Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The big news that affected the market this week was, of course, the dreaded yield curve inversion. This happens when the 10-year Treasury yield goes below the 2-year yield.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The market has been up, down and all over the place lately. So have our stocks. Oddly enough, from last Thursday’s close through yesterday’s close our portfolio is relatively unchanged—down just 2% using a simple average of each stock’s weekly return.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Our portfolio is outperforming the index by roughly 100%, on average. But we’re not the only ones. Many targeted mutual funds are also demolishing the Russell 2000 Small Cap Index.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
This week marks the beginning of the second-quarter earnings season. I don't foresee any major changes in the trends in any of our companies, but stock price reactions and trends don't always line up in the short term.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
This week’s market recap is a familiar story—the major big-cap market indices are doing great! But the small cap index is still wallowing in the mud.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Not surprisingly, this week wasn’t a great one for our portfolio. I had a feeling the party was winding down last week, when we had an average gain of 105% going and had just seen our stocks pop an average of 6% over days...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
This was another one of those weeks where you look at what the S&P 500 did—up 1.5% to a 52-week high—and you look at what the S&P 600 Small Cap Index did—up 1% to 945 and back above its 50-day line, but well its...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
With the market having come back strong since its swift retreat in early June the immediate threat of a larger correction has diminished. The S&P 500 index is back above its 50-day line and within a couple percentage points of its all-time high.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Altogether it felt like a calm week. Considering the worsening performance of the S&P 600 Small Cap Index, which broke below its comfort zone, and the S&P 500, now 6% off its high, our portfolio’s resiliency continues to stand out.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Looking at the broad market we see that the S&P 500 is just 4% off its recent high, has thus far held above support around 2,800 and remains above its long-term (200-day) moving average line. The Nasdaq dipped to its May 13 low 7,627,...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
This is a great time to be invested in these stocks, clearly. And I hope the trend continues. But I do think we have a missing ingredient before we can feel super confident that these gains will stick. And that ingredient is more from...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Everybody’s focus is on the high-stakes chess game the U.S. and China are playing with respect to trade, and the upcoming Uber IPO. But behind the scenes there’s a nice little rally going on in a certain group of small-cap stocks!
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
It’s earnings season so most investors are focused on individual stocks. And with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hitting new all-time highs this week, the big picture is looking pretty good too!
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Prepare yourself for more ups and downs in our medtech & biotech stocks if this debate heats up. I’m not planning to step out of the space since I think this will pass and we can still do quite well with these types stocks.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Small-cap discretionary, energy, financials, industrials, technology and materials are all moving higher. That’s a healthy mix, and it’s helped push the S&P 600 Small Cap Index back up near overhead resistance.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The market has been jumping around lately as it digests the Fed’s announcement last week that it expects to hold interest rates steady until 2020 (and just one hike in that year) and would stop shrinking its balance sheet later in 2019.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Right now, keep new positions small and don’t get fooled into thinking we’re on a one-way conveyor belt higher. If this bull market is to stay healthy and continue, we’ll need to see a pause in leading stocks and some catch up performance areas...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
In many individual stocks I’d say the action is starting to lean more towards frothy, than bearish. That’s why I’ve been pulling on the reins in recent weeks, moving more stocks to hold and suggesting taking smaller positions if you’re buying.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The S&P 600 Small Cap Index has pulled back a bit more after trading up near the high end of my expected trading range last week. We’ll continue to watch this range (900 to 1,000) as I expect the index to bounce around it...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Small caps continue to move higher so keep leaning bullish, but be mindful that we’re near a resistance area and that it’s equally likely we will see some softness as it is that we will see more strength.
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