Other than price changes not much has happened with our stocks since I wrote last week. With our offices closed tomorrow and Friday we’ll all be taking a short break before gearing up for the last month of the year.
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This is probably going to be an unusual Thanksgiving for many of you as we head into the last month of a turbulent year. While the overall market is up only a bit over 10%, there have been pockets that have delivered much, higher...
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After an insane couple of weeks this one has felt relatively calm. There is still plenty of market-moving news around the election, vaccines, the pandemic’s frightening trajectory, etc. but I think we’ve all become somewhat accustomed enough to alarming headlines – within a range...
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Markets steadied this week as the political situation became clearer and prospects for Covid-19 vaccines becoming available in the first half of 2021 seem more promising. The Explorer portfolio performed well this week, with a couple of ideas breaking out to new highs.
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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
Avantor (AVTR)
$15.8 billion
27.46
Growth – MedTech
Berkeley Lights (BLI)
$5.5 billion
86.15
Rapid Growth - MedTech
e.l.f. Beauty (ELF)
$1.1 billion
21.67
Growth – Personal Care
Farfetch Limited (FTCH)
$15.2 billion
44.56
Rapid Growth - Ecommerce
Kornit Digital (KRNT)
$3.2 billion
79.06
Rapid Growth – Textile Printing
Preparing for the Next Phase of the Pandemic
The current investing climate one...
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The market is working its way through significant developments on many fronts – U.S. presidential race, raging pandemic, positive vaccine developments – and information overload is causing some intense action in individual stocks.
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Election results seem clear and will have a mixed impact on investor appetites.
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It appears that we will have a sharply divided government in Washington, which Wall Street initially is taking as a positive. A better way of putting it is that it could have been much worse for investors.
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At Least One Uncertainty Cloud Should be Evaporating
There remains a lot going on. The pandemic, domestic and international economies struggling, zero/negative interest rates, and an unusually high number of other clouds still obscure the investing horizon. But, with election season rapidly approaching its one...
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A day like yesterday can make investors feel like there’s little reason to hang around in this market.
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Markets are choppy, which is normal considering uncertainty is high and we’re less than a week from the presidential election. Today I look at what history can teach us about politics and markets and why it might be a bit different this time.
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Anyway, the market doesn’t seem to be fazed by all the incredible things going on in the world these days. Stepping back, that makes some sense.
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Stocks trading on U.S. markets faced some resistance as hopes for some sort of stimulus bill fade and as mixed earnings report begin rolling in. A key question is whether the pandemic boom stocks will have the revenue and earnings growth to support sharp...
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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
Clarivate PLC (CCC)
$12 billion
30.92
Growth – Information Services
Cryoport (CYRX)
$1.8 billion
45.62
Rapid Growth – MedTech
Nuance Comm (NUAN)
$9.7 billion
34.45
Growth - Software
Pinterest (PINS)
$27 billion
45.13
Rapid Growth – Social M./Ad. Platform
Upwork (UPWK)
$2.5 billion
20.93
Growth – Staffing Platform
Five Stocks That Caught My Attention This Week
Normally, I write about some of...
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I don’t anticipate any major changes in our portfolio leading into earnings as I’d prefer to hear what’s new and then go from there. That said, we have a couple of minor adjustments based on stock price action.
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The Explorer portfolio held steady this week, though Cloudflare (NET) broke out with a 42% gain and our newest recommendation, Vipshop (VIPS), was up 12%. A few other stocks moved nicely higher.
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The consensus opinion right now is that the market is strong because it’s looking favorably on the prospects of a clear-cut winner in the upcoming presidential election and that the likelihood of another round of stimulus is going up.
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The Explorer portfolio had another positive week, as the market is hostage to enacting another politically difficult stimulus package. Count me as skeptical. Stay-at-home stocks are leading the market while economic-recovery stocks struggle.
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We’re in Limbo-Land … Now What?
There seems to be so much going on, and yet investors are stuck in the middle with no direction.
We’ve passed the worst (hopefully) of the pandemic, yet there isn’t a clear-cut solution in sight. The domestic economy continues grow...
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We enter the fourth quarter of 2020 today with a long-term game plan, not a 2-minute drill. The Explorer portfolio had a good week, with all positions advancing, though some more than others.
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