Source: Michael Ballanger
December 4, 2023 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. shares his thoughts on Cameco Corp., which he believes may be the best individual stock of 2023.
The first trading day of the last month of 2023 begins with gold and silver lower, copper and oil slightly higher, bond yields lower, and equities called lower. The U.S. Dollar index is slightly higher. The Institute of Supply Management ("ISM") manufacturing report comes out at 10:00 a.m. and is usually a good thermometer (as opposed to a barometer) of economic activity in the U.S.
If this number comes in lower than October's 46.7 reading, it could spark "hard landing" fears, sending stocks reeling after the best monthly performance of the year in November.
Stocks are now solidly in the overbought category and could be vulnerable to a correction. Typically, the first two weeks of December are on the weak-ish side, with the bulls returning around the end of the third week of the month. The first part of the month tends to be weaker as tax-loss selling and year-end portfolio restructuring begins. December's first trading day has been bearish for the S&P 500 and Russell 1000 over the last 21 years.
I am currently long a few special situations like Cameco Corp. (CCO:TSX; CCJ:NYSE) and Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE:NYSEARC) by way of March calls, but I am sitting on an extremely large cash position thanks to profits in the SPY and TLT calls sold late last month at or near the top of the move.
I let recency bias affect my judgment on the VanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX:NYSEARCA:) and VanEck Junior Gold Miner ETF (GDXJ:NYSEArca) trades back in mid-November and am now sadly sidelined with only Getchell Gold Corp. (GTCH:CSE; GGLDF:OTCQB) as my proxy for gold prices, excluding, of course, my physical gold and silver holdings that are never more than a few feet from my Remington 870.
If you go back to Email Alert 2023-127 sent out on October 5, it included the same CNBC Fear- Greed Indicator shown above but was registering a reading of "21" <EXTREME FEAR> versus this morning's reading of "67" <GREED>. Cameco Corp. (CCO:TSX; CCJ:NYSE)
The buying opportunity I identified in October is no longer present here at the start of December, so while everyone and their pet canaries are now bellowing "YEAR-END RALLY" (followed by twenty-seven exclamation marks), it is time to be either very modestly long a few special situations or standing aside.
The best individual stock trade for the year may turn out to be Cameco Corp. (CCO:TSX; CCJ:NYSE), whose performance after the last earnings report has been shockingly good.
I normally use "blowout earning" as an excuse to take profits but as I said back in October when they last reported, I had never seen a CEO of a miner ever talk of "the best condition he has ever seen" as forward guidance for the company.
So far, as the stock probes prices at all-time highs, he is being proven absolutely correct, as am I in owning the CCJ March $40 and $45 calls.
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