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As Mike Cintolo, Chief Analyst of Cabot Growth Investor and Cabot Top Ten Trader always says, “you shouldn’t fight the tape.” The markets are battling it out these days, trying to find a bottom. The constant news cycle of Russia-Ukraine, rising rates (up 0.5% last week) and increasing inflation are causing a severe case of market indigestion and volatility.



What’s an investor to do? As I’ve been saying for the past 6 or so months, judicious investing is the key. While most sectors (except Energy and Utilities) and the majority of equities, are down for 2022, there are still pockets of ideas worth investigating, including some defensive moves.



With that being said, I think investors should be keeping some cash on the sidelines, as when this market shows signs of a long-term turn, there will be plentiful bargains to be had.

Swarmer’s (SWMR) IPO was small, only $15 million, but the stock skyrocketed more than 500% in its first day of trading and has flown higher since.

As I’ve mentioned here before, one of the things we do at the Dick Davis Digests is identify the major investing trends of the day, and recommend ways to invest in those trends. For the past few months, one trend has been more resilient than any other: rising oil prices. Every...

High yield bond returns have been quite strong. But the yields are lower than they’ve been in 30 years. And that makes them even higher risk.

After years of being beaten down, bargain energy stocks are everywhere. The deepest values may be found in these post-bankruptcy companies.

Money is pouring back into the market and it is likely to continue far longer than the vast majority of today’s investors expect.

Friday’s strong jobs report—which raised the probability of a December rate hike to around 70% according to futures markets—initially caused a sharp dip in the major indexes, followed by an end-of-day rally. However, that was followed by more dramatic corrections of about 1% in each of the indexes on Monday.

Motorola Solutions (MSI) has survived by reinventing itself, and Motorola stock is shaping up as one of 2017’s best investments.

Use the stock market itself as the source for your investing tactics. It’s the only financial news that you can really use.

It’s the last day of May, to which most investors (including us) say “good riddance,” as the major indexes are working on their fourth straight losing week. Including this morning’s plunge, the S&P has fallen as much as 6.9% from its high, while the Nasdaq has lost as much as 8.9% from its nadir.

Every now and then one of our stocks is the target of a short report by a myriad of research houses that try to make the case that a company is garbage and its stock is wildly overvalued.

Tesla has been on a tear. But like other red-hot stocks before it, TSLA stock may have reached peak popularity. Does that mean it’s time to sell?

Even at new record highs, there are reasons to believe the stock market is headed much higher. Here are 10 that come to mind.

As the market shows signs of getting off its knees, some opportunities are emerging. Here are two early-stage growth stocks that look promising.

Like with any car, it’s easy to crash a Tesla. How to invest in Tesla in the midst of this downward-spiraling market seems more complicated. But it’s not.

Apple’s new product announcement this week was a big deal. When a company’s market cap is hovering around $640 billion, its gross profit was $70.5 billion in the past year and its stock is held by 2,157 institutional investors, it can’t be anything but a big deal. But for any growth investors out there who have their eye on AAPL, I’ve got to ask, “What the heck are you thinking?”

The focus of today’s column is gold, particularly the environment that makes gold stocks, gold ETFs and even gold bullion attractive to investors. For some readers, the highlight will be the 10 gold stocks I’ll discuss.

Markets are used to all kinds of stressful events, and for the past year or so have taken the Greek debt crisis pretty much in stride. Up through last week, what we saw in the market was an unemotional averaging out of all investors’ estimates of the probability of a Greek default and the likely fallout (including Greece’s exit from the Eurozone).

Every year, usually on a Thursday in July, most of the Cabot crew gathers in Salem, jumps into cars and heads north. With bathroom breaks and a stop to purchase refreshing beverages (ahem), the group drives through New Hampshire’s tiny seacoast neck and winds up in Kittery, Maine, at the Chauncey Creek Lobster Pound. There, lobsters, baked beans, coleslaw, steamers, mussels and (importantly) chips are consumed and the store of tissue-restoring beverages is significantly reduced.