dividend Investor portfolio is positioned right now. It has several REITs and Utilities that continue to benefit in the current environment, value stocks that offer bargains and new found momentum, and opportunities to benefit from strong growth where it is still powerful. He has one portfolio change today: Alexandria Real Estate Equities moves from Buy to Hold.
Cabot Marijuana Investor
Monthly Issue December 26: Generally, pruning losers and weak stocks and replacing them with strong stocks is the recipe for success. Tim added two new stocks to the portfolio last week, and if you feel underinvested in cannabis stocks, you can add any of the stocks that look attractive. But the portfolio still has 25% in cash, waiting until the sector strengthens, and he expects that to be soon!
Update December 19: Because the portfolio’s cash position is now 43% and Tim believes that’s too high as we enter the new year, he’s adding two new stocks to the portfolio and averaging up in others. He’ll initiate new 4% positions in GrowGeneration (GRWG) and Planet 13 (PLNHF); both stocks are rather lightly traded, so be careful and take your time. He’ll put an additional 4% in both Canopy Growth (CGC) and Cresco Labs (CRLBF). And he’ll put an additional 2% in Trulieve, which went through the wringer on Tuesday.
Cabot Early Opportunities
Monthly Issue December 18: In this month’s Issue of Cabot Early Opportunities Tyler takes a closer look at recent recommendations and evaluates their Q3 earnings reports. He also shows why he thinks the Small cap index is going higher in the near term. And he features five early-stage growth stocks going after totally different markets that look poised to deliver big gains in 2020 and beyond. His top pick this month is LeMaitre Vascular (LMAT), a Massachusetts-based medical device company with a market cap of $710 million.
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Frequently Asked QuestionsWeekly Issue December 17: The Stock – Pan6American Silver (PAAS) Precious metal stocks (and their underlying commodities) have become a mixed bag, especially with some global uncertainties seemingly cleared up, but Pan American Silver is pushing ahead nonetheless thanks to some company-specific catalysts in addition to higher gold and silver prices. As the name suggests, the company is one of the larger silver mining outfits in the world.
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Monthly Issue December 18: We’ve had a decent month in the markets—despite all the impeachment hoopla. It looks like the China trade issue is improving, housing starts and building permits are healthy, and unemployment remains low. Sounds like the making of a great holiday season! Nancy begins this issue with her Spotlight Stock, General Dynamics Corporation (GD), a company that has been in business for 67 years, residing in the defense and aerospace sectors. As as she notes in her Feature article, both of those arenas are experiencing fantastic growth, which bodes well for GD.
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Question: Thank you for the excellent option service you provide.Do you have any insight into the recent movement in the price of gold. I have traded NUGT with covered calls all of last year mostly on a weekly basis. but it looks like gold has broken out of the 27-29 base.Best to you and yours for a happy and healthy new year.
Jacob:I have to be honest, I have never had a great grasp on the price movement of Gold and Silver. Though I have noticed aggressive call buying in both the last two weeks, and I do own a PAAS covered call in Cabot Profit Booster that is doing very well based on Mike Cintolo’s Top Ten recommendation.I wish I had a great macro explanation for the recent strength in GLD/SLV but I have yet to find one .. though it also could just be a case of end of the year rotation.
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Stock Recommendations Tracker
The table below lists all of the stocks held in any Cabot portfolio.
Updated or revised recommendations from the past week are in purple text.
Stocks added to a portfolio are highlighted in green text.
Closed stock positions in the past week are highlighted in red text.
| Stock | Cabot Global Stocks Explorer | Cabot Growth Investor | Cabot Marijuana Investor | Cabot Stock of the Week | Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor | Cabot Dividend Investor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABBV | Buy | |||||
| ACB | See Advisory | |||||
| ADBE | Buy | |||||
| ALXN | Strong Buy | |||||
| AMZN | Strong Buy | |||||
| ANF | Buy | |||||
| APHA | See Advisory | |||||
| APPS | Hold | |||||
| ARE | Hold | Hold | ||||
| AVGO | Strong Buy | |||||
| BABA | Buy | |||||
| BAND | Hold | |||||
| BIP | Hold | Hold | ||||
| BKR | Buy | |||||
| BLD | Hold | |||||
| BSCJ | Buy 1/2 | |||||
| BSCL | Buy 1/2 | |||||
| BX | Hold | |||||
| C | Buy | Buy | ||||
| CCI | Buy | |||||
| CF | Sold | |||||
| CGC | See Advisory | |||||
| CHCT | Hold 1/3 | |||||
| CRAK | Strong Buy | |||||
| CRLBF | See Advisory | |||||
| CRON | See Advisory | |||||
| CTVA | Buy | Buy | ||||
| CURLF | See Advisory | |||||
| CZZ | Buy 1/2 | |||||
| DBI | Hold | Hold | ||||
| DBSDY | Buy 1/2 | |||||
| DIS | Buy | |||||
| DOCU | Buy | |||||
| DOW | Buy | |||||
| DXCM | Buy | |||||
| EPD | Buy | Buy | ||||
| EQH | Strong Buy | |||||
| FCX | Buy 1/2 | |||||
| GES | Strong Buy | |||||
| GRWG | See Advisory | |||||
| GTBIF | See Advisory | |||||
| HTHT | Hold | |||||
| IBN | Sell | |||||
| IIPR | See Advisory | Buy | ||||
| IPHI | Buy | Buy | ||||
| LGIH | Strong Buy | |||||
| LK | Buy 1/2 | Buy | ||||
| MCY | Buy | |||||
| MEDIF | See Advisory | |||||
| MO | Buy | |||||
| MOS | Hold | |||||
| MPC | Strong Buy | |||||
| MRVL | Buy 1/2 | |||||
| NEE | Hold | Hold 1/2 | ||||
| NVCR | Buy 1/2 | |||||
| OGI | See Advisory | |||||
| OKTA | Hold | |||||
| PDD | Hold | |||||
| PGX | Buy 1/2 | |||||
| PLNHF | See Advisory | |||||
| PWR | Strong Buy | |||||
| QCOM | Buy | |||||
| QRVO | Buy | Buy | ||||
| RIO | Buy | |||||
| RKUNY | Buy 1/2 | |||||
| RNG | Hold | |||||
| SE | Buy 1/2 | Buy 1/2 | ||||
| SLB | Buy | |||||
| SNAP | Hold | |||||
| SPCE | Buy a Half | Buy | ||||
| SSO | Buy | |||||
| STAG | Hold | |||||
| TCNNF | See Advisory | Hold | ||||
| TDOC | Buy | |||||
| TOT | Buy | |||||
| TPB | See Advisory | |||||
| TSLA | Hold | |||||
| TSN | Strong Buy | |||||
| TV | Hold 1/2 | |||||
| UEIC | Buy | |||||
| VLO | Buy | |||||
| VOYA | Strong Buy | |||||
| VRTX | Buy | |||||
| XEL | Hold 2/3 |