This portfolio stock has just pulled Q1 2020 guidance, saying revenue will be roughly 35% to 45% below the low end of its prior revenue guidance ($47 million) due to global disruptions from COVID-19.
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The past week has seen the market rocket higher on hopes for a massive $2 trillion economic stimulus plan that would try to help consumers and businesses get through the tunnel of productivity and financial devastation that this pandemic has created.
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As financial markets begin to thaw, global leaders build consensus on how to address this pandemic, options of potential interim treatments for Covid-19 surface and the framework of economic relief starts to firm up (even though it won’t be enough), the stock market be...
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We’re taking another incremental step to focus our portfolio today by selling one more stock.
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We’ve just been through a harrowing period in the stock market and the path forward remains uncertain.
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To say that the coronavirus has infected the stock market would be to state the obvious. Less obvious is the answer to the question; what’s the antidote?
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There aren’t a lot of bright spots out there in today’s market but one datapoint I thought worth sharing is this: Heading into today the average return of our positions was 15% better than that of the S&P 500 Index over a comparable frame...
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The Big Idea
Any time you have a fragmented market where there are a lot of buyers and sellers that have a hard time getting together there is an opportunity for a software-enabled marketplace to grease the wheels of commerce.
We’ve seen this concept work emerging...
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The market has been tripped up by what seems to be an overreaction to the potential economic disruption of the coronavirus, but which is more likely the result of a trifecta of potential issues including coronavirus, a previously elevated market trading at high and...
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The only news anybody seems to care about is the coronavirus. While that’s clearly a concern and not something to take lightly, I don’t think it changes the bigger picture trend that stocks are the place to be over the coming years.
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Regarding the here and now, we’re starting to see signals that we could have a market dip, which would be entirely normal given that it’s only had two small retreats since stocks began racing higher in September.
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Individual stocks continue to move around based on earnings reports and, for the most part, things appear to be quite good. Many management teams aren’t yet sticking their necks out and issuing rosy guidance for 2020, and that’s causing a few dips here there...
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Tyler updates us on four Cabot Early Opportunity Stocks.
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Three portfolio stocks report earnings.
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Back to the market, there’s more good news than bad from my perspective. Employment and hiring are good, the lessening of tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S exports to China is good, interest rates remain low (many economists see a rate cut too)...
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The Big Idea
Fiber optic components are one of the building blocks of high-speed data and communications networks. This market gets a lot of press coverage and investors are generally well aware of fiber optic component suppliers for the telecom and datacom markets.
A lesser but...
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As far as the market goes, there’s no doubt this coronavirus has thrown a wrench into things.
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The market has gotten a little jumpy given the potential impacts of a broader coronavirus outbreak and the trickle of earnings-related announcements, which have the grounding effect of telling us what’s actually going on inside companies these days.
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The message this week is to stay invested but don’t go crazy on the buy side and don’t get scared on the sell side. Just be measured and try not to do anything that’s uncharacteristic of what you would do in a “normal” market.
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The big thing on most investors’ minds is whether or not this market can go higher.
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