Sentences with phrase «by small capitalization companies»

It may invest a portion of its assets in securities issued by small capitalization companies.

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The «cap» in small cap stocks refers to a company's capitalization as determined by the total market value of its publicly traded shares.

A company with a market capitalization near the low end of those publicly traded — calculated by taking a firm's current share price and multiplying that figure by the total number of shares outstanding - is termed small - cap.

As the Fund tracks the US stock market excluding the S&P 500 Index, which comprise 500 large cap companies, the companies tracked by the Fund would be significantly smaller in market capitalization, and would tend to be less mature with higher volatility.

Palmer managed a pooled fund, which focused on Canadian small - capitalization companies, from its inception to August 2007, achieving returns of 35.8 % annualized over a nine - year period, which ranked it No. 1 in performance by a major fund ranking service in its small - cap, pooled - fund category.

Portfolio Strategies An Investor's Guide to Smart Beta Strategies Smart beta strategies differ from traditional market - capitalization - weighted indexes by taking advantage of value and small - company outperformance.

He explains that, by definition, equal weighting tilts the fund away from the largest capitalization companies and more towards smaller capitalization companies.

Moreover, all companies are subject to business and financial risks that might result in their stock's falling short of listing requirements, but small stocks by market capitalization are appreciably more likely to be removed from an exchange.

During his life as a trader Taleb learned that stock market performance is driven primarily by a relatively small portion of the index — those 100 to 300 companies whose market capitalization dominates.

Most index funds are cap weighted, meaning they own more of the bigger companies and less of the smaller companies (where bigger and smaller are defined by the total capitalization of the company — that is, how much it would cost to buy the entire company).

Stock prices of small - capitalization companies may be more volatile than those of larger companies and, therefore, the Fund's share price may be more volatile than those of funds that invest a larger percentage of their assets in stocks issued by mid - or large - capitalization companies.

The Venture Exchange includes companies too small in terms of assets and market capitalization to be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and as a result has historically been dominated by resource exploration and junior mining companies.