Cabot Stock of the Week 358
When I wrote to you last Monday, stocks were having their worst day since March, and looked primed for a more sustained pullback. Since then, they’ve gone nowhere but up.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The market got off to a horrible week as stocks sold off Monday, but things have been a lot better since and the S&P 600 Small Cap Index is now back above where it closed last Wednesday (6% below all-time highs). Stepping back, see...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
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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Cabot Stock of the Week 357
The bull market is alive and well, with major indexes hitting new highs in recent days. However, growth stocks in particular have been hit hard recently, and that requires some selling.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The big picture this week is much the same as last week. In fact, the S&P 600 Small Cap Index closed today just a fraction off where it closed last Thursday. The same applies to the Nasdaq, while the S&P 500 is up modestly.
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Cabot Dividend Investor 721
Remember income? It used to be so easy. But good yields from traditional investments have gone the way of the eight-track tape.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
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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Cabot Micro-Cap Insider 721
Growth at a Value Price
If you’ve been a subscriber for a while, you’ve heard me say it before.
I love micro-caps because you can buy growth stocks at value prices.
In large-cap land, you can buy growth stocks for growth (expensive) prices and value stocks value...
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Cabot Stock of the Week 356
The broad market will stop going up and start going down. And while I will continue to recommend one stock per week, I will recommend that you be more cautious about buying, that you be less patient with underperformers, and that you take more...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The market, and especially the small-cap index, has been a little soft after the Fourth of July holiday weekend, but all things considered it’s hard to say anything is wrong. The move down in U.S. Treasury yields is a bit of a head-scratcher the...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor 721
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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Cabot Stock of the Week 355
Today’s recommendation is a big fast-growing technology company that you may not have heard of, but that has had a huge impact on the lives of Asian consumers.
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Cabot Small Cap Confidential 266
The Big Idea
It used to be that sales and marketing teams relied on conferences, cold calls, mass mailings and in-person networking events to engage with business clients.
Then the internet arrived, and a lot of this activity moved online. That was great … for while.
But...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
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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Cabot Stock of the Week 354
In recent weeks, growth stocks, which had underperformed for a few months, have looked increasingly healthier, and today I’m happy to recommend a young one in the life sciences industry with a strong chart and great growth potential.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Despite some wobbles last Friday it has been a constructive week for the market, and especially for growth stocks. Since last Thursday’s close and through yesterday’s close the S&P 500 has inched up 0.5% (back near record closing highs), the Nasdaq has hit record...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
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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Cabot Stock of the Week 353
These days, when you think of “growth stocks,” it’s hard for your mind not to go to cloud software, cybersecurity, e-commerce and online help for small and mid-sized businesses.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Small caps have pulled back ever so slightly from the all-time highs of last week. But that’s not the big news of the week. The larger event was yesterday’s Fed meeting, during which Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that a start to tapering of purchases...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
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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