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The underperformance of the formerly dominant Mag. 7 has lately earned those stocks the dismissive moniker of the “Lag 7,” but are they too cheap to pass up?

Newsmax (NMAX) shares rose 2,550% in the days immediately following the cable news company’s IPO, but a look at the S-1 shows it’s just another meme stock.

“VOO and chill” has become internet shorthand for low-cost index fund investing. It’s good advice for some investors, but is it really all you need?

Cannabis legalization is spreading but cannabis stocks are trading near all-time lows, which leaves these four industry leaders poised for a rebound.

Tinder is the fastest-growing dating app, and Match Group’s (MTCH) sales are skyrocketing now that the company has figured out how to monetize it.

Here’s an update on the stock which rating has been upped to BUY.

Many traders and large hedge funds trade strictly in merger arbitrage. These traders look at deals that have already been announced, and examine the deal terms and the levels the stocks are trading. If they think the chances of the merger going through are great, but the stock being acquired is trading below where it “should,” they see opportunity and will often buy shares (or call options or take some other bullish position). In the case of Pfizer-Allergan, there was plenty of “opportunity.”

My favorite mortgage REIT for this low-interest-rate environment is Starwood Property Trust stock. Here are several reasons why.

“The only way for a REIT to have done well between early 2007 and the March 2009 bottom would have been to have vanished and then reemerged after the storm, which brings us to two REITs, neither of which had to suffer through those 25 months: Pan Pacific Realty, which...

Running stock screens is a great way to find potential investment candidates, especially if you already have established requirements for new investments based on your investing system. But it can also be interesting to run stock screens just out of curiosity. Checking on which stocks have the highest yields, or lowest...

I’ve been pounding the table on “takeover stocks” for half a year now.

An arbitrage trade is as close as you can get to free money in the stock market, but it’s not without its risks.

Today’s and next week’s issues of Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor are going to look a bit different. I won’t be reviewing all of our portfolio stocks today. Many Wall Street analysts are on vacation, so there will be very little in the way of changes in earnings estimates or new research reports for several weeks.

What a difference a week makes. Last Friday, it seemed the market was in a death spiral and it was hard to make sense out of the volatility. This week has been downright placid, and all the major indexes are up nicely. Since last week’s update, the S&P 600 Small Cap Index is up by 5%.

There’s a lot more to “buying low” than just identifying falling prices.

The market is getting stronger and higher-growth names are leading the charge.

This month we dig into an overlooked company with a global payments platform that’s helping solve digital payment challenges in complex industries.



Growth is expected to be over 30% for a number of years, and the stock is acting well.



Enjoy!

In our final Explorer issue of 2023, we add a new artificial intelligence play whose revenues are on track to expand by nearly 50% this year, and whose share price has more than tripled YTD - and yet trades well below its July highs. Back on the upswing, it’s worth buying now.

Enjoy, and happy holidays!

This week the Fed left interests rates again unchanged and Super Micro Computer (SMCI) became part of the S&P 500 index. An announcement of a two million convertible shares offering by Super Micro led to a pullback in the stock though long term, it’s smart to raise capital after the sharp rise in the share price.

Elsewhere, Washington is fixated on the potential push to force a change in the ownership of TikTok while China, as strongly expected, objects. This is a bit ironic since X, Instagram, Facebook, and Google aren’t available to Chinese citizens.