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A few incidents that have received national attention in recent weeks have got me thinking.

The fact that P/E is popular does’t mean that it is always useful. Having more data is not always better.

Publisher Tim Lutts talks about 39 years of stock picking and market timing, the Cabot name, top investing rules, all-time favorite stock and more on the anniversary of Cabot Market Letter’s first issue.

The current stock market is frustrating, but you can pursue strategies that will lead to better performance.

The oldest stock index in use today is the Dow Jones Transportation Average. It was originally composed of 9 railroads.

While mega-cap tech stocks have seized all the headlines, these five stocks have quietly established themselves as the best-performing stocks so far this year.

While long-term prospects for the cannabis industry remain excellent, the sector as a whole remains in correction mode today, with the big Canadian stocks under the greatest pressure—and no one knows where the bottom is, though history tells us it will come when the last holdout capitulates.

Given that today’s date is 4/20, I feel compelled to acknowledge that that’s the code for “time to smoke pot.” But I don’t have any jokes. This is serious business. And it’s doubly serious because we’ve been dealing with a weak sector for over a year!

The only bright spot in that trend is that valuations have become more attractive; if this goes on long enough, I expect Cabot’s value analyst Bruce Kaser will recommend one of these stocks!

Warren Buffett has said, “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.” What about us ordinary investors who can’t wait 10 years? I have an easy solution-- I buy when a stock is undervalued and sell when it becomes overvalued. The time frame is usually about two years. The basic principal is simple: the stock market and the individual stocks that make up the stock market have always bounced back and forth from overvalued to undervalued to overvalued, over and over again.

Consumer spending is rebounding and a lot of strong retail stocks have been appearing in Cabot Top Ten Report recently.

This week’s Friday Update includes our price target increase for one of our energy companies, as well as updates on several recommended companies. We’re not macro-driven, but we are macro-aware, and are thinking about the reserve status of the U.S. dollar. Also, we bid farewell to Ned Johnson, legendary former CEO of Fidelity.

There are a lot of negatives out there these days. The AAII Sentiment Survey shows optimism is in the tank while pessimism is through the roof.

Explorer stocks were all up this past week with the exception of Ford (F) as inflation numbers out this morning are expected to show consumer-price inflation picked up again in January, to an annual pace of 7.2%.

As I mentioned here last week, every July the Dick Davis Digests publish updates on our contributors’ Top Picks for the year (which were first recommended in January). As promised, today I’m highlighting some of those picks that have performed best over the last six months. The first half of 2011...

You may have seen that a relatively new Explorer idea, Fisker (FSR), was up 38% yesterday. It turns out that my analogy of comparing the company to Apple’s relationship to Foxconn was truer than even I could imagine. The news yesterday was that Foxconn will be making a future Fisker model electric vehicle, and even better, it may be doing so in my home state of Wisconsin.

The big news affecting the market this week is the upward trend in coronavirus cases in some states and the resulting concern that an economic rebound will be curbed sooner than hoped.

As far as the market goes, there’s no doubt this coronavirus has thrown a wrench into things.

The MSCI Emerging Market index (EEM) is up 9% so far in 2019 but has basically hit the pause button in March.

NetApp recently earned an appearance in Cabot Top Ten Weekly as Editor’s Choice.

I’m a great believer in the adage that although history doesn’t repeat, it often rhymes. So today I want to review the story of the rise and fall of EMC ... and see if we can learn something from it.