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earnings season Archives

What is Earnings Season?

Earnings season happens every quarter, and it’s make-it or break-it time for many companies.

The weeks following the end of every fiscal quarter are known by investors as earnings season. This is when companies release their financial reports for the previous three months, and when investors get to see a company’s earnings. 

You can’t really prepare for earnings season because you can’t predict earnings— a stock’s reaction is mostly a roll of the dice. That’s led to lots of surprises and lots of big stock gaps both up and down. Of course, with volatility comes opportunity, for both profit and loss.

The way earnings season works is that investors compare companies’ results with the “consensus numbers” (an average of the estimates of all the analysts who are following that company). If a company is supposed to make a nickel per share but makes six cents, that’s a beat. Everyone’s happy. If revenue was supposed to top $200 million but the report says $199 million, that’s a miss. Nobody’s happy.

There are a few ways you can handle earnings season:

  1. Ignore earnings reports, and just buy and sell as you normally do. In the long run, this is likely to produce your best results, as good companies in good market environments will, more often than not, react well to their earnings.
  2. Sell part of every growth stock you own before it reports earnings. Believe it or not, this is a decent half-way measure … if you’re running a concentrated portfolio. 
  3. Sell most or all of the shares of a stock you don’t have much profit cushion in.

One last option on the buying side is to stay away from volatile stocks during earnings season. That’s more like gambling than investing.

To learn more and to find out which stocks are most likely to help you weather the market without too much stress, download our free report, 10 Forever Stocks to Buy Now – and How to Find the Best Growth Stocks.

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January 15, 2021|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

Late yesterday Accolade (ACCD) announced it was diving deeper into the telehealth market by acquiring 2nd.MD, a small start-up based in Houston, TX. The acquisition target provides expert medical consultation services to patients, typically at a critical point in the patients’ lives when a second and/or...
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Cabot Prime Week Ending January 15, 2021

From the Cabot Prime Week Ending January 15, 2021 issue of Cabot Prime|by Cabot Wealth Network|Cabot Prime

Stock Recommendation Tracker The Stock Recommendation Tracker is a table that features all of the current recommendations in all of our portfolios. It’s a quick way for you to see what stocks are currently in our portfolios and will highlight new additions or any to...
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From the Cabot Prime Pro Week Ending January 15, 2021 issue of Cabot Prime Pro|by Cabot Wealth Network|Cabot Prime Pro

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Cabot Early Opportunities Special Bulletin

January 15, 2021|From Cabot Early Opportunities|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

What a market! Despite all the noise out there our portfolio’s performance continues to exceed expectations. Our average gain across 30 positions is hovering between 80% and 85% as I write.
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Mike Cintolo talks about his bullish stance, but he's also seeing few stocks at good entry points and also a bit of churning among some leading stocks.
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Cabot Top Ten Trader Movers and Shakers Weekly Update   

January 15, 2021|From Cabot Top Ten Trader|by Mike Cintolo|Growth Stocks

From a top-down perspective, the week has been fine—the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are down less than 1% on the week as of this morning, while broader indexes (small and mid-caps) are up decently. All in all, that keeps the intermediate-term trend pointed higher,...
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From the Cabot Growth Investor 1463 issue of Cabot Growth Investor|by Mike Cintolo|Growth Stocks

Taking Things on a Stock-by-Stock Basis We believe one of the main reasons our system has proved durable is that it doesn’t focus on just one or two factors, but incorporates things from different angles. For instance, when selecting stocks, we’re not only looking charts...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update

January 14, 2021|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

As we near the end of the second week of 2021 and approach inauguration day, the market is barreling full steam ahead, seemingly unaware of the dung piles that are consistently thrown in its path.
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Cabot Global Stocks Explorer Bi-weekly Update

January 14, 2021|From Cabot Global Stocks Explorer|by Carl Delfeld|Emerging Markets

The phrase you hear more than ever from market prognosticators these days is that they are “cautiously optimistic” about the state of the stock market. In some ways this is pretty useless advice, but in another it hits the nail on the head. market...
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Cabot Income Advisor Weekly Update

January 13, 2021|From Cabot Income Advisor|by Tom Hutchinson|Income Investing

In this issue I highlight two timely stocks for purchase now.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update

January 13, 2021|From Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor|by Bruce Kaser|Value Investing

Most stocks on the Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor recommended list had strong performance this past week. Part of the strength was perhaps due to money managers’ general optimism that seems to brighten with turn of the calendar. With last year’s bonuses firmly in bag,...
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Cabot Dividend Investor 121

From the Cabot Dividend Investor 121 issue of Cabot Dividend Investor|by Tom Hutchinson|Dividend Stocks

A Goliath of the Dawning Digital Age Are you sick of hearing about the virus and the election? I know I am. But there’s good news. As hard as it may be to believe, these current obsessions will fade away, and soon. As the from...
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Cabot Micro-Cap Insider 121

From the Cabot Micro-Cap Insider 121 issue of Cabot Micro-Cap Insider|by Rich Howe|Small Cap Stocks

How I Pick Micro-Caps It’s been a while since I’ve explained my process for picking micro-cap stocks so I figured it would be worthwhile to review. It can be extremely profitable to invest in growth companies, as any Tesla or Amazon shareholder will tell you. But is...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Special Bulletin

January 12, 2021|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

Karyopharm (KPTI) pre-announced Q4 2020 results yesterday morning and I watched the stock, which was weak (closed down 8%) throughout the day as I pondered the results. I’ll get to my thoughts in a minute. First, the numbers.
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Cabot Profit Booster 157

From the Cabot Profit Booster 157 issue of Cabot Profit Booster|by Jacob Mintz|Options Trading

This week, Cabot Profit Booster features a top new-economy recommendation in the fast-growing social media space whose stock is just short of its all-time high.
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From the Cabot Stock of the Week 330 issue of Cabot Stock of the Week|by Timothy Lutts|Stock Market

The first week of the year saw buyers dominate, pushing the major indexes to higher heights on most days. Thus the major uptrend is intact, but extended, which means this is probably not the best time to buy an aggressive growth stock.
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January 8, 2021|From Cabot Small-Cap Confidential|by Tyler Laundon|Small Cap Stocks

Yesterday after the close Accolade (ACCD) reported Q3 results that surpassed expectations on both the top and bottom lines.
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January 8, 2021|From Cabot Top Ten Trader|by Mike Cintolo|Growth Stocks

We discussed a couple of weeks ago how early January is usually volatile, and this year has been no different—in fact, with the headlines out of Washington, D.C., Georgia and more, we’ve seen even more whippy action than normal, with big moves in indexes...
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