Arcosa (ACA) released an uninspiring report on Wednesday that was particularly ill-timed given yesterday’s market retreat. The company missed across the board. Revenue was up 2.7% to $459 million, missing by $4.7 million while adjusted EPS of $0.33 missed by $0.08. Guidance for 2021 missed...
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More Cracks Appear
At the start of November we saw a couple of blastoff-type indicators flash green (like the Three Day Thrust rule), and that turned out to be the start of a powerful intermediate-term advance. During the next two-plus months, progress was relative there...
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The big picture for the market is that the uptrend is intact but under the surface we’re continuing to see pockets of turbulence. While the S&P 500 is just 2% off its high from last week and the S&P 600 Small Cap Index a..
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Upwork (UPWK) reported Q4 results yesterday that surpassed expectations on the top and bottom lines. Revenue was up 32% to $106.2 million (beating by $8.8 million) while adjusted EPS of $0.06 beat by $0.06. Guidance for 2021 also surpassed consensus.
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Last week wasn’t great for growth stocks and so far, this week is just plain awful. The primary culprits are known; risk of inflation and higher interest rates have pushed cyclical stocks up and growth stocks down (generally speaking).
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The market took another hit this morning, but like yesterday, the major indexes have found support as the day has progressed—just after 3 pm EST, the Dow was down 70 points while the Nasdaq was off 66 points. Part of the reason for recent...
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As mentioned last week, today’s Weekly Update will be an abbreviated version owing to the short work week and because of family commitments as our kids are out of school and I am solo parenting, making free writing time hard to come by. said,...
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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
APi Group (APG)
$3.6 billion
19.25
Growth & Value – Industrial Services
C3.ai (AI)
$14.1 billion
147.17
Rapid Growth – Software
Fisker (FSR)
$5.4billion
19.46
Development Stage – EV Designer
JFrog (FROG)
$6.3 billion
69.23
Rapid Growth – Software
Poshmark (POSH)
$5.4 billion
73.29
Rapid Growth – Resale/Social Platform
Make Hay While the Sun Is Shining
This has been a phenomenal for...
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Datadog (DDOG) reported Q4 results yesterday afternoon that surpassed expectations but were light in terms of 2021 EPS guidance. Revenue was up 56% to $178 million (beating by $14 million) while adjusted EPS of $0.06 beat by $0.04. Revenue guidance for 2021 of $825 to...
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Simply Put: Very Impressive Action
Two weeks ago, the major indexes and some individual stocks began to flash abnormal action, a couple of key leaders were threatening to break down and some late-in-the-advance type of action (heavily shorted stocks going nuts) was occurring. Importantly, the...
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Suffice to say we are in a bull market. Areas of it are most definitely frothy. But stepping back and thinking about where we are in a bigger cycle I continue to feel as though we are entering a more sustained economic recovery (hopefully)...
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Lyft (LYFT) reported Q4 2020 earnings after the close yesterday and the results were better than expected even though the numbers look just terrible (thanks pandemic!). Revenue fell 44% to $570 million (but beat expectations by $9 million) while adjusted EPS was -$0.58, $0.05 than...
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Nuance (NUAN) reported Q1 fiscal 2021 results yesterday that beat expectations on the top and bottom lines. That said, the numbers don’t look that great due to a large, non-strategic coding government contract that did not renew (management previously disclosed on the Q4 fiscal conference...
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As earnings season gets into gear we have a few updates on positions that have reported this week. Stepping back and looking holistically at our portfolio, which currently has 34 positions, we’re going to view earnings season as an opportunity to prune our a..
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The quick rebound in the major indexes and many growth stocks this week has been very encouraging—it doesn’t completely clear the air from some of the abnormal action last week, but it’s definitely a plus. We remain mostly bullish, though we continue to entries...
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The Big Idea
There are nearly 6 million men across the U.S. and Europe currently living with prostate cancer. Roughly 625,000 more are added to the list each year. That makes prostate cancer easily one of the most common types of cancer affecting men.
Toss benign...
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Unexpected Events Occur Frequently
One of the unique things about the market (and a big reason so many investors have trouble) is that it doesn’t follow the usual “bell curve” of probabilities that dominates the real world. For instance, given that the market’s average is...
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For some time I’ve felt that we should be bumping up the upper end of our market cap range since the market’s evolution, and rising share prices, has made for somewhat slim pickings for high growth names in the under $3 billion market range...
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It’s hard to say if this round of fun with Virgin Galactic (SPCE) is beginning to unwind or if the stock will be up 20% tomorrow (to pick a random number). However, judging by the action in many of the most speculative short squeeze stocks (GME,...
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The market has been searching for direction this week and we’ve seen an uptick in “the crazy.” If you don’t know what I mean just Google “Short Squeeze GME” and read about the likely collective impact of retail investors teaming up on some to...
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