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The sharp recovery from the recent bottom has leveled off, at least for now. From here, the prognosis looks murky at best.
New concerns have arisen. There is worry that Europe will impose additional sanctions on Russia, which may include natural gas. That would certainly increase the negative economic fallout from the war. Also, there is increasing concern about slowing economic growth later this year and next.

At its essence, growth-investing success comes down to playing the right trend, at the right time, and with the right stocks. The bigger and the more durable the trend, the better. And one of the most durable growth trends is giving to charitable causes! It’s not rampant growth—it grows a couple of percentage points faster than GDP—but it’s consistent.

The investment game attracts lots of smart people to the stock market who believe that they should be able to think their way to investing success.

Today I want to share a recent feature article from Hendershot Investments, a quarterly newsletter focused on conservative, high-quality (or HI-quality, for Hendershot Investments) companies for the long-term investor, many of which pay dividends. Editor Ingrid Hendershot wrote the following essay on the importance of free cash flow (or FCF)...

Here are some of the sources that I have found most useful, reliable and unique. One of them may be able to give you a new perspective on some of the stocks you own.

In a weak market it pays to identify pockets of strength, and these are the 5 strongest sectors heading into the new year.

Certain sectors are about to get a jolt of energy from the post-Covid recovery. Others aren’t. Here are three reopening stocks to avoid.

Two and a half years ago I picked three alcohol stocks, three tobacco stocks and three firearms stocks as a joke. Amazingly, they’ve performed quite well.

Halfway through the year, here are the 10 top picks of 2018 from our Wall Street’s Best Investments and Wall Street’s Best Dividend Stocks newsletters.

Tesla, Luckin Coffee and Virgin Galactic have been among the three of the hottest stocks on the market. Here’s what they have in common.

Dollar Tree and EZCORP should perform quite well during the next few months.

The market finished with a bang at the end of last week, spurred by excellent earnings news from technology leaders Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT). If you own the leaders, this is a rewarding market. But beneath the surface, all is not well.

How will the electric utilities—and the solar energy-producing homeowners—evolve to serve this fleet of electric cars? And ultimately—when will I be able to summon an autonomous car with my smartphone, tell it to take me to my destination, and exit the vehicle upon arrival, all without dealing with a human? The answers to these questions are still unknown, which means there’s a lot of opportunity in this market, and that’s one reason the readers of my Cabot Stock of the Month are still holding onto Tesla, with profits exceeding 750%.

Cabot Top Ten Trader, our weekly advisory, details the strongest stocks of the previous week.

Tesla (TSLA) has one unique advantage that no other manufacturer has been able to duplicate. And that’s why its stock remains a strong long-term investment.

Given that today’s date is 4/20, I feel compelled to acknowledge that that’s the code for “time to smoke pot.” But I don’t have any jokes. This is serious business. And it’s doubly serious because we’ve been dealing with a weak sector for over a year!

The only bright spot in that trend is that valuations have become more attractive; if this goes on long enough, I expect Cabot’s value analyst Bruce Kaser will recommend one of these stocks!