Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
Kinsale Capital (KNSL)
$4.2 billion
191.94
Rapid Growth – P&C Insurance
Nevro (NVRO)
$4.9 billion
144.55
Rapid Growth – MedTech
Peloton (PTON)
$24.7 billion
85.45
Rapid Growth – Exercise Equipment
Varonis (VRNS)
$3.6 billion
112.46
Rapid Growth – Software
Vital Farms (VITL)
$1.5 billion
36.65
Rapid Growth – Eggs & Butter
Time Is on Our Side
In 1964 the Rolling Stones their...
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Don’t Fight the Fed?
The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, called by its colloquial name “the Fed” even on its website, made its informal but landmark policy change official last week. For the foreseeable future, the Fed will keep interest rates near zero, focusing almost on...
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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
Altair Engineering (ALTR)
$3.0 billion
42.25
Growth – Industrial Software
Azek (AZEK)
$6.0 billion
38.76
Growth – Construction Materials
Jamf (JAMF)
$4.5 billion
38.54
Rapid Growth – Software
Nikola (NKLA)
$14.9 billion
39.18
Development – Electric/Hydrogen Auto
TFF Pharma (TFFP)
$271 million
12.98
Development – Biotech
Is The Hydrogen Economy Becoming Reality?
Hydrogen has been a hot topic among investors lately of...
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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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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
Bandwidth (BAND)
$3.1 billion
129.56
Growth – Comm. Software
Bloom Energy (BE)
$1.6 billion
13.09
Growth – Fuel Cells
Cloudflare (NET)
$11 billion
35.75
Rapid Growth – Security Software
Schrodinger (SDGR)
$5.2 billion
83.63
Rapid Growth – MedTech
SciPlay (SCPL)
$1.9 billion
14.62
Growth – Online Gaming
The Grand Experiment Continues
As we move into the heart of the summer uncertainty on...
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How to Learn More about the Companies You Own
As the new Chief Analyst for the Undervalued Stock Advisor, I’d like to thank you for reading this month’s letter. I know you have many sources of investment ideas and advice, and I appreciate your in...
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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
Bill.com (BILL)
$5.69 billion
76.57
Rapid Growth – Software
OneWater Marine (ONEW)
$312 million
21.43
Growth – Boats
Purple Innovations (PRPL)
$935 million
17.34
Rapid Growth – Mattresses
SelectQuote (SLQT)
$4.52 billion
27.26
Rapid Growth – Insurance Broker
Tela Bio (TELA)
$219 million
19.18
Rapid Growth – MedTech
Keep An Open Mind
If this year has taught us anything it is the...
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How to Monitor Future Trouble in the Housing Market
U.S. stock markets continue to rise, carrying the majority of our portfolio stocks upward. There’s price resistance on the S&P 500 index at about 3,200, so that’s where I will anticipate an end to the run-up...
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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
DraftKings (DKNG)
$9.2 billion
29.57
Rapid Growth – Sports Betting
Enphase (ENPH)
$8.4 billion
67.02
Rapid Growth – Solar
Formula One Group (FWONK)
$7.6 billion
31.17
Growth – Auto Racing
GFL Environmental (GFL)
$5.8 billion
17.78
Rapid Growth – Waste Services
Viela Bio (VIE)
$2.7 billion
54.21
Clinical Stage Biotech
Dot Com Bubble 2.0 or Rational Exuberance?
When then-Fed Chairman Alan publicly...
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Caution: Rough Seas Ahead
As the stock market recovers from the steep downturn in March, I’d like to stress that this downturn bears no resemblance to any previous stock market downturn. It wasn’t created by corporate excesses or a housing bubble or any specific problem...
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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
Adaptive Biotechnologies (ADPT)
$3.6 billion
28.16
Rapid Growth – Immune Medicine
Conmed (CNMD)
$2.11 billion
74.10
Steady, Slow Growth – MedTech
Datadog (DDOG)
$11.56 billion
38.91
Supernormal Growth – Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
Descartes Systems (DSGX)
$3.30 billion
39.33
Growth – Supply Chain Software
Virgin Galactic Holdings (SPCE)
$3.73 billion
19.03
Disruptive Technology – Aerospace
Off the Ventilator and Into the a..
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The Other Side of the Mountain
It appears as if U.S. stock markets have begun rebounding from the drastic March downturn. As you would expect, stocks that are less affected by global quarantine behaviors are recovering far more swiftly than those that cater to of...
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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
BellRing Brands (BRBR)
$600 million
15.23
Growth – Packaged Foods
BlackLine (BL)
$2.76 billion
48.98
Rapid Growth – Accounting Software
Kroger (KR)
$26.9 billion
34.19
Steady, Slow Growth – Grocery Store
Survey Monkey (SVMK)
$1.5 billion
10.67
Rapid Growth – Survey Software
Sunnova (NOVA)
$624 million
7.43
Growth – Solar Panels & Storage
Searching for Turnip Shoots on a Scorched I..
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Analyst note: With all that’s going on in the market and all the disruptions we’re dealing with as families working from home we’re altering the editorial schedule and format of Cabot Early Opportunities for a short period of time. The immediate goal is focus...
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Expect Continued Volatility
I’ll continue to write Bulletins more often, so that investors can navigate through this stock market correction and take advantage of trading opportunities. I might frequently mention stocks that don’t appear in these portfolios. There are lots of excellent growth to...
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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
Slack (WORK)
$15.2 billion
27.58
Rapid Growth – Collaboration Software
Sprout Social (SPT)
$995 million
20.22
Growth – Social Media Software
Sunnova (NOVA)
$1.36 billion
16.24
Growth – Solar Panels & Storage
Varonis (VRNS)
$2.80 billion
91.97
Growth – Security Software
Y-mAbs Therapeutics (YMAB)
$1.30 billion
32.80
Development Stage Biotech
How Volatile Is My Stock?
One of the characteristics of early-stage that...
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The Stock Market Will Have A Lingering Cough After The Coronavirus Outbreak
When we all learned of the coronavirus outbreak in China, my first concern was, “Is this a normal flu or pneumonia germ, or is this a plague?”
I’m one of those “worst-case scenario” who...
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Hero Snow
I grew up skiing in Vermont and got to know different snow conditions well. My favorite is “hero snow”. Hero snow is what you get when you've had lots of medium size storms that skiers work into the mountain and which create superb...
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Get Ready to Rumble!
We are almost past a very quiet time period on Wall Street that featured a lack of major company news, M&A activity and earnings reports. As such, this will likely be the last recent issue where I had to scour internet...
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Stocks in this Issue
Current Investing
Environment
Another Year (Almost) in the Books
With this being the final Issue of Cabot Early Opportunities in 2019 I want change things up just a little. Normally, I write about some topic of interest that’s related to either small caps early-stage...
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