Jon Heller of the superb Cheap Stocks, one of the inspirations for this site, has published the results of his two year net net index experiment in Winding Down The Cheap Stocks 21 Net Net Index; Outperforms Russell
Microcap by 1371 bps, S&P 500 by 2537 bps.
Not exact matches
Regulation A + will more than likely produce an increased number of securities subject to Rule 15c2 - 11, and without changes to the piggyback exception, could lead to a substantial increase in the number of
microcap securities manipulated
by nefarious issuers and market makers.
And many of the holdings are unusual, even
by the standard of
microcap value funds.
Thus, I have decided to add a minimum requirement of 5k shares daily, which
by no means guarantees a liquid market but will eliminate some
microcap stocks which have little to no trading, often times trading 0 shares in a day (such as Continental Materials, CUO, from last month's list).
Greenhouse
MicroCap Discovery Fund will pursue long - term capital appreciation
by investing in 50 - 100
microcaps «run
by disciplined management teams possessing clear strategies for growth that... trade at a discount to intrinsic value.»
And over the past three years, the average annual 14 % return beat 85 % of rivals — and the Russell
Microcap Index,
by about three percentage points.
Loughran (1997) examines the data used
by Fama and French (1992) and finds that the results are driven
by a January seasonal and the returns on
microcap growth stocks.
Number two is the hidden bidding up of the shares through sham transactions where related parties buy & sell at progressively higher prices (netting to no loss, aside from commissions) until some speculators see the
microcap stock and start driving it higher, possibly supported
by promotional paid research.