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Dividend Champions are similar to Dividend Aristocrats, only there’s more of them. Here are three that look attractive, writes Sure Dividend.

Smart money has been looking beyond the U.S. at a wide range of global opportunities, and these six overseas small-cap ETFs are a good way to do the same.

Most stocks produce lackluster returns. A recent study¹ by Hendrick Bessembinder, a professor at Arizona State University’s WP Carey School of Business, looked at U.S. stock market returns from 1926 to 2022. Nearly 60% of all stocks detracted from shareholder value during this time period. From 1926 to 2016, half of the total wealth created in the stock market was produced by only 90 stocks. By 2022, the number was only 72 stocks.

The world isn’t providing much good news for emerging market stocks to build on, but the stocks themselves are doing a good job of ignoring that. This doesn’t mean that we have a new buy signal, but there are a growing number of stocks that are putting in bottoming structures and even a few making some progress. With the market looking ahead, we could start to see new leaders emerge in the next few weeks or after EM companies report their quarterly results in a couple of months. There will be plenty of bargains when the turn comes, and we’re featuring an old friend that been in the doldrums for quite a while but boasts a huge story. Read on for all the details.

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This month’s issue of Cabot Marijuana Investor comes a week early, due to Thanksgiving holiday next week. And that’s good, because the sector is finally looking healthy again.

In last week’s update, I recommended averaging up in two stocks and buying two new stocks, and in this week’s issue, I give you the whole picture. It’s not too late to buy.



Full details in the issue.

Large-cap stocks are starting to show some cracks. But small caps aren’t.

After years of underperformance, small-cap stocks appear to finally be poised for a breakout 2026 thanks to a combination of lower interest rates and soaring earnings. So in this month’s Cabot Value Investor issue, we present a small-cap company that is already coming off a very strong quarter, whose sales and earnings have more than doubled since Covid, but whose shares were overly punished last fall and are just now starting the long climb back. The combination of double-digit earnings growth and a well-below-average valuation makes this small cap ripe for our Buy Low Opportunities Portfolio.

Details inside.

Current Market Outlook


The market continues to look fine, with both primary (trend) and secondary (new lows, etc.) evidence boding well—not to mention many of the longer-term signposts like blastoff indicators telling us this is a bull market. But for leading growth stocks, it’s tricky out there; while there haven’t been a rash of breakdowns, there’s plenty of iffy action, with low volume rallies, selling on strength and relatively few stocks hitting new highs. (While the Nasdaq tested new-high ground today, the number of stocks doing so was half of what we saw a week and a half ago.) We certainly don’t think you should be holed up in your bunker, and we’re staying flexible, but given the prolonged run and the recent sloppiness, we think moving closer to shore makes sense, especially if you own some sluggish performers.

Interestingly, while the leaders of the April-July move rest, we’re seeing other names (both growth and cyclical) perk up. This week’s list has plenty of both, and our Top Pick is Quanta Services (PWR), which has decisively broken out on the upside.

Stock Name	Price	Buy Range	Loss Limit
Berry Global (BERY)	64.22	51.5-53.5	47-48
Builders FirstSource (BLDR)	44.12	28-29.5	24.5-25.5
Cerence (CRNC)	107.77	53.5-56.5	46-47
First Solar (FSLR)	83.74	69-72	62-64
HubSpot (HUBS)	582.89	267-277	240-246
Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR)	214.38	116-121	103-105
iRhythm Technologies (IRTC)	51.15	168-174	149-152
L Brands (LB)	79.48	26-28	22.5-23.5
Quanta Services (PWR)	91.45	48.5-51.5	42.5-44
Shift4 Payments (FOUR)	89.97	47.5-49.5	42-44

Most investors and consumers are well aware of how reliant we are on China’s economic production and consumption, but that reliance is far more important than many realize.

Talking about sell disciplines can feel like admitting defeat, but it’s not.

The major indexes were mixed today, with the Dow up 29 points and the Nasdaq down 37 points.

The latest issue of Cabot Marijuana Investor is now available, with my current advice on the fourteen stocks in the portfolio.

The cannabis sector remains in a correction, but the new year brings the promise of a great rebound, and I want you to be in the stocks that will benefit most, so, while there hasn’t been much news over the past week, I do include full updates on each stock in the portfolio so you can best decide which stocks fit your own portfolio.

Also, the portfolio remains 25% in cash, waiting for the sector’s main trend to turn up.

Full details in the issue.

We’re sticking with a cautious stance—selling stocks that crack, holding plenty of cash and focusing more on capital preservation until the buyers reappear.

Remain bullish, but continue to keep your antennae up. The Nasdaq has pushed to new highs, our trend-following indicators are positive and most leading stocks remain in uptrends, so we’re still in a bullish frame of mind.

The economy is still solid and the trade war thaw is taking away a big headline risk for the market.

Emerging and global markets struggled this week as our Emerging Market Timer remained negative, with the EEM clearly trading below its 20-day and 50-day moving averages.

Last week’s “big” market-moving events (Federal Reserve and Jobs Report) brought further selling as the S&P 500 fell 3.25%, the Dow lost 2.25%, and the Nasdaq dropped 5.88%.

The major indexes had another good day, today—both the Dow and Nasdaq rose 162 points.