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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

September 27, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

I’m going to go off on a little tangent this week to share something with you that I think will help put this market, and the action in our stocks, into context.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

September 20, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

For the first time in a while we’ve had a relatively calm week. On average, our portfolio is unchanged from last Thursday’s close.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

September 13, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

Looking at the broad market, it seemed like a calm week. Even a good week! The S&P 500 moved up near all-time highs and even the languishing S&P 600 Small Cap Index broke out of its funk and shot up near 2019 highs the...
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The Best Cloud Software Stocks

From the issue of |by Tyler Laundon|Small-Cap Stocks

Cloud software stocks are on a tear, and these three have particularly good-looking charts. Any one of them would be worth a flier.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

August 30, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

This is one of those periods when there’s not much going on in the market. Earnings season is essentially over, the summer is winding down, kids are about to go back to school and it feels like fall is right around the corner.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

August 23, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

With earnings season largely over most of our stocks are now moving based on news that affects the broad market, and less on company-specific trends, with a few exceptions.
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This Argentina Stock Market Crash Was a Long Time Coming

From the issue of |by Chris Preston|Emerging Markets

Last week's near-record Argentina stock market crash was a long time coming. It's a lesson in what red flags to look for when investing in emerging markets.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

August 16, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

The big news that affected the market this week was, of course, the dreaded yield curve inversion. This happens when the 10-year Treasury yield goes below the 2-year yield.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

August 9, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

The market has been up, down and all over the place lately. So have our stocks. Oddly enough, from last Thursday’s close through yesterday’s close our portfolio is relatively unchanged—down just 2% using a simple average of each stock’s weekly return.
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The 10 Best Large-Cap Growth Stocks of 2019 (So Far)

From the issue of |by Chris Preston|Growth Stocks

The 10 best large-cap growth stocks of 2019 so far all have doubled already this year - evidence of how strong a year it's been for the market.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

July 26, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

Our portfolio is outperforming the index by roughly 100%, on average. But we’re not the only ones. Many targeted mutual funds are also demolishing the Russell 2000 Small Cap Index.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

July 19, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

This week marks the beginning of the second-quarter earnings season. I don't foresee any major changes in the trends in any of our companies, but stock price reactions and trends don't always line up in the short term.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

July 12, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

This week’s market recap is a familiar story—the major big-cap market indices are doing great! But the small cap index is still wallowing in the mud.
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks 322

From the Wall Street's Best Dividend Stocks 322 issue of Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks|by sueh|Dividend Stocks

Congrats to the Top Picks 2019, Mid-Year Congratulations to our Top Picks for 2019! We’re halfway through the year, and the markets are doing great—and so are our Top Picks! The Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained 11.8%; the S&P 500 is up 14.3%, the...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

June 28, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

Not surprisingly, this week wasn’t a great one for our portfolio. I had a feeling the party was winding down last week, when we had an average gain of 105% going and had just seen our stocks pop an average of 6% over days...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

June 21, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

This was another one of those weeks where you look at what the S&P 500 did—up 1.5% to a 52-week high—and you look at what the S&P 600 Small Cap Index did—up 1% to 945 and back above its 50-day line, but well its...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

June 14, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

With the market having come back strong since its swift retreat in early June the immediate threat of a larger correction has diminished. The S&P 500 index is back above its 50-day line and within a couple percentage points of its all-time high.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

May 31, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

Altogether it felt like a calm week. Considering the worsening performance of the S&P 600 Small Cap Index, which broke below its comfort zone, and the S&P 500, now 6% off its high, our portfolio’s resiliency continues to stand out.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

May 24, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

Looking at the broad market we see that the S&P 500 is just 4% off its recent high, has thus far held above support around 2,800 and remains above its long-term (200-day) moving average line. The Nasdaq dipped to its May 13 low 7,627,...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

May 17, 2019|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

This is a great time to be invested in these stocks, clearly. And I hope the trend continues. But I do think we have a missing ingredient before we can feel super confident that these gains will stick. And that ingredient is more from...
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