Cabot Stock of the Week 359
The bull market is alive and well, with major indexes hitting new highs just last week.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1477
Can Growth Break Free From the Chop?
In our opinion, there are three main things about the market that make it difficult for most investors to succeed. The first is its contrary nature—oftentimes, many of the same qualities that help you succeed in the world...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
A crazy earnings season meets a sideways market. Investors have been looking for a narrative that gains traction. Maybe earnings will provide it.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
The stock market reached yet another record high on Monday, but it just doesn’t seem the same as earlier records. Investors (and everyone else) is starting to wonder if Covid is now endemic – an inherent component of everyday life. Will cases surge the...
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Cabot Stock of the Week 358
When I wrote to you last Monday, stocks were having their worst day since March, and looked primed for a more sustained pullback. Since then, they’ve gone nowhere but up.
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Cabot Growth Investor Bi-weekly Update
The market is mixed so far today—as of 1145 am, the Dow is off 44 points and the Nasdaq is up 25 points, though many growth stocks are again acting well. In recent issues and updates we’ve written repeatedly about the market’s on-again, tricky...
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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 Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Last week, we wrote about how the damp Boston-area weather matched the soggy stock market. Pressing our literary luck today, the market is following another New England weather meme: “if you don’t like the weather, wait a few minutes.”
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Cabot Stock of the Week 357
The bull market is alive and well, with major indexes hitting new highs in recent days. However, growth stocks in particular have been hit hard recently, and that requires some selling.
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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 Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
In the Boston area, we’ve had nearly 8 inches of rain so far this month. This 0.7 inches-per-day average compares to the 0.6 inches-per-day average for a monsoon rainforest, the type found in the tropics along the equator. Sounds a lot like the mood...
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Cabot Stock of the Week 356
The broad market will stop going up and start going down. And while I will continue to recommend one stock per week, I will recommend that you be more cautious about buying, that you be less patient with underperformers, and that you take more...
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Cabot Growth Investor Bi-weekly Update
The major indexes got hit today, though damage among growth stocks wasn’t too bad. At day’s end, the Dow was off 260 points while the Nasdaq slid 105 points.
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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 Stock of the Week 355
Today’s recommendation is a big fast-growing technology company that you may not have heard of, but that has had a huge impact on the lives of Asian consumers.
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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 Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
In our continuing series on deciding how many positions to hold in a stock portfolio, let’s borrow a page from Major League Baseball (MLB). The methods that these teams use managing their players can be applied to investment portfolios.
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Cabot Stock of the Week 354
In recent weeks, growth stocks, which had underperformed for a few months, have looked increasingly healthier, and today I’m happy to recommend a young one in the life sciences industry with a strong chart and great growth potential.
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Cabot Growth Investor Bi-weekly Update
There remain a few yellow flags in this environment, especially as many indexes are chopping around and trends in individual stocks and sectors remain fleeting. But there’s no question that the action in growth stocks has improved, so we’re going to put a more...
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