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After three months of corrective action, beginning with the market’s first big selloff in late January, continuing through the first retest at the end of March and finishing with the second retest last week, the odds are now very good that the correction is over and that the market is ready to work its way back up toward—and hopefully beyond—its old highs.

Steel stocks are surging today, most likely triggered by the unfortunate news of corruption at Kobe Steel. The Cabot Undervalued Stocks Advisor portfolios currently hold two steel stocks.

One portfolio stock announced a corporate conversion, and three others reported first-quarter results.

Avalara (AVLR) reported Q3 results yesterday that surpassed expectations with revenue up 42% to $181.2 million (versus $170.3 million consensus). Adjusted EPS of -$0.03 beat by $0.04. Several recent acquisitions contributed meaningful growth in the quarter ($16.2 million in revenue) which, if taken out, means the organic revenue growth rate was closer to 29%.

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Inspire (INSP) is soaring this morning as the company trounced Q2 estimates and management raised guidance. Revenue was up 335% to $55 million (beating by $9.1 million) while EPS of -$0.48 improved from -$0.88 in the year-ago quarter and beat by $0.14. Driving the results was the addition of 63 new U.S. centers (well above expectations for 35 to 40) and a jump in covered lives. Results were strong both in the U.S. (up 349% to $49.4 million) and Europe (up 201% to $3.6 million) with average prices of both $23.9K and $23.4K (U.S. flat, Europe up modestly).

It’s been mostly another rotational week, with investors rotating out of some of the recently strong tech and cloud areas and back into some cyclical areas (especially metals and financials).

Our interest in oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) companies has been warming up lately. Many of these stocks are beaten down, yet oil prices have remained resilient, leaving producers like ConocoPhillips meaningfully undervalued.

Tivo (TIVO) reported non-GAAP $0.40 EPS vs. the consensus estimate of $0.27. News agencies reported all of the following incorrect EPS numbers: (0.29), $0.22, $0.29, $0.30 and $0.45. Here’s the full story.

An update on one of our stocks, and a rating change on another.

If professional investment companies are not making their decisions based on the price of the stock, neither should you.

They haven’t gotten going just yet, but in the intermediate term gold stocks almost always benefit from rising interest rates, history shows.

With the proliferation of stock trading information on the internet it’s more important than ever to work hard at avoiding stock scams.

February and early March triggered a rapid correction in U.S. equity markets, but these two bullish signs are signaling better times ahead.

Earnings Roundup: LUNG, RACE, ELF, SHOP, HUBS, FIX

The broad market was taken down a notch yesterday, supposedly because job openings increased in August. I’m not buying it.

We’ll get average hourly earnings for September on Friday, which will probably show wage inflation continues to ease and the labor market isn’t as tight as yesterday’s market reaction implies.

2023 was the exclamation point on a decade of outperformance by growth stocks, but investors would do well to keep these six things in mind before writing off value investing altogether.

There are several strategies you can use to hedge your portfolio against further weakness heading into 2023, this is the simplest.