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One of the best ways to put money into great growth stocks is by keeping a list of leading stocks.

I enjoyed reading Cabot Dividend Investor analyst Chloe Lutts Jensen’s reasons for recommending the Dividend Digest Spotlight Stock, including: • Increasing dividends • Diversification • Low valuation • Rising demand Those catalysts rang a bell with me, as they reflect many of the same criteria that investors have utilized for a couple of hundred...

Since bottoming at the end of March, stocks in the marijuana sector have been building a base, with the best stocks in our portfolio still showing a healthy pattern of higher lows. But we still don’t have a renewed uptrend, and that’s OK. We’re patient. What we do have are 200-day moving averages that are coming close to our stocks and that, ideally, will provide support.

Universal Electronics (UEIC) reported earnings yesterday and shares are up 12%. Kraft Heinz (KHC) shares are up over 8% today on news that the company has made a bid to buy Unilever (UN).

For now our positions remain in great shape, and this week we are adding a stock that we successfully traded in March, and has shown no signs of pulling back after an earnings blowout last week.

Today’s recommendation had been in a slow, steady uptrend for years, though it got dented with everything else in March of this year.

After a great start to the year, cloud computing stocks have taken it on the chin this month. Can the IBM-Red Hat deal reinvigorate the sector?

Thinking of buying low on GE stock? Don’t do it! Not yet, at least. Here are four reasons General Electric has much further to fall.

Do you hold any financial stocks in your investment portfolio? Here’s why you should - and also why it might be a bad idea.

You probably hear the term EBITDA get tossed around a lot by investment analysts. But exactly what is EBITDA, and why is it useful?

The market has linked together a few decent days, helped by a better-than-feared jobs report last week (showed wage gains moderating), reopening in China (good for global growth) and greater recognition that higher-growth stocks reflect A LOT of bad news.

Sell Veralto (VLTO); Note on Rivian (RIVN); AST Spacemobile (ASTS) Taking off

Artivion (AORT) Delivers Q2 Beat; Sell Remaining Half of EverQuote (EVER)

The market’s growing volatility is a small area of concern on our mind today; if anything, it should cause you to manage your market exposure a little more carefully; buy low and keep losses small. On the other hand, there are still some very strong stocks out there, and as we all know, trends can persist far longer than expected. Four oil stocks anchor this issue of Cabot Top Ten Report, reflecting the fact that the sector is strong, that it held up extremely well in last Friday’s market dump, and that many mid-sized companies in the sector are attracting institutional investors’ money. As long as the trend continues—and we recognize that it may be overdone in the short-term—we like them all. But our Editors’ Choice is one of the two steel companies in the issue, Gerdau. Benefiting from the fast-growing Brazilian economy but diversified into the rest of South America and North America, it’s got a great track record of growth as well as a chart that’s been building a base for the past month.

Stock Name	Price	Buy Range	Loss Limit
BNI (BNI)	0.00	107-114	-
CXO (CXO)	0.00	35-38	-
ENER (ENER)	0.00	54-62	-
GGB (GGB)	0.00	48-53	-
MDU (MDU)	0.00	32-34	-
ME (ME)	0.00	32-34	-
MT (MT)	0.00	98-102	-
TAP (TAP)	0.00	57-59	-
WLL (WLL)	0.00	100-105	-
AGU (AGU)	0.00	88-93	-

The S&P 600 SmallCap index continues to firm up and even make some progress moving off support near the 102 level (the IJR ETF is at 107 now).

Today’s update is brief, but it does include a couple of important observations about the behavior of cannabis stocks in recent weeks, as well as updates on all the portfolio stocks.