Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The bears sure enjoyed a rare day in the sun on Monday. The Dow had its worst day of the year, down more than 3%. Pessimists haven’t loved life like that since March of 2020.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1476
Can’t Shake the Sellers
Because most of us are long-only players (focusing our time looking at what to buy, not short), we usually think of things from the perspective of buyers. There’s nothing wrong with that, per se—a lot of my commentary and analysis focused...
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Cabot Dividend Investor 721
Remember income? It used to be so easy. But good yields from traditional investments have gone the way of the eight-track tape.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
There is a Fed meeting today. The ultimate oracle of wisdom will bestow their current thinking upon anxious traders.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1475
Still Tricky, Still Challenging—but Also Still Improving
Through the first half of the year, 2021 has been about as tricky as we can remember, at least for growth stock investors. Rotation and news-driven moves have been the norm, with many leading (or formerly leading) titles...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The second quarter ends today. GDP growth is forecasted to be 8.6% for the quarter, one of the best on record. Earnings for the S&P 500 is expected to grow over 60% over last year’s second quarter.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market is hovering at a high level within bad breath distance of the all-time high. But that factoid is deceiving. The market really has not gone anywhere but sideways for about two months.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1474
Still (Mostly) a Meat Grinder
In the last issue we wrote about the baby steps the market had taken since mid-May—it wasn’t anything decisive, but after suffering a ton of damage, growth stocks were slowly improving, with some big-volume rallies, more stocks setting up multi-month...
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AMZN Stock vs. GOOG Stock: Which Is the Better Buy Today?
AMZN stock and GOOG stock are two musts for any portfolio. But which tech behemoth is better positioned for future growth?
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
Sideways is a good thing. The market had a huge recovery from the pandemic and really soared between November and May. After such a rapid move higher in a short amount of time, a correction would be normal.
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Cabot Dividend Investor 621
It’s hard to get away from the current headlines. It’s all about the pandemic and recovery. Lately, they’re throwing in some inflation talk to spice things up.
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10 Highest-Paying Dividend Stocks in the Dow
The 10 highest-paying dividend stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial all yield more than 2.7%. But which of them would I buy today?
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3 Canadian Blue-Chip Stocks Worth Considering
Canada's stock market has lagged behind the U.S. and emerging markets, but these three Canadian blue-chip stocks are bucking that trend.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1473
Baby Steps
Three weeks ago, growth stocks were in ruins, and we don’t think that’s much of an exaggeration—while the Nasdaq was only 8.5% off its high, things like the Russell 2000 Growth Fund (IWO), which we write about later in this issue, sat than...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market continues to stumble sideways. On the one hand, the S&P 500 is within a whisker of the all-time high. On the other hand, stocks have been going sideways for about a month.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market is in nowheresville. The S&P 500 is at the same level it was in early April. But the index isn’t really down. It’s only 1% below the all-time high. It’s not that the market is going down. It just stopped going up.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1472
Biding our Time
It’s been a downer of a three months for growth stocks, so we want to start with a positive note, partially in response to some worried questions we’ve started to get as the sellers really dug in their heels last week: term,...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market’s relentless march ever higher is being interrupted. What’s going on?
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Cabot Dividend Investor 521
The easy money and sky-high returns of the earlier recovery may be over. But the party for income investors is still going strong.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1471
Back in the Soup
During the past month, the way we thought about what was going on was that growth stocks had finally put themselves into a position to get going after a two and a half month stretch of tough, choppy trading. Instead narrow,...
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