Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The Japanese phrase, hara hachi bu, translates into something like “belly 80 percent full,” or “eat until you are eight parts full.”
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks 315
Market Views
In Recovery
Larger stocks led this week’s comeback with growth stocks picking up the most interest. Our FAANG Index bounced off its low, however I am still expecting a long recovery time for these stocks. For the market as a whole we have a..
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor 1218
Another Dow 30 Shakeup is Coming
November brought some significant news about General Motors (GM) and United Technologies (UTX), while General Electric (GE) continues to invite investor inquiries. As our portfolio stocks experience share price recoveries alongside the broader market, in the aftermath of October...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
We have three changes in the portfolio this week.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
I think we can all use a break from this market, and there’s no new fundamental news related to any of our positions. So today I’m just going speak for a few minutes on the state of the market and small caps.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The major market indexes have been retracing their steps back to their late-October lows. With the trend down, it should come as no surprise that most of our stocks lost ground over the last five trading days, too.
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Daily Alert – 11/16/18
This big pharma beat earnings estimates by $0.24 last quarter, and 14 analysts have increased their EPS forecasts for the company in the past 30 days.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The market’s volatility is a relatively normal correction. But for now, my plan is to keep making incremental moves to try to limit risk and pursue opportunities. Hopefully that will mean a number of positions move back to buy in November but there one...
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks 314
Market Views
Can Go Either Way
Resistance for the QQQ remains between 172.00 and 174.00. Support is between 165.00 and 168.00. A break below 165.00 would imply 162.50 is likely. A break below 162.50 would suggest the low on 10/29 at 160.09 will not hold a..
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor 1118
Apple (AAPL) Redux
Welcome to November, holiday season, winter’s coming, and mid-term elections! As if a stock market correction wasn’t providing enough excitement…
Today I’m doing something slightly different. I normally feature one stock from each of our three portfolios in the monthly issue. Today of...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The market hates uncertainty and it is getting it by the bucket-full right now. If you need a simple explanation for this volatility, that’s it.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The big news this week is that we: (1) recovered some of last week’s losses and (2) have a notable acquisition in the small cap cloud software space.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
I want to cover three things today: (1) possible reasons behind the stock market swoon, (2) what to expect over the next couple of months, and (3) what opportunities to look for both within and beyond our current portfolio.
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks 313
Market Views
Looking for a Sharp Pullback
Predicting exactly when the market will bottom is always a random guessing game at best. I offer no forecast as to when, or at what level, the major averages will hit their final lows. Based on the huge in...
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The Simple Reason Small Caps Are Surging in 2018
Small caps have outperformed large-cap stocks by a wide margin in 2018, hitting a new milestone this week. The reason behind the outperformance is simple.
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Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor 1018
General Electric: Still a Hot Mess
This week, General Electric (GE) announced that, after a brief tenure, CEO and Chairman John Flannery is being replaced by Larry Culp, former CEO of Danaher Corp. Don’t get all excited about Larry Culp, nor about yesterday’s jump GE’s...
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Big picture, things still look reasonably good out there. That said, we’ve seen persistent, but not severe, weakness in small-cap stocks since the beginning of September.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
The undercurrents we felt in the market last week bubbled to the surface this week as value-oriented sectors opened a modest performance gap as compared to growth-oriented sectors.
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Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Weekly Update
Small caps made no net new progress over the past week but we definitely saw some movement under the surface. This week we’re pulling back just a little given some softening in momentum stocks. A few positions were moved to hold, but for we’re...
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Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks 312
Market Views
It’s the Earnings that Count
History shows that stock prices generally have followed earnings, so it is nice to see actual and projected EPS moving up, even as earnings forecasts often turn out to be too rosy. Happily, the number of companies (79.8%) expectations...
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