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Everybody (including me) loves Warren Buffett. He’s rich. He’s a major philanthropist who actively exhorts other rich people to give away their money. And he looks like an ideal grandfather ought to look: gray, smiling and enjoying life. But I do think Warren Buffett has a little bit of a regret, and it’s this ...

In this week’s video, Mike delivers some good news: He’s gotten a buy signal! Mike’s intermediate-term indicator has flashed a green light.

Current Market Outlook


The market had been a bit wobbly, but last week brought a bunch of good-looking earnings reactions (not just the mega-cap names on Friday), which has put the sellers back on their heels—the Nasdaq actually kissed new high ground today! Of course, earnings season isn’t over, so it’s possible we see some air pockets emerge, and some of the blemishes we’ve been writing about still exist (the number of new highs continue to dry up a bit even as the Nasdaq pushes ahead). Because of all that, we still think picking your stocks and buy points is important; try to avoid chasing any old thing just because it’s going up. But there’s no question most of the evidence remains bullish, so we advise you to stick with a heavily invested position and buy fresh leaders either on initial pullbacks or powerful earnings moves.

This week’s list has a growth-ier feel as we highlight many of the recent earnings winners. Our Top Pick is Qualcomm (QCOM), which won’t be the fastest horse but just emerged from a huge consolidation and has giant earnings estimates thanks to a huge deal and the 5G boom.

Stock Name	Price	Buy Range	Loss Limit
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)	82.24	72.5-75.5	63-65
Fortune Brands Home & Security (FBHS)	81.02	74-77	66-68
GenMark Diagnostics (GNMK)	15.47	17-18.5	14.5-15.5
Kirkland Lake Gold (KL)	51.30	49-52	43.5-45.5
Pinduoduo (PDD)	87.53	91-96	78-81
Penn National Gaming (PENN)	45.38	34-36.5	29.5-30.5
Pinterest (PINS)	35.86	33.5-37	28.5-30
QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM)	106.36	106-110	94-96
Qorvo (QRVO)	129.47	127-131	114-116
Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG)	155.72	154-159	139-142

Investing isn’t something they teach you in school (usually). If you want to learn to be a good investor, you’re going to have to educate yourself.

If you’re like most of us, chances are good that much of your retirement money is held in a 401(k) or other tax-deferred retirement plan that is allocated to stock markets and bond funds.

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Editor’s Note: For most of its run, Chief Analyst Carl Delfeld has referred to the Cabot Global Stocks Explorer advisory by its short-hand name, “The Explorer.” So we figured we’d join him! We have decided to shorten the name of this publication to simply, “Cabot Explorer.” The product won’t change at all. This merely puts more emphasis on the purpose of this advisory, which is to “explore” for new, often hard-to-find stocks and sectors ready to break out - regardless of market. Enjoy!

Markets seem to be paying more attention to valuations and looking to confirmation from earnings that the economy is moving to growth mode. Stocks are likely to churn a bit for a while after their great uptrend in the last year. We’ll discuss today why SPACs have cooled a bit even as they spread to Asia, and present a new idea to watch which offers huge growth potential but may be a bit pricey.

Current Market Outlook


Stocks notched another solid week, with most major indexes rising 1.5% or so and a bunch of stocks going along for the ride. We saw the S&P 500, S&P 400 Midcap, Nasdaq, NYSE Composites and the NYSE Advance-Decline line all hit new highs. That’s bullish! We’re also encouraged by the increasing number of powerful earnings reactions we’re seeing, with many stocks surging on their heaviest volume in over a year. Short-term, pullbacks and shakeouts are always possible, but looking at the big picture, we saw the market blast out of an 18-month trading range in November, consolidate tightly for two months through January, and now resume its uptrend, with more stocks and sectors participating. All told, we’ll bump our Market Monitor up another notch to level 9 (out of 10).

This week’s list has another crop of very strong stocks, most of which have either gapped up on earnings or are just emerging from consolidations. Our Top Pick is ON Semiconductor (ON), a chip firm that just blew away estimates and is expecting huge bottom-line growth thanks in part to its acquisition of Fairchild.

Stock Name	Price	Buy Range	Loss Limit
Arista Networks (ANET)	0.00	115-120	102-105
NetEase, Inc. (NTES)	0.00	285-295	260-265
ON Semiconductor (ON)	24.07	14.5-15.5	13.5-14
Paycom Software (PAYC)	0.00	51-53	47-48.5
Portola Pharmaceuticals (PTLA)	0.00	29.5-31.5	26-27
Shopify (SHOP)	585.00	56.5-61.5	50-53
TIM Participacoes (TSU)	0.00	15-15.5	13.8-14.2
TTM Technologies (TTMI)	0.00	15.8-16.8	14.5-15
United States Steel Corporation (X)	0.00	37.5-39.5	35-36
Wix.com (WIX)	302.53	58-62	52-55

Even when the headlines are bad, there are always opportunities in the market, and these three stocks offer resiliency and compelling stories.

The bull market is alive and well, as both of Cabot’s trend-following market-timing indicators are now positive, so I continue to recommend that you be heavily invested.

Today’s recommendation is a fast-growing company helping businesses in the cloud, one of today’s major growth themes. Aggressive investors should love it.



However, the addition of this stock means I need to sell one, and the unfortunate victim is the stock that’s our biggest loser (not that we have many).



Full details in the issue.

The bull market remains alive and well, with major indexes hitting new highs in the last week. However, growth stocks in particular have been hit hard recently—finally spilling into the broad market in the last few trading days—and that requires some selling, so today we’re purging four of our weakest performers from the portfolio. As for new buying, today’s recommended stock is growing by consolidating a fragmented mature industry. It just came public this year, so it’s a name few investors are aware of. The stock was originally recommended by Tyler Laundon in Cabot Early Opportunities.

Details inside.



Lastly, I hope you’ll join me for the 9th Annual Smarter Investing, Greater Profits Online Conference, August 17-19. We have an incredible lineup of experts ready to share their best picks.

Our comments on recommended companies that reported earnings, news on several companies and some brief thoughts about the effects of the war in Ukraine on investments.

Most of our recommended stocks are acting great, and our new recommendation checks many of the boxes we look for when hunting for a long-term winner. It is a dominant restaurant company in China, and the stock just got going after a few months of base-building.

Yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting and Tuesday’s consumer price index data showed inflation and interest rate hikes are pausing but remains well above what markets would like.

Overall inflation is cooling in large part because energy prices have fallen sharply — a huge relief for consumers. But the core gauge, which excludes energy and food prices, shows inflation is still too high.

Nevertheless, investors welcomed the news as it spurred markets and confidence that the market performance might advance beyond big tech and the artificial intelligence (AI) story.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell again threw a wrench into the market by warning that a couple of more interest rates hikes are probable this year. “The process of getting inflation down to 2% has a long way to go,” he told the House Financial Services Committee during a three-hour hearing. Not sure why they don’t get this over with.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in America on his first official state visit with India’s geopolitical pull higher than at any point since he took power in 2014.

Investors who subscribe to Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor run the gamut from speculative investors who are looking for very short-term profits to buy-and-hold investors who want to build a portfolio full of good, market-leading companies like FedEx (FDX) and Amazon (AMZN).