A Little Cautious
The good news is that our portfolio is well in the black for the year, thanks to strong performances by all four of our U.S. multi-state operators, our REIT (IIPR) and our hydroponics retailer (GRWG). (Readers who held GRWG before second-quarter were...
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Back in the Black
The broad market is strong, but the marijuana sector is even stronger, with six of our stocks hitting new recovery highs this week, and another hitting an all-time high last week!
The reasons for this strength are numerous.
First, after a two-year market...
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Buying Opportunities
The last few weeks have brought a much-needed market correction—much-needed because after advancing for eleven weeks from the COVID-19 bottom, the market was extended, and some segments of the investing world were positively giddy. But now that the correction has done its capped...
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This summer, our annual Cabot Wealth Summit moves online. Here's what to expect from our annual investor conference, this August 18-20.
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The Trend Strengthens!
Canada was first, but the U.S. will dominate. That’s not exactly a surprise, but the evidence is now piling up, most recently in the form of some terrific first quarter reports by U.S. marijuana companies while the Canadians continue to cut and...
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The Trend Turns Up
First, I want to welcome our many new readers, who joined following our 4/20 promotion. My goal is to help you develop long-term winning investments in the leaders of this mass-market growth industry.
But it won’t be easy. Sometimes these stocks red-hot;...
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Uncharted Territory—But We Have A Compass
As of Monday, we’d experienced the market’s quickest 30% drop ever. Just 22 days from top to bottom.
Yesterday, the Dow had its best up day in 87 years—up 11%!
And tomorrow?
Well, as the headline says, we’re in uncharted territory. one...
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Where’s The Bottom?
I’ve been through a lot of nasty markets in the 34 years I’ve spent at Cabot—some of them infamous, like 1987 and 2000 and 2008, and some of them less so, like 1990 and 1997 and 2002—and while I can’t say found...
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Cabot Wealth Network turns 50 this year! This is the story of how Cabot came to be - and how we're still making money for our readers five decades later.
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Coronavirus Takes Center Stage—and Marijuana Stocks Don’t Care!
I’m in no way a medical professional, so I have nothing useful to say about coronavirus that you haven’t heard elsewhere. But I do have a few thoughts on how the market has reacted to this than...
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During any market drop, you might ask, "Should I sell my stocks?" Here are a few guidelines on when to sell stocks and when to hold them.
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If you want to spread out your dividend payments, an ex-dividend date calendar is a handy way to keep track of all your payments. Here's how it works.
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To Answer the Question, "What is Growth Investing," Let's Look at the Most Desirable Characteristics of Growth Stocks
When someone is asking, "what is growth investing," they usually want to know what kinds of stocks are considered growth stocks. However, growth stocks are ever-changing, if...
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Ready For The Big Rebound
The end of the year always brings opportunities for investors who want to speculate on which stocks will rebound best, and this year, there’s no question that cannabis stocks, which are down 46% since the start of the year, near...
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The Smart Money is Moving In
It’s common knowledge among experienced investors that the price of a company’s stock, at any one time, is imperfectly related to the company’s actual value.
Other factors that affect the price include estimates of the company’s future revenues, earnings profit...
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Be Not Afraid
One year ago, soon after marijuana sales became legal in Canada, investors were throwing money at the sector, anxious to get a piece of the action. Today, the opposite is true—getting money for a cannabis business takes real work!
That was my takeaway...
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Lots of Crosscurrents!
The good news is that yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the SAFE Banking Act (the acronym stands for "Secure and Fair Enforcement"), which would shield banks and other financial institutions from being held liable for serving businesses...
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Buying Opportunity
It’s been rather frustrating to see cannabis stocks falling day after day, week after week, while the companies’ quarterly reports (with the exception of Canopy Growth) continue to reveal that business is booming. But that’s how the market works.
First, cannabis stocks attracted slew...
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Bad News Bears
The stock market in general is quite healthy, with the major indexes at or near their highs, and all Cabot’s market timing indicators positive.
But the cannabis sector is still weak.
Part of this weakness stems from the fact that cannabis was the sector...
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Cooling Off
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This picture of the Marijuana Index tells a story that be summed up in fourteen.
From January through March, marijuana stocks were hot.
Since then, they’ve been cooling off.
The reasons for the strength were From...
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