Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The bears sure enjoyed a rare day in the sun on Monday. The Dow had its worst day of the year, down more than 3%. Pessimists haven’t loved life like that since March of 2020.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Last week, we wrote about how the damp Boston-area weather matched the soggy stock market. Pressing our literary luck today, the market is following another New England weather meme: “if you don’t like the weather, wait a few minutes.”
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Cabot Dividend Investor 721
Remember income? It used to be so easy. But good yields from traditional investments have gone the way of the eight-track tape.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
In the Boston area, we’ve had nearly 8 inches of rain so far this month. This 0.7 inches-per-day average compares to the 0.6 inches-per-day average for a monsoon rainforest, the type found in the tropics along the equator. Sounds a lot like the mood...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
There is a Fed meeting today. The ultimate oracle of wisdom will bestow their current thinking upon anxious traders.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The second quarter ends today. GDP growth is forecasted to be 8.6% for the quarter, one of the best on record. Earnings for the S&P 500 is expected to grow over 60% over last year’s second quarter.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
In our continuing series on deciding how many positions to hold in a stock portfolio, let’s borrow a page from Major League Baseball (MLB). The methods that these teams use managing their players can be applied to investment portfolios.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market is hovering at a high level within bad breath distance of the all-time high. But that factoid is deceiving. The market really has not gone anywhere but sideways for about two months.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Last week, we started our multi-part discussion on position sizes, and looked at the benefits and weaknesses of an equal-weighted approach. Let’s look at perhaps the most common weighting used by fund managers: relative weighting.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
Sideways is a good thing. The market had a huge recovery from the pandemic and really soared between November and May. After such a rapid move higher in a short amount of time, a correction would be normal.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
In most professional and personal endeavors, there are dozens if not hundreds of decisions to make. Manage a tech company? You need to decide who to hire/promote/fire, what responsibilities to give them, how much to pay them (base and bonus), resolve conflicting agendas, what...
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Cabot Dividend Investor 621
It’s hard to get away from the current headlines. It’s all about the pandemic and recovery. Lately, they’re throwing in some inflation talk to spice things up.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
The market seems to have settled into complacency. We’re in a period after first-quarter earnings reports and government statistics indicate a surging economy, yet investors rightfully wonder if or when the Fed will raise interest rates and are starting to consider what happens the...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market continues to stumble sideways. On the one hand, the S&P 500 is within a whisker of the all-time high. On the other hand, stocks have been going sideways for about a month.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market is in nowheresville. The S&P 500 is at the same level it was in early April. But the index isn’t really down. It’s only 1% below the all-time high. It’s not that the market is going down. It just stopped going up.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
We’ve written about inflation in the past two letters and promise that we’ll stop with this letter, unless some major news on this front emerges. Yet, what keeps us on the topic is commentary from brokerage firms and media outlets saying that the is...
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The market’s relentless march ever higher is being interrupted. What’s going on?
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Investors have started to see a cloud or two in an otherwise sunny stock market sky. We don’t focus much on short-term market moves, but we have noticed that the weather is shifting, at least slightly.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
We’ve seen signs of it everywhere. Retail prices for homes, apartments, food, gasoline, cars and everyday services are higher than they were a year or two ago and are going higher. Upstream from these consumer-facing prices, input prices for raw materials, semiconductors, crops, energy...
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Cabot Dividend Investor 521
The easy money and sky-high returns of the earlier recovery may be over. But the party for income investors is still going strong.
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