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The evidence has clearly improved during the past week or two, and that’s a good thing; we’re putting another couple of toes back into the water tonight, adding two half-sized positions in what we think can be leaders of the next uptrend. That said, we’re content to go slow for now, mostly because, while selling pressures have eased, buying power really hasn’t shown up yet, and until it does, there’s a chance the bears could reappear.

Still, overall, we’re increasingly optimistic, so we think putting a little money to work and then listening to the market’s clues makes sense. Get all the latest inside tonight’s issue.

Marijuana stocks are red hot, but it’s hard to choose the right ones. These four marijuana index funds and ETFs give you exposure to the entire industry.

It’s hard to ignore Halloween if you work in Salem, Massachusetts. And with the Big Day falling on a Saturday this year and the weather nice, it will likely be an even bigger deal than usual. A quick walk through Salem’s downtown at any time of year will reveal enough witch shops, fortune-tellers and scary museums to satisfy your taste for the weird.

Last year, after much soul-searching, I decided to trade in my trusty 1998 Toyota Avalon in favor of a smaller, better-for-the-environment car--2009 Toyota Matrix. According to Toyota, the 1998 Avalon gets 19 miles per gallon city and 27 miles per gallon highway, not bad for such a large car. But the Matrix gets 26 miles per gallon city and 32 miles per gallon highway. At the time, there was no such thing as the Cash for Clunkers program that’s available now. My Avalon wouldn’t have been eligible anyway, as it comes in well above the 18 combined mile-per-gallon qualifying mark. Well the program, which is supposed to run from July 1 to November 1, has been such a hit that it has already run out of funding. Congress has just added an additional $2 billion to the nearly depleted $1 billion the program started with.

Three retail stocks reported earnings.

After the latest jobs report, the Fed is almost sure to raise interest rates this week. That’s good news for one small cap stock in particular.

My investing idea for today is about a beaten down sector that was the market’s Fair-Haired Boy just a few months ago. Back when crude oil was sailing along at $140 a barrel (and higher), everyone knew that solar cells were the wave of the future. Silicon was in short supply and companies like First Solar made heroic runs. FSLR began 2007 trading under 30 and peaked in May 2008 at over 300. That’s a winner in anyone’s book!

Guest Editor Nathan Slaughter discusses why spinoffs can be profitable investments.

I’ve written here before about why undervalued stocks are a dividend investor’s best friend. In short, yields go up when prices go down, so buying dividend-paying stocks when they’re undervalued is a good way to “lock in” higher yields for your portfolio. In today’s Dividend Edition, I have two timely ideas...

A recent Goldman Sachs analysis highlighted the features that lead to outperformance by IPOs, so we applied those criteria to 2021’s IPO slate and found only one company that ticked the boxes.

This week, we comment on results from General Electric (GE), Mattel (MAT), Polaris (PII), Vodafone (VOD), Volkswagen AG (VWAGY), Western Union (WU) and Xerox Holdings (XRX).

Next week, twelve companies are scheduled to report.

We also include the Catalyst Report and a summary of the August edition of the Cabot Turnaround Letter, which was published on Wednesday. We encourage you to look through the Catalyst Report. This report is a listing of all of the companies that have reported a catalyst in the past month. These catalysts include new CEOs, activist activity, spin-offs and other possible game-changers. We source many of our feature recommendations from this list. You will find it nowhere else on Wall Street.

Our Emerging Markets Timer is still positive and constructive, though the EEM was essentially flat during the last week.

Our portfolio’s earnings season kicked off with a bang last night with three companies opening their books from Q3. As I expected the reactions were significant and unpredictable. We took partial profits on all positions ahead of earnings and have kept them rated hold into the events.

Not much has changed with the market during the past week, so we’re sticking with our stance—the Model Portfolio has 40% in cash and holding six resilient stocks. We continue to believe the next major market move is up, but in the near-term, you should take your cues from the market and individual stocks. We have no changes tonight.

Thus far, the 11 portfolio companies that delivered second-quarter results have all met or exceeded Wall Street’s consensus earnings estimates.

The number of Internet users will surpass two billion by the end of 2010.

Many of oil service companies have the numbers that should keep buyers interested for a while.

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



Rivian Automotive’s (RIVN) initial public offering, which arrives next week at a likely $60 billion valuation, has us thinking more deeply about General Motors (GM). Investors are assigning little value to its EV and other advanced technologies, which strikes us as incompatible with the valuations of Tesla, Rivian and other EV start-ups. But, perhaps this is right, due to the enormous capital spending that GM has committed to. These vast cash outflows may eliminate the present value of the EVs. We share some of our thinking on this.