Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The big recent developments since I wrote last Thursday are the rise in Covid cases in Europe, and that Jerome Powell got the nod for another term leading the Fed.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
The market is beginning to more fully anticipate a post-Covid environment and economy. As such, investors are looking to slower/normalized/sustainable growth following the bulge from the pandemic stimulus programs and pent-up demand, higher interest rates, and a relenting of supply chain issues.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
On to the market. It was a funkier week than last week, though big picture nothing has changed. We are moving into the tail end of earnings season so we may see a more moderate amount of investor interest over the next two weeks.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
We continue to watch in amazement the values that the market puts on electric vehicle makers, with the most recent example of Rivian Automotive (RIVN). Since its IPO at $78/share, RIVN shares have doubled, making the EV company’s roughly 900 million shares worth total...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
It’s been sort of an odd week because, while the focus has been on individual companies, there’s been some macro stuff driving erratic trading action.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Like nature, stock markets have seasons. We experienced a brief but frigid winter about 18 months ago when nearly every stock wilted as capital markets froze (no pun intended, mostly).
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor 1121
A hundred years from now, the average citizen will wonder aloud when they think about how oil was used in transportation… “you mean they actually burned that stuff!?”
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
This week has been all about earnings, even though we’ve only heard from one company in our portfolio. That company is Repligen (RGEN), which reported this morning (the stock is reacting well). Notes on that report are below.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
We’re watching with wonder how Tesla is now a $1 trillion company and that Elon Musk, by himself, is worth more than all of ExxonMobil. There is some poetic irony that the pioneer of electric vehicles and solar panels is outshining (no pun the...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
As we move closer to earnings season for our portfolio holdings (really gets underway the week after next) we see many small-cap growth names (and growth stocks in general) recovering nicely from the drawdowns in late September.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
A few weeks ago, at the annual Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago, two investing icons debated the merits of value versus growth. On the value side was Rob Arnott, founder and head of Research Affiliates, with Cathie Wood, founder and head of ARK Management,...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The biggest stories this week weren’t all that different from last week, namely supply chains, interest rates/inflation, and Covid. But this week has a decidedly different feel to it, possibly because we’ve added earnings season into the mix and, so far, that’s going well...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Last week, we wrote about how lower quality, in both home appliances and tangible money, debases value and is a form of inflation. Today’s note includes some of our current views on inflation and capital markets, and what investors can do to help inflation’s...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor 1021
In the olden days, when kings and governments minted coins made of gold and silver, people were tempted to shave tiny amounts off the edges of the coins, thus stealing some value for themselves.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
After a delayed rection to last week’s Fed commentary Treasury yields have shot up (though they are still very low). To put it in mortgage rate terms a 30-yr. refi has gone from around 2.875% to 3.0% over the last week.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
Across almost the entire length of the yield curve, interest rates are ticking up. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield reached 1.53% and may be headed back toward its December 2019 rate of about 1.90%. In an economy that is showing rapid growth, with well...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The big developments over the last week have been the situation with the potential failure of Evergrande (Chinese property developer) and interest rates. As of mid-morning Thursday, we appear to be moving past these potential issues.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
It’s not news that the stock market has been sloppy lately. After the steady march upward to a doubling of the S&P 500 from the early 2020 low, and a 33% increase from year-end 2019 before the pandemic, one can hardly be disappointed the...
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor Weekly Update
After a stunningly strong market so far this year, with the S&P 500 producing a 20% total return through Monday, the slow grind-down of most stocks since early September has seemed interminable. The 1,100 largest stocks in our 3,000-stock database have declined only in...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The S&P 500 has finally failed to make a new high every day lately and is 2% below the high-water mark! That doesn’t seem like it should be news but in this market it’s worth noting.
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