ADJECTIVE
- of stocks of companies with a market capitalization of less than one billion dollars
How To Use small-cap In A Sentence
- The manager has a preference for undervalued stocks and favours mid and small-cap companies. Times, Sunday Times
- Virtus is sticking to its core strategy of buying midcap and small-cap companies that are market leaders and earn the bulk of their revenues from domestic consumption, insulating them from global shocks. Investors Sour on Developing World
- Technology stocks also helped the two small-cap indexes as earnings and earnings preannouncement news lifted several companies. Swift Energy Gains 4.7%; Ceradyne Declines 14%
- Thirty-one of the newcomers come from two corners of the investment universe - real estate and small-cap stocks.
- Or perhaps you're now ready to take on greater risk and your asset allocation requires a small proportion of your assets to be held in riskier small-cap stocks.
- That is because most small-cap managers tend to buy the larger of the small companies, which are stabler and more liquid, and thus do better when markets get choppy. Stock Picking Gets Trickier
- Normally, I'm sympathetic to investors who get snookered by the volatility and outright lies that drive so many small-cap stocks.
- A decade ago, "decimalization" at the stock exchanges delivered small savings for investors on each transaction but reduced the profits for brokerages, especially when trading small-cap stocks. Whatever Happened to IPOs?
- Consider a small-capacity model only if you're dehumidifying a single room that gets damp infrequently. Buying something bigger than a breadbox? Here's what to consider
- Mr Kern likens the current climate for microcap funds to the 1980s, when small-cap investing gained momentum with mutual-fund families.
