We are mostly through the bulk of earnings season and it has been enlightening, particularly as we learn about the pandemic’s effects on profits. Earnings season should be a period when company results can be clearly measured, especially since we are dealing with numbers.
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Getting Defensive
This week, I’m on vacation in scenic Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. We chose Manchester-by-the-Sea because of the beautiful beaches, but just as importantly, because that’s where my in-laws live.
My wife and I have learned (the hard way) that going on vacation isn’t much of vacation...
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Despite a few cracks in growth stocks in the last couple trading days, the overall stock market continues to hum along, with the S&P 500 a mere 1% below all-time highs as of this writing.
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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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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 Cabot Top Ten Trader
Two weeks ago we saw a bunch of positive earnings reactions that bolstered leading stocks, but last week was mostly the reverse—the leaders that had been running for months took on water, often reacting poorly to earnings and/or share Of...
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I have a number of notes and recommended actions regarding several of our stocks that have made earnings-related moves recently.
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It's been a very good week for the major indexes, with all of them up more than 2%, but in a change of pace, it’s been a sour week for the leading stocks. Last week saw a bunch of positive earnings reactions, but week,...
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As you know if you’ve read anything about this deal, these two companies are the “it” players in digital health. Both have business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) business models, meaning they sell to companies, but solutions are used by consumers like you and me.
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All eyes are on Washington this week as markets, which have risen over the last four trading sessions, are counting on lawmakers hammering out another stimulus bill. Our emerging markets market timer remains positive.
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The Big Idea
To say that the U.S. healthcare system is complicated, confusing, and expensive would be a colossal understatement.
One could argue that “system,” defined as an organized framework or method, isn’t a very good term at all. Perhaps “landscape,” which encompasses both existing transitory...
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A Few Thoughts on Rising Market Speculation
The stock market continues to favor high-tech “digital economy” growth companies, particularly after the remarkably strong earnings reports from Apple, Amazon and others. The performance spread between “digital economy” stocks and “physical economy” stocks suggest that speculative is...
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The market’s main trend remains up, and thus our goal continues to be maintaining a full and diversified portfolio of high-potential stocks.
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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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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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As earnings season has picked up, we’ve been pleased to see mostly positive reactions across the market and individual stocks, including some potential fresh leaders.
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Positive, but Less Powerful
One of the big reasons the market has always attracted us is that it’s a contrary beast, requiring investors to think and perceive things differently than in their day-to-day view of the real world. To the average person who turns the...
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Our portfolio has been largely treading water for a few weeks. That’s not surprising given that we’ve been waiting for earnings season to start (it finally has!) and that there’s this persistent sense that bad news for the economy resulting from the coronavirus more...
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Tyler updates four stocks in the Cabot Early Opportunities Portfolio.
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Earnings reports have been mixed and market activity muted this week, but today the four technology giants will report after the market closes. Germany reported that its economy contracted the most on record, shrinking 10.1% in the second quarter.
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