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Welcome to our 2026 TOP PICKS issue! This is one of my favorite issues each year as our Cabot analysts take a deep look at their portfolios and share their top stock ideas for 2026.

You’ll find a well-diversified selection of stocks—growth, value, dividend payers, metals, technology, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and much more!

I hope you’ll find one or more to your liking!

Quick note: Because next Monday is Memorial Day, our next issue of Top Ten will be published Tuesday after the close, May 28.

The market’s good-looking rebound continued last week, with big-cap indexes notching new highs and most other indexes close to doing so. Granted, a lot of individual stocks are still battling with resistance from their prior highs in February/March and many growth names are set to report earnings during the next couple of weeks. Throw in the fact that sentiment has definitely gotten a bit complacent again and you want to pick your stocks and entry points carefully. Still, right now the intermediate-term trends are up for the market’s major indexes and most leading and potential leading stocks. We’ll keep our Market Monitor at a level 8.

This week’s list has a lot of enticing names, with some showing power and others set up nicely to break out if the bulls remain in control. Our Top Pick is a retail name that appears to be finally getting going after a long, tedious consolidation.

One of the stocks in our portfolio is involved in a merger. I virtually always advise investors to sell upon receiving buyout offers. However, I admit that owning a debt-free oilfield service company in today’s stock market is enticing. I’ll make my recommendation within a few days.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average celebrated 125 Years yesterday as the index has increased an average of 7.7% each year. Markets continue to consolidate and churn with solid earnings offsetting concerns over inflation and valuations. This week Virgin Galactic (SPCE) took off while overall Explorer positions moved forward. Today’s new recommendation is a big data software stock that is in an uptrend on the back of some big government contracts. Enjoy!

The best mid-cap stocks to buy now share similar traits: good business models and reliable sales and earnings growth. Here are three that come to mind.

Growth investing and value investing are two primary investment strategies. But it’s important to know exactly how each strategy works.

Small business owners are largely being left out of the inflation conversation, but they’re feeling the pain nonetheless. Fortunately, you can take steps to combat inflation in your own small business.

The stock market is resuming its downward slump, creating a drag on investor enthusiasm for buying shares. In many ways, this effect is no different from how consumers approach the purchase of any other item – if you are reasonably confident that the truck/house/trinket/whatever you are wanting to buy will be cheaper in a few weeks, you will wait to make your purchase.

It’s Fed rate-cut week. Will Jerome Powell and company come out of the gates quickly, slashing rates by a full 50 basis points, as the majority of traders now expect? Or will they start with a more sober, 25-basis point cut … which is what I expect? In the long run, it probably doesn’t matter much. But in the current market, the answer will likely determine whether last week’s bounce-back has legs – or if another October bottom is in order.

In the meantime, today we add a stock that has nothing to do with interest rates: a fast-growing water company. It’s a recent recommendation from Tyler Laundon in his Cabot Early Opportunities advisory.

Details inside.

In selecting today’s stock, I looked for a quality stock with a strong and healthy technical pattern that was presenting a decent buy point. Oddly, it’s a bricks-and-mortar retailer, a category with an abundance of losers these days. But it’s a winner, and I think you’ll like it.

U.S. stocks markets are now continuing their rebound from the horrendous fourth-quarter 2018 market action. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ indexes look quite bullish, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) lags a bit.

Right on the heels of yesterday’s Issue featuring new addition Byrna Technologies (BYRN) management released preliminary Q2 revenue. The press release came just after the closing bell yesterday.

Inflation is dead.

OK, it’s not “dead.” But at 2.9% in July, as reported Wednesday morning, it has now (narrowly) reentered the Federal Reserve’s magical 2% realm for the first time in nearly three and a half years – since March 2021. For all the inflation angst during those past three and a half years, the market has fared pretty well overall – the S&P 500 is up 30% since the first CPI print north of 3% was reported in mid-May of 2021. On a per-year basis, that only slightly trails the average annual return in the large-cap index of 9.9% since its inception in 1928.

The major indexes are up to new highs, though they again have become very dependent on the Magnificent Seven in the last month after stocks of virtually all sizes and sectors rallied in November and December. Outside the Mag Seven, most stocks have been stagnant so far in 2024. Not so in the Stock of the Week portfolio, where we have multiple stocks hitting new highs, none of which belong to the Mag Seven, and TWO stocks that have doubled in the last year! We try and keep the hot streak going by adding a familiar, big-name growth stock that was beaten to a pulp during the bear market of 2022 and 2023 but has demonstrated some real momentum in the last three months. It’s a recent recommendation from Cabot Explorer Chief Analyst Carl Delfeld.

After surging to new highs in late March, today’s recommendation has pulled back quietly but steadily throughout April and my goal is for readers to get on board somewhere near the bottom of the current correction.

Not all Dow Jones stocks are appealing right now. But these 3 have the best combination of low valuations, growth potential, and compelling dividend yields.

Current Market Outlook


Most of the issues the market had been suffering from are still out there—even after today’s rally, the intermediate-term trend of the major indexes is questionable at best (still technically down), while relatively few stocks are really moving ahead (the number of new highs remains tame). That said, we have begun to see support show up in the market, partially in the indexes but more so among leading (and potential leading) stocks; we’re seeing many show resilience and a bunch begin to set up in legitimate launching pads. That doesn’t mean these stocks are guaranteed to get going, but it’s a first step to keep an eye on going forward.

This week’s list contains a group of names that’s attracting money, including a few that have popped on news. Our Top Pick is CrowdStrike (CRWD), which is one of the few growth-oriented stocks that’s actually been slowly pushing higher in recent weeks as the market has come in.

Stock Name	Price	Buy Range	Loss Limit
Blueprint Medicines (BPMC)	88.88	84.5-87.5	77.5-79.5
CrowdStrike (CRWD)	137.38	133-138	117-120
Digital Turbine (APPS)	30.98	28-30	24.5-25.5
DraftKings Inc. (DKNG)	56.91	54-58	45-47
Generac Holdings (GNRC)	190.24	180-185	165-168
JinkoSolar Holding (JKS)	37.78	34.5-36.5	29.5-31
Owens & Minor (OMI)	21.67	19.5-20.5	17-18
QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM)	118.47	115-119	105-107
Sea Limited (SE)	160.00	156-161	138-141
Square, Inc. (SQ)	160.79	157-162	140-143