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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You may have seen that a relatively new Explorer idea, Fisker (FSR), was up 38% yesterday. It turns out that my analogy of comparing the company to Apple’s relationship to Foxconn was truer than even I could imagine. The news yesterday was that Foxconn will be a..
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Some investors are bracing for the possibility that all this will lead to a surge in the cruelest tax of all – inflation.
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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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While the rest of the year looks very good for the market, a pullback is likely, if not inevitable, in the weeks and months ahead.
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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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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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While the market continues to move forward, The “Buffett Indicator,” which takes the broadest Wilshire 5000 Index and divides it by the annual U.S. GDP, is now at a record high. In doing the math, the Buffett Indicator stands at about 194%. This is...
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This market looks like it never wants to stop going higher. The S&P 500 just made yet another in a long series of new all-time highs.
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Today, I have a new recommendation that links three high profile growth trends: SPACs, e-commerce and internet gaming, and mobile payments.
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With the now-infamous Reddit trades unraveling, and the rebalancing done, the market is free to rebound.
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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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This week a number of Explorer stock retraced last week’s gains, with a major exception being the explosive 45% surge in Virgin Galactic (SPCE) on top of its previous week’s 25% surge. It appears that key test flights are forthcoming as well as more space mania and ETFs...
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The big news this week was, of course, the swearing in of President Biden and all the associated stories about the transition. Fun fact – portfolio holding Everbridge (EVBG) supplied its Mass Notification system to help keep Washington, D.C. area residents and visitors safe and in...
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Today, I have a new recommendation that links three high profile growth trends: SPACs, e-commerce and internet gaming, and mobile payments.
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Stock Name
Market Cap
Price
Investment Type
Arcosa (ACA)
$3.0 billion
62.01
Growth & Value – Infrastructure & Energy
Castle Biosciences (CSTL)
$1.9 billion
81.48
Rapid Growth – Genetic Testing
Certara (CERT)
$5.6 billion
36.60
Growth – Biosimulation Software
Lyft (LYFT)
$15.5 billion
48.94
Rapid Growth – Ridesharing
Purple (PRPL)
$2.2 billion
35.07
Rapid Growth – DTC Mattresses
Still Rallying
As we wade deeper into winter here in Northeast,...
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As we near the end of the second week of 2021 and approach inauguration day, the market is barreling full steam ahead, seemingly unaware of the dung piles that are consistently thrown in its path.
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The phrase you hear more than ever from market prognosticators these days is that they are “cautiously optimistic” about the state of the stock market. In some ways this is pretty useless advice, but in another it hits the nail on the head. market...
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The most important catalyst for America’s political upheaval as well as the prime generator of wealth over the last three decades has been the inexorable rise of finance and technology and the relative decline in terms of jobs, growth and profits from manufacturing industry...
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Sometimes the most appealing stocks are those that superficially seem to go against trends (leading to investors avoiding them) yet have either fundamental traits that sidestep these trends or have overly discounted valuations.
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