If Small Capitalization stocks and if Value stocks underperform, it will that they failed to deliver an extra benefit.
Not exact matches
Currently investors who own just $ 2,000 worth of a company's
stock can submit proposals, even
if that represents an infinitesimally
small percentage of the issuer's total market
capitalization.
3) The Hussman Strategic Growth Fund has gradually shifted from
smaller to larger
capitalization holdings in recent years, not out of any necessity due to Fund size (at the Fund's current asset level, we could easily populate the Fund with mid-caps
if it was optimal to do so), but precisely because large
stocks generally carry the best relative valuations.
When I probed further, they stated that they never considered gold and silver mining
stocks because their
small market
capitalization made them «too risky», even
if they were a
small - cap portfolio manager.
If you assume that a diversified portfolio of US
Stocks, International
Stocks,
Small Capitalization Stocks, and some Bonds will significantly increase returns and reduce volatility you may be surprised to learn, that recently the
stock funds are quite highly correlated.
5) There are reasons to doubt whether
Small Capitalization Value
stocks really do outperform the market and,
if so, by how much.
If we demonstrate it using illiquid micro-caps then we've demonstrated that low liquidity and
small capitalization stocks outperform, which everyone already knows, but we've shown nothing about our quantitative value metrics.
If they do a good job, their microcap
stocks soon become
small caps, their
small caps become midcaps, and both are at risk of being ejected from the
capitalization - limited Grandeur Peak funds.