Cabot Growth Investor 1489
Well, 2021 is in the books, which we’re happy is the case, as it was far from a fruitful growth stock year—effectively payback for the amazing 2020 environment.
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
There is this widely held belief that January is a great month for investors. But I always throw cold water on this claim because the fact is, over the past 25 years, it’s been one of the worst months for stocks.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1488
We have most growth-oriented indexes and funds still stuck in intermediate-term downtrends, many former leaders that look awful and very few individual growth stocks really set up for a sustained run.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1487
After the huge market and growth stock selloff into early December, stocks flashed a relatively rare show of buying power—yes, the indexes popped higher, but even better was the under-the-surface action.
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
It’s been a challenging week for growth investors as the stocks that climbed the fastest are getting hit the hardest, such as our Cloudflare (NET) position, despite still posting strong numbers. On the other hand, Oracle (ORCL), where expectations are more modest, jumped 89...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1486
As Edward Johnson (the founder of Fidelity Investments) once said in a speech, the market’s music is always changing: Just when you’re used to one thing, the beat shifts.
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
The market has entered a rough patch, especially for tech and stocks that have not been demonstrating relative strength. Explorer stocks are all over the map, with Coupa (COUP) and Cloudflare (NET) showing some weakness, many positions holding steady, and Novonix (NVNXF) up in...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1485
It’s still a bull market, but there’s no doubt we’re seeing some hesitation following the three-week moonshot off the early-October lows.
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
There is one topic that brings together Wall Street, Hollywood and Silicon Valley – the metaverse. While "metaverse" definitions are varied, the idea of bringing people together in a virtual interactive world is, as they used to say, the talk of the town.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1484
After a very solid three-week stretch that brought many growth stocks back to their old highs (or out to new highs), we’ve now seen a couple of weeks of choppy, pothole-filled action.
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
The market was steady this past week as the Federal Reserve completed its two-day meeting and announced plans to end its stimulus program but keep rates unchanged. Some highlights among Explorer stocks:
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Cabot Growth Investor 1483
The market's nascent bounce two weeks ago has morphed into a very impressive rally, led by a gaggle of growth stocks that are acting better than they have since late last year and early 2021. We're not completely out of the woods, and season...
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
In a person, company, country, or stock, resiliency matters. For example, with disruptions related to the pandemic and supply-chain chaos all around us, some will navigate better than others. U.S. stocks have been rising despite coping with the effects of inflation, a slowing economy...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1482
Encouraging Bounce, but Need to See More
We’re now about a month into this market correction, which to this point has been relatively garden-variety—from the high in early September to its low earlier this week, the S&P 500 slipped 5.9%, while growth-oriented indexes did bit...
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
U.S. crude oil hit a seven-year high as stocks, especially tech stocks, face headwinds. Today I am moving dominator Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) to a Sell as Taiwan, America, China and Japan play a dangerous game. China sent 52 warplanes into the islands air buffer after...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1481
Market Iffy, but Growth Stocks Buoyant
Back when I started at Cabot in 1999, it was the middle of the internet bubble, which itself occurred at the tail end of what was a massive five-year run in the market. Every dip was bought, and need...
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Cabot Explorer Bi-weekly Update
A recent survey by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) showed that the percentage of investors who think stocks will rise over the next six months plunged to its lowest level in more than a year.
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Ranking the 5 Best-Performing Gold Mining Stocks
As coronavirus continues to wreak havoc, investors are flocking to gold, a traditional safe haven. And these are the 5 best-performing gold mining stocks.
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Cabot Growth Investor 1480
The Roller Coaster Ride Continues
Back in my younger days I was a big fan of roller coasters—not that it was a regular thing, but whether on vacation to Disney or Universal Studios or just a day trip to a local theme park, I’d hit...
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Cabot Growth Investor 1479
Can Growth Break Free
from the Chop (Part II)
Near the end of July, growth stocks had just suffered a big dip earlier that month, with many falling down toward key support areas. But instead of keeling over, many rebounded nicely, including a few leaders moved...
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