Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The Japanese phrase, hara hachi bu, translates into something like “belly 80 percent full,” or “eat until you are eight parts full.”
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THE BIG IDEA
Let’s talk proteins.
Proteins are the large, complex molecules that do the lion’s share of the work in your cells and are essential for all living organisms. They’re made up of hundreds of thousands of amino acids, smaller units that are attached long,...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
We have three changes in the portfolio this week.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
I think we can all use a break from this market, and there’s no new fundamental news related to any of our positions. So today I’m just going speak for a few minutes on the state of the market and small caps.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The major market indexes have been retracing their steps back to their late-October lows. With the trend down, it should come as no surprise that most of our stocks lost ground over the last five trading days, too.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The market’s volatility is a relatively normal correction. But for now, my plan is to keep making incremental moves to try to limit risk and pursue opportunities. Hopefully that will mean a number of positions move back to buy in November but there one...
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A lot of attention is given to the companies that develop blockbuster drugs. Far less attention is paid to those that make the sophisticated manufacturing equipment that allow drugs to be developed, made for clinical trials, then produced at scale when approved.
These...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The market hates uncertainty and it is getting it by the bucket-full right now. If you need a simple explanation for this volatility, that’s it.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The big news this week is that we: (1) recovered some of last week’s losses and (2) have a notable acquisition in the small cap cloud software space.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
I want to cover three things today: (1) possible reasons behind the stock market swoon, (2) what to expect over the next couple of months, and (3) what opportunities to look for both within and beyond our current portfolio.
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THE BIG IDEA
Read slowly. This will take some time to digest.
We are on the verge of a renaissance in the industrial manufacturing industry that will forever change how products are designed, built and introduced to market.
This renaissance is being driven by the same that...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Big picture, things still look reasonably good out there. That said, we’ve seen persistent, but not severe, weakness in small-cap stocks since the beginning of September.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The undercurrents we felt in the market last week bubbled to the surface this week as value-oriented sectors opened a modest performance gap as compared to growth-oriented sectors.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Small caps made no net new progress over the past week but we definitely saw some movement under the surface. This week we’re pulling back just a little given some softening in momentum stocks. A few positions were moved to hold, but for we’re...
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Cabot Small Cap Confidential 232
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Warren Buffett is widely considered one of the best investors in history. Over the last 53 years Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK/A) per-share market value has grown at an average annual rate of 21%. That works out to 10% better, every year, than S&P...
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The size of the market for electronic business-to-business (B2B) payments is hard to wrap your mind around. In the U.S. alone, it’s estimated that current B2B payment volume tops $20 trillion.
That’s a lot of Benjamins exchanging hands.
Even in such a big there’s...
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Cabot Small Cap Confidential 230
THE BIG IDEA
The year was 1956. Peter Pappas, originally from Cyprus, had recently returned to New York City after fighting in the Korean War. Sensing a need for food deliveries to local restaurants, Mr. Pappas teamed up with his cousin and founded the Butter...
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Warby Parker launched in 2010 selling eyeglasses online. With prices starting at just $95, its glasses have always been a lot less expensive than many alternatives out there, especially for buyers used to going through traditional eyeglass channels.
The business came about its...
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You’re as smooth as Tennessee whiskey,
You’re as sweet as strawberry wine,
You’re as warm as a glass of brandy,
And I stay stoned on your love all the time.
- Lyrics from Tennessee Whiskey, originally recorded by David Allen Coe, 1981
A few weeks ago, heard...
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If you’ve spent much time in the United Kingdom you might be familiar with Reading Buses. The company has been transporting passengers in and around Berkshire, England and the greater London area for over a century. Its fleet of 180 brightly single-...
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