Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Small caps and growth stocks continue to look better for the third consecutive week. This is a welcome trend given that the beginning of May was pretty tough.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1473
Baby Steps
Three weeks ago, growth stocks were in ruins, and we don’t think that’s much of an exaggeration—while the Nasdaq was only 8.5% off its high, things like the Russell 2000 Growth Fund (IWO), which we write about later in this issue, sat than...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Well, it’s about time some buyers showed up. While we can’t yet characterize the move in higher growth small- and mid-cap stocks as a rally per se, it’s not premature to say that sentiment has turned up when it comes to these types stocks...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1472
Biding our Time
It’s been a downer of a three months for growth stocks, so we want to start with a positive note, partially in response to some worried questions we’ve started to get as the sellers really dug in their heels last week: term,...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
While still very choppy, this past week has been much better than the two weeks prior as the selloff in growth stocks has cooled and more investors have begun to think longer term. While the risk of inflation is still an overhang on stocks,...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
This has been another tough week for most growth-oriented small cap stocks as the sellers have clearly taken control. There are easy targets to point to as driving the decline, namely fear of inflation. But the reality is it is mostly just a of...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1471
Back in the Soup
During the past month, the way we thought about what was going on was that growth stocks had finally put themselves into a position to get going after a two and a half month stretch of tough, choppy trading. Instead narrow,...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Even though stocks have been wobbly today the last week has been very constructive for our portfolio. As of mid-day today, our portfolio is up an average of 4% from last Thursday’s close, and only two positions are down (neither by more than 2%).
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Cabot Growth Investor 1470
Seeing More Setups, but Still in the Spin Cycle
Two-plus months ago, speculation was running rampant and most growth stocks had made giant moves over the prior six to nine months. So when the sellers finally stepped up and cracked the intermediate-term uptrend in growth...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
In the last 48 hours I have received two unsolicited offers to buy property we own. The first was for our second home in Vermont, a handyman’s special I bought in 2004 and sank nearly a decade of blood, sweat and tears into completing...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
It’s been another mostly constructive week as many of our stocks inch higher and the economic picture continues to improve.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1469
Sellers Fading—but Will the Buyers Show Up?
We’re all about going with the evidence, and when it comes to growth stocks, the evidence was nearly uniformly negative (or at least not positive) for most of the past month. The vast majority of leading stocks, many...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
There’s no doubt things are looking a little better out there as many software, MedTech and other growth stocks retested their March lows late last week then turned north. The timing of that short-term reversal, coinciding with the end of the first quarter, definitely...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1468
Less is More
In the real world, persistence is almost always associated with good things. If you’re a salesperson, you don’t give up when a few accounts turn you down; you keep selling until one customer bites. If your team is developing a new they...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
It continues to be a very tough market, and with our exposure to small- and mid-cap growth stocks our portfolio continues to feel pressure. After some signs of stabilization last week the sellers are back in control this week and many names look to...
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Why Small-Cap Stocks Are Soaring – and Why the Run is Far From Over
Small-cap stocks have been on a tear in early 2021. Can they keep it up? Here are a few reasons why the answer is yes.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Neither the broad market nor the S&P 600 Small Cap index have done much over the last week. But both received a small boost yesterday after the Fed upgraded its 2021 growth outlook and said it didn’t expect to raise rates until 2024.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1467
Open to Anything, but Playing the Odds
Last year saw a ton of “wow, we haven’t seen this kind of unusual market action in decades!” situations, but instead of reverting back to normal behavior, 2021 has had plenty of tricks up its sleeve as The...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
As promised in yesterday’s Special Bulletin today we’re looking past the big picture stuff to focus on our stocks. With one quick note … we just may have a three-day streak going! Yields have backed off and a lot of stocks from different are...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1466
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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