4 Reasons for a Reverse Stock Split
It gets a bad rap, but a reverse stock split can change the fortunes of a public company. Here are four reasons why more companies should do it.
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
There is this widely held belief that January is a great month for investors. But I always throw cold water on this claim because the fact is, over the past 25 years, it’s been one of the worst months for stocks.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
The U.S. stock market rebounded on Tuesday, following testimony from Chair Powell at his Senate confirmation hearing. Investors liked what he said, implying that the three anticipated quarter-point rate increases, which could start in March, would likely be enough to quell inflation (along a..
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Cabot Explorer 752
The S&P 500 recorded 70 closing highs in 2021, according to S&P Global. That's the most for a single year since 1995.
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Cabot Marijuana Investor 1221
Don’t Buy Cannabis ETFs—Buy Cannabis Stocks
In most sectors of the investment world, buying an ETF is a reasonable strategy if you don’t want to take the trouble to invest in individual stocks. The main downside is that you won’t have any huge winners, for...
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Cabot Explorer 751
There are a few interesting trends in the market. One is that five of the biggest stocks in the S&P 500 account for more than half of the broad benchmark’s gain since April, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
According to market lore, an off-handed comment in a brief conversation between two Wall Street participants about a century ago dispensed perhaps the most valuable investing advice ever uttered. When asked what he thought stocks would do, the veteran John R. is said have...
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
It’s been a challenging week for growth investors as the stocks that climbed the fastest are getting hit the hardest, such as our Cloudflare (NET) position, despite still posting strong numbers. On the other hand, Oracle (ORCL), where expectations are more modest, jumped 89...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Private equity, the polished-up name for venture capital and leveraged buyout funds, is white-hot. If every market cycle has its own Masters of the Universe (the 1990s had tech mutual funds, the 2000s had hedge funds), the past decade’s MOTU was clearly private equity.
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Cabot Explorer 750
U.S.-listed stocks are again in the news. The SEC laid out rules last week requiring Chinese companies listed in the U.S. to face audits or risk delisting within three years.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Our comments this week are mostly questions. Day-to-day gyrations make sense on the surface. Yesterday, the market surged on news of China easing its monetary policy combined with a growing sense of relief that the Omicron variant is milder than previously understood. But the...
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
The market has entered a rough patch, especially for tech and stocks that have not been demonstrating relative strength. Explorer stocks are all over the map, with Coupa (COUP) and Cloudflare (NET) showing some weakness, many positions holding steady, and Novonix (NVNXF) up in...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
The market is beginning to more fully anticipate a post-Covid environment and economy. As such, investors are looking to slower/normalized/sustainable growth following the bulge from the pandemic stimulus programs and pent-up demand, higher interest rates, and a relenting of supply chain issues.
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
There is one topic that brings together Wall Street, Hollywood and Silicon Valley – the metaverse. While "metaverse" definitions are varied, the idea of bringing people together in a virtual interactive world is, as they used to say, the talk of the town.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
We continue to watch in amazement the values that the market puts on electric vehicle makers, with the most recent example of Rivian Automotive (RIVN). Since its IPO at $78/share, RIVN shares have doubled, making the EV company’s roughly 900 million shares worth total...
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Cabot Explorer 748
Inflation stays high, Infrastructure week arrives, Rivian stock surges while markets sell off a bit yesterday. The weakness yesterday halted some good rallies among Explorer stocks.
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Reverse Stock Splits: The Pros and Cons
Do you avoid reverse stock splits, or are you intrigued by them? Here's some insight on the wins and the losses.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Like nature, stock markets have seasons. We experienced a brief but frigid winter about 18 months ago when nearly every stock wilted as capital markets froze (no pun intended, mostly).
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
The market was steady this past week as the Federal Reserve completed its two-day meeting and announced plans to end its stimulus program but keep rates unchanged. Some highlights among Explorer stocks:
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Cabot Explorer 747
There are many ways to get investment ideas, but more than one successful investor has told me it all begins for them with reading the humble front page of a national newspaper.
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