It’s been a tough year for investors in cannabis stocks, and in the broad market as well, as all major indexes are in downtrends.

Yet prospects for the cannabis industry remain bright, as state-by-state legalization trends continue.



But until trends turn up, there’s no urgency to buy, so our portfolio sits roughly half in cash, waiting for the upturn.



Full details in the issue.



Yours for wealth and wisdom.

Thank you for subscribing to the Cabot Turnaround Letter. We hope you enjoy reading the June 2022 issue.



While the stock market has surged since its pandemic low, shares of many companies have sold off sharply and now trade below their March 23, 2020 level. We touch on several different types of situations behind these sell-offs and highlight five stocks backed by reasonably healthy companies yet trade at attractive valuations. We also mention one additional stock that has significant potential but not under the current value-destroying management.



We delve into the investment management industry and highlight four stocks of companies that look appealing but are not generally on investors’ radar screens. Our featured recommendation this month is investment firm Janus Henderson Group (JHG). The company produces strong free cash flow, has a fortress balance sheet, offers an attractive 5.7% dividend yield and is under pressure from activist investor Trian Partners to improve its results.



We note our recent ratings change of Altria Group (MO) from Buy to a Sell.

Titanium, an under-covered market on Wall Street, has the unlikely distinction of now being one of the top-performing metals.

This metal, along with lithium and steelmaking coal, grabbed the top spots in terms of overall performance and has provided us with a solid performance in an otherwise soft metals broad market.



Elsewhere, steel should strengthen while gold and silver both have a good chance to turn around in the coming weeks.



I continue to recommend that we maintain a mostly defensive stance.

Despite some optimism early last week, the sellers obliterated that hope Wednesday through Friday, as the indexes fell sharply, pushing the S&P 500 into an official bear market (down 20% from its highs).

Today, I simply want to go over the ins and outs of the service so that you can efficiently and effectively take advantage of all the content provided including details on issues, trade alerts, webinars and more.

That being said, expect to start seeing several trade alerts over the next week. I will begin trickling out positions over the five different portfolios over the next few weeks. So have an understanding of what each portfolio is trying to accomplish.

If you dug into any financial news this weekend, you were likely inundated by tons of bearishness that have arisen due to so many uncertainties, but when it comes to the market, it’s best to just keep it simple and focus on the action itself: The intermediate-term trend of the indexes and vast majority of stocks remains down, with only a few special situation names and some commodity-related titles able to buck the trend. We would say that, just in the past week, far fewer stocks joined the indexes at new correction lows, but we need to see such rays of light lead to real, sustained buying pressures to take action on them. We advise remaining defensive.


Not surprisingly, this week’s list doesn’t have many stocks near new high ground, but we are seeing many that reacted well to earnings and have shown some positive volume clues. Our Top Pick is one of them, a new name in the resilient shipping group.

We are officially in the doldrums between earnings seasons. But an opportunity or two can still be found each week. And while the offseason earnings trades oftentimes lack all of the necessities for an actual trade, it’s still worth taking a look at potential trades as we patiently wait for another upcoming earnings season, if only for educational purposes.

Welcome to Cabot Options Institute’s Income Trader!

In today’s issue, we aren’t going to do any heavy lifting. No market commentary, just an overview of Income Trader and what to expect going forward. We will have plenty of time to get into the nitty-gritty. Today, I simply want to go over the ins and outs of the service so that you can efficiently and effectively take advantage of all the content provided including details on issues, trade alerts, webinars and more.

The market remains quite weak, and thus ripe for a major rally at any time. But until we see real strength, continued caution is advised.


In the meantime, you may want to nibble on today’s innovative consumer footwear stock, especially if you’re a customer.


As for the portfolio, we’re selling two stocks, cutting losses short so they don’t grow larger.


Note: next week’s issue will be published on Tuesday, due to the Memorial Day holiday.

In today’s issue, we aren’t going to do any heavy lifting. No market commentary, just an overview of Quant Trader and what to expect going forward. We will have plenty of time to get into the nitty-gritty. Today, I simply want to go over the ins and outs of the service so that you can efficiently and effectively take advantage of all the content provided including details on issues, trade alerts, webinars and more.

My suggestion is take your time to read through everything. Get comfortable with the approach, strategies used and write down questions as you go along. Don’t hesitate to send me emails as you go through all of the content. That’s why I’m here.

The market’s downtrend remains in place, with the trends of the major indexes and growth stocks still solidly down, and just as important, we’re still seeing many blowups among individual names, with retail stocks like Target and Walmart going over the falls this week. Thus, we remain defensive, with north of 80% in cash.
That said, we’re not joining the growing chorus of super-bears out there--there are tons of extremes when it comes to the selling and sentiment that a low could come at any time. We’re not predicting that, but we are spending most of our time hunting for new leaders--and interestingly, we’re seeing a few candidates even after the recent down move, writing about most of them in this issue.

In the May Issue of Cabot Early Opportunities, we spread things around, taking a look at a rising MedTech star, a possible breakout biotech stock, a boring discount retailer, an oil and gas income play and a familiar apparel manufacturer.
Enjoy!

Election season is now in full swing. In less than seven weeks, or only 49 days, the country will select its next president, representatives from all 435 House congressional districts, 35 senators and 12 state governors.

The beautiful thing about micro-caps is that you can invest in stocks that are both “growth” and “value.”

The market has served up a good deal of volatility lately and for the most part our stocks have handled it well (so far).

Markets were abuzz this week with talk of a “tech meltdown,” with Tesla (TSLA) getting hit rather hard on Tuesday, falling more than 20% before bouncing back 10% yesterday.

After a stratospheric 60% rise from the March low, the S&P 500 pulled back 7% in the last few days.

The recent (and ongoing?) tech momentum reversal appears to be due to a variety of concerns ranging from doubt about valuations, worries about the pace of the economy’s recovery, the lack of another stimulus package and slowing growth in the Federal Reserve’s asset purchases.

The overall market remains in an uptrend, but we’re seeing more and more unusual action among individual growth names, and thus are making moves mostly on a stock-by-stock basis.

The market indexes continue to soar to new all time highs with no signs of stopping, despite the fact that the virus is still hanging around and economy is still beaten up.

Labor Day marks the start of a new year of sorts and a rebirth of seriousness in the collective psyche. The other side of Labor Day is a new ballgame, when investors shake off the apathy of summer and refocus with intensity.

One benefit of investing in micro-caps is that you can talk to management.

This e-commerce company beat analysts’ estimates by $0.12 last quarter and is expected to grow by 42.9% next year.

This CRM software company is expected to grow 42.1% next year.

Shares of one of our oldest positions are trading off more than 10% today after Bank of America analysts downgraded the stock to neutral from buy and trimmed their price target to 150 from 162.

Continue to take things on a stock-by-stock basis. We’ve seen a buyers’ strike during the past two weeks, with many stocks and indexes falling under their own weight; our Cabot Tides buy signal has vanished, with the market now nine weeks into a rest after the March-August advance.

This portfolio stock reported Q3 results this morning before the market opened. As expected, the company delivered outstanding results that surpassed expectations on both the top and bottom lines.

This cybersecurity firm beat analysts’ estimates by $0.17 last quarter.

We’re selling one stock and buying another half on two others.

Market gyrations have discounted this cloud-monitoring stock to an even better buyable level.

The fund has an annual current dividend yield of 3.52%, paid quarterly.

We are raising Duluth Holdings (DLTH) price target to 17.50 from 15.

In the past 30 days, 15 analysts have increased their EPS estimates for this Canadian bank.

Wall Street expects this P&C insurance carrier to grow at a rate of 20.4% next year.

Our Cabot Top Ten Trader’s market timing system consists of two parts—one based on the action of three select, growth-oriented market indexes, and the other based on the action of the fast-moving stocks Cabot Top Ten features.