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Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: the presidential election.

No, I’m not going to touch the political ramifications of Biden vs. Trump, Round 2 with an 11-foot pole. For investors, that doesn’t matter. What matters is what typically happens to the stock market in election years. In the 20 presidential election years since 1944, the S&P 500 is up an average of 7.2% - not terrible, but well shy of the average 10% annual gain in the benchmark index.

Since Halloween, the last seven times I have made a call in Cabot Cannabis Investor to buy the AdvisorShares MSOS 2X Daily (MSOX) in sector weakness, the exchange-traded fund has gone up 68% on average over the next one to seven weeks.

The last time I made a trading call to buy the cannabis sector was on May 29.

Since that was less than two weeks ago and the maximum time to profit after trading calls is seven weeks, I am not too concerned about the flat performance of cannabis stocks since then.

The marijuana sector peaked in February, bottomed from late March to mid-April, and since then has been building a base, preparing for a resumption of the big advance.

Fundamentals in the industry remain terrific, and the trend toward legalization in the U.S. continues, so it’s only a matter of time before these stocks enjoy their next upwave—perhaps as second quarter reports begin to be released next week.



In the portfolio today the one small change is that we’ll sell half our position in TerrAscend (TRSSF) and move the proceeds into Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR).



Full details in the issue.

Identifying the best IRA investments is less a matter of asset performance and more a matter of asset type and tax considerations.

October hasn’t been accompanied by the type of stock selling we’ve witnessed the last two years, when U.S. markets fell sharply in October and reached a second-half-of-the-year bottom both times. Instead, this October has wrought a more subtle disappointment: rising interest rates.

Indeed, despite the Fed’s 50-basis point cut to the federal funds rate in mid-September ringing in a new era of rate slashing, 10-year Treasury yields have risen steadily since the calendar flipped to October, going from 3.80% to 4.24% – their highest level since July. In fact, Treasury yields are up 15% since September 18, the day the Fed cut rates for the first time in four and a half years.

Today we have another installment in our Dick Davis Digests contributor series. Today’s contributor is Neil Macneale, editor of 2 for 1 Stock Split Newsletter. I decided to interview Neil after his Top Pick for 2012 was acquired last month, giving his subscribers (and some of ours) a nice 36%...

There are several general strategies you can use to manage your winning stocks. Here is a range of possibilities to consider.

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

Cloudflare (NET) reported Q4 results yesterday that surpassed expectations. Revenue was up 54% to $193.6 million while adjusted EPS came in at $0.01. As compared to some other software stocks that have beat expectations, Cloudflare reinvested the surplus cash in growth initiatives, so it didn’t flow to the bottom line.

The broad market remains in fine health, with the major indexes trending higher and sentiment measures still bullish. Thus I continue to recommend that you be heavily invested in a diversified portfolio of stocks that fit your investment needs.

Last week’s recommendation was an undervalued cyclical business, and this week we swing back to a fast-growing cloud software stock with strong momentum and big upward potential.

As we begin the second half of the year, the odds continue to favor higher prices for the market down the road, so we remain in a generally bullish stance. Of course, the short-term will likely be news driven (trade talk, war fears and earnings season), but the big picture is looking sunny.
Individual growth stocks are a bit more divergent, with some looking tired but other, newer leaders looking peppy.

Thank you for subscribing to the Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor. We hope you enjoy reading the October 2021 issue.

Volatility is a value/contrarian investors’ friend. With the markets becoming more volatile, we’ve made some changes to the portfolio this past month. We recently added ConocoPhillips (COP), a major oil and gas producer that is also an undervalued cash flow machine at current commodity prices.

For today’s Dividend Edition of Investment of the Week, I wanted to introduce investing with dividend reinvestment plans, or DRIPs. We have two Dick Davis Digest contributors who focus exclusively on investing with DRIPs, and others who recommend them occasionally. So DRIPs appear in the Digests fairly regularly, and I...

Netflix has undoubtedly altered the movie rental business and it’s stock has done well, too.

Pay attention to what the market does, not the news of the day.

Altair (ALTR) buys Datawatch (DWCH) and IntriCon (IIN) Reports

Ahead of a big week for the market, the S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq all rose marginally last week.

Walt Disney Company (DIS) has its fingers in every corner of the entertainment business.