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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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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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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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
Concentrix (CNXC)
$8.25 Billion
158.2
Growth – CX Software
FirstService Corporation (FSV)
$7.88 Billion
178.9
Growth – Property Services
iHeartMedia (IHRT)
$3.25 billion
24.61
Growth – Radio/Podcast/Broadcasting
L Brands (LB)
$19.9 billion
74.46
Growth – Retail
Upstart Holdings (UPST)
$9.05 billion
117.6
Rapid Growth – AI Lending
Seeking Simplicity Through Diversification
As we move through the middle of 2021 investors continue face...
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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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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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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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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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The U.S. economy is recovering robustly with promises of ongoing strength as the jobs market recovery accelerates and as international economies more fully reopen.
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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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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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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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Last week, we started our multi-part discussion on position sizes, and looked at the benefits and weaknesses of an equal-weighted approach. Let’s look at perhaps the most common weighting used by fund managers: relative weighting.
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Still (Mostly) a Meat Grinder
In the last issue we wrote about the baby steps the market had taken since mid-May—it wasn’t anything decisive, but after suffering a ton of damage, growth stocks were slowly improving, with some big-volume rallies, more stocks setting up multi-month...
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In most professional and personal endeavors, there are dozens if not hundreds of decisions to make. Manage a tech company? You need to decide who to hire/promote/fire, what responsibilities to give them, how much to pay them (base and bonus), resolve conflicting agendas, what...
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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
Academy Sports & Outdoor (ASO)
$3.63 Billion
39.37
Growth – Sporting Goods/Retail
Driven Brands (DRVN)
$4.97 billion
29.66
Rapid Growth – Auto Services
GoEasy (GSY.CA, EHMEF)
$2.53 billion
153.9
Growth/Value – Leasing & Lending
Maravai LifeSciences (MRVI)
$11.4 billion
44.00
Rapid Growth – MedTech
TELUS International (TIXT)
$8.09 billion
31.46
Rapid Growth – Customer Care
Up, Up and Away?
Over the week...
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The market has been doing OK, though it’s more about addition by subtraction—the fact that growth stocks have avoided any major selling wave after the recent upmove is a plus, but we’re still seeing lots of selling on strength and rotational action that by...
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The market seems to have settled into complacency. We’re in a period after first-quarter earnings reports and government statistics indicate a surging economy, yet investors rightfully wonder if or when the Fed will raise interest rates and are starting to consider what happens the...
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Baby Steps
Three weeks ago, growth stocks were in ruins, and we don’t think that’s much of an exaggeration—while the Nasdaq was only 8.5% off its high, things like the Russell 2000 Growth Fund (IWO), which we write about later in this issue, sat than...
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Many of our recommended names are at or approaching our price targets. The decision to keep or sell isn’t easy in a strong market. Our patience is being tested (in a good way).
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