Let us parse this diabolical arithmetic:
On November 13, McGowan Group did the financial equivalent of tidying your closet and accidentally throwing out your favorite sweater. They sold 319,882 shares of DSL, reducing their stake to 2.91 million. The fund’s market value now sits at $35.69 million. It’s like watching someone lose a bet they didn’t even know they were making.
Industrial bellwether Boeing (BA +0.81%) gained around 0.6% as industrials outperformed, while healthcare insurer Molina Healthcare (MOH +2.47%) jumped roughly 2.5% on positive investor commentary; semiconductor name AXT (AXTI +8.29%) and bank OceanFirst Financial (OCFC 6.66%) also featured among notable individual movers, contributing to mixed breadth. A dividend hunter’s dream? Not quite-unless you’re betting on the next quarterly payout.
Both chase dividend growers, but VIG is a wide-eyed optimist with a tech obsession, while NOBL is a grizzled veteran who only trusts names that have survived 25 years of rain and war.
As if scripted by some unseen playwright, Slotnik Capital revealed its new investment stage left, completing its third-quarter acquisition with a flourish that accounted for 5.33% of its reportable U.S. equity holdings. The plot thickens as we consider what lies beneath the surface-this sum was not merely an arbitrary figure but rather a calculated bet on a company that dances gracefully upon the precipice of innovation and market turbulence.
If the market manages to conclude the year on such a high note, we shall witness one of the most remarkable triennial performances in recent memory, following the dazzling returns of 24% and 23% in 2023 and 2024, respectively. Yet, as we peer into the crystal ball of 2026, one can’t help but feel an intoxicating mixture of optimism and dread as investors ponder whether all this prosperity is simply too good to be true.
And now, as this bull, fat and slow from three years of easy gains, lumbers into 2026, the ground beneath it trembles. The Federal Reserve, that temple of cloaked men adjusting dials for the powerful, whispers uncertainty. Not in parables, but in dissenting votes and contradictory projections-raw data that even the blind can read. The S&P, still dancing, does not care. Or pretends not to.
Big Tech’s robot overlords took a coffee break. Nvidia (NVDA 1.19%) and Palantir (PLTR 2.40%) stumbled as investors whispered, “What have you done for me lately?” Gold miners like Newmont (NEM 5.64%) plunged 5%-the precious metal’s midlife crisis continues. So it goes.
The post-transaction holding, a figure of 1.73 million shares valued at $99.14 million, appears to the untrained eye as a triumph of calculation. Yet within the firm’s internal mechanisms, this number is but a fragment of a larger, unknowable equation. The firm, which claims $1.27 billion in total U.S. equity positions across 16 holdings, seems to operate under laws no human could ever fully grasp, its decisions dictated by an unseen algorithmic will.
On November 13, Callodine filed paperwork with the SEC revealing they bought 765,275 shares of FCPT. That’s a pretty hefty stake-$18.67 million, to be exact. It’s their first time holding FCPT in their quarterly report, which feels like a secret handshake with a company that’s been quietly doing its thing. I wonder if they’re betting on a comeback or just hedging their bets with a predictable cash flow.