A couple of weeks ago, I asked Cabot Wealth Advisory readers to take a survey for us so we can better understand how to serve your investing needs. Many of you responded and I appreciate all of your feedback.
We’re going to integrate some of your suggestions into Cabot Wealth Advisory and Cabot’s other newsletters, as [...]

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Benjamin Graham is known as the father of value investing. He influenced many modern investors, including Warren Buffett. Ben Graham wrote books, taught investment courses and created several methodologies to help investors evaluate stocks.
I have used one of Benjamin Graham’s methods for the past seven years in the Cabot Benjamin Graham Value Letter with great [...]

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Today, I’m going to skip the small talk and jump right into my investing topic–fundamental stock analysis. Let’s start off with my definition as a value investor: Fundamental analysis is any method to evaluate the prospects of a company and/or its stock by analyzing the qualitative and quantitative factors of the company.
There are hundreds of [...]

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Investing in biofuels stocks isn’t a slam-dunk. Ethanol-related stocks got a huge boost in early 2008 after the EISA was passed, but by the middle of that year, criticisms of the effect of ethanol on the price of food supplies reached a crescendo, and the market turmoil added to the pressure on biofuels producers. Some [...]

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A friend just forwarded me an email from the editors of Mother Earth News, an eco-centric DIY magazine, compiling some of their favorite stories from the publication’s past 40 years. Those snowbound in the mid-Atlantic may appreciate imagining a little revenge on Punxsutawney Phil by reading the how-to-serve-groundhog feature from 1984, while the morbidly frugal [...]

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