Steve Alexander presents 5 Arguments
for Small Cap Value Stocks posted at MagicDiligence — Optimizing Joel Greenblatts Value Stock Strategy, saying, «Does your portfolio contain small cap value stocks?
Not exact matches
I presented a webinar
for Netwealth last week on
value investing in
small and mid
cap stocks.
Per Figure 1, Royce
Small Cap Value allocates 36 % of its assets to Attractive - or - better rated
stocks compared to just 14 %
for the benchmark iShares Russell 2000
Value ETF (IWN).
Further, exposure to Dangerous - or - worse rated
stocks is much lower
for Royce
Small Cap Value (9 % of assets) than
for IWN (36 of assets).
Value and
small cap stocks are great diversifiers and return enhancers as you can see from the All
Stock Asset Class, but be prepared
for large losses as well.
Digging further into the outperformance of HML
SMALL during this period, the study's authors note that the HML alpha can be tied more to horrible performance by the low -
value small cap stocks for the period instead of great performance by the high -
value stocks.
But
for investors who are willing to venture into
value stocks and
small -
cap stocks, there's much more money to be made.
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caps spice up a retirement portfolio Foreign big -
cap value stocks outshine U.S. counterparts What global large -
cap stocks do
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small -
cap value This 4 - fund combo wallops the S&P 500 index Buy the best performing
stock sector
for 87 years How to make money with
small -
cap stocks Looking
for action?
Over the past year, the average U.S. large -
cap growth fund has risen 18.2 %, while the average U.S. large -
cap value fund is up 10.4 %... from 2003 through 2013, the average gap between the two styles of
stock - picking
for large -
cap stocks was 0.75 percentage point... it's a similar story among
small - company
stocks, where growth -
stock funds -LSB-...] are up 16 % over the past year.
Some numbers: From 1928 through 2014, U.S.
small -
cap value stocks turned in a compound annual return of 13.6 % (compared with 9.8 %
for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index SPX, +1.26 %).
In a future article I'll show how
small -
cap value stocks have done even more
for patient investors who can stand their volatility.
We went from thinking about just diversifying between
stocks and bonds to now diversifying across asset classes, meaning large
cap and
small cap,
value and growth, made the world much more complex, but opportunities
for advisors like you, Joe, to help your clients by adding
value through superior design, better diversification of portfolios.
«I look
for small -
cap technology
stocks with no debt and high book
values.
These mid-caps got at least one A and one B according to the
value and growth tests we use
for our
small -
cap stocks.
In other asset classes, it's easy to choose the best ETFs, and you'll find them in my recommendations
for U.S. and international real estate
stocks as well as international large -
cap blend, international large -
cap value, international
small -
cap blend and emerging markets.
But the evidence of history indicates this is reasonable — even conservative —
for investors who stay the course in
small -
cap value stocks.
Compound interest's effect on $ 100 is explosive
Small - cap value is the gold ring of investing Another one Einstein got right: Compound interest The future of small - cap and value stocks Buy the best performing stock sector for 87
Small -
cap value is the gold ring of investing Another one Einstein got right: Compound interest The future of
small - cap and value stocks Buy the best performing stock sector for 87
small -
cap and
value stocks Buy the best performing
stock sector
for 87 years
These mid-caps got at least one A and one B according to the
value and growth tests we used
for our
small -
cap stocks.
One of the lumpers» counter-arguments to slicing and dicing is that it is betting that
small -
cap and
value stocks will outperform the total
stock market in the future, and that most of the excess returns
for the
small -
cap and
value asset classes were generated during a few relatively short periods in the past.
I presented a webinar
for Netwealth last week on
value investing in
small and mid
cap stocks.
John Bogle and other lumpers warn us that it's unlikely that a typical investor will stick with a strategy that doesn't work as expected
for 10 years or longer, and that abandoning the bets on
small -
cap or
value stocks after an extended period of underperformance will reduce the investor's long - term returns relative to simply investing in the total
stock market.
Instead, you can look
for great asset classes like REITs,
small -
cap value stocks and emerging markets
stocks.
More importantly, the outperformance of
value stocks relative to growth
stocks is significantly larger
for the strategies executed in
small -
cap stocks.
For value stocks deemed to be cheap because of higher risk, this characteristic should be magnified in the more opaque small - cap universe, and hence, offer investors a higher premium for assuming that ri
For value stocks deemed to be cheap because of higher risk, this characteristic should be magnified in the more opaque
small -
cap universe, and hence, offer investors a higher premium
for assuming that ri
for assuming that risk.
Similar to the argument we made
for implementing a
value strategy with
small -
cap stocks, the risk associated with a momentum strategy would also be amplified when implemented with
small caps and would generate a higher return premium.
But that premium
for owning
small caps was generated by
value stocks, not growth.
The rolling 10 - year returns
for small -
cap growth
stocks were also persistently below those
for value.
There is a large body of evidence that show that investors would have earned a premium
for holding
small -
cap stocks and
value stocks in the past.
Their findings are useful
for indexers, portfolio managers, and
for any investor who invests in either
small cap or
value stocks.
Power - One (PWER) showed up in my latest screen
for top
small cap stocks to watch and I decided to look a little deeper into the company to see if it satisfies my first level criteria to determine if the
stock is worthy enough to put it on the Value Stock Guide Watch
stock is worthy enough to put it on the
Value Stock Guide Watch
Stock Guide Watch List.
I try to find the best
value stocks, mostly by looking
for beaten up
small caps that are cheaper than large
caps, and companies with very little debt.
In contrast to this statistical picture
for the S&P 500, many common
stocks, especially well - capitalized
small caps, currently seem to be priced at bargain prices relative to long - term earnings prospects and current book
values.
Value stocks» outperformance is even more pronounced
for small and mid
cap companies, because they tend to trade at even bigger discounts due to illiquidity and lack of analyst coverage, as well as being able to achieve higher growth rates than larger companies.
Small -
cap value stocks are represented by the Russell 2000 Value Index, which is an unmanaged index of those companies in the Russell 2000 Index chosen for their value orienta
value stocks are represented by the Russell 2000
Value Index, which is an unmanaged index of those companies in the Russell 2000 Index chosen for their value orienta
Value Index, which is an unmanaged index of those companies in the Russell 2000 Index chosen
for their
value orienta
value orientation.
It's important to note that «RAFI Size Factor» is not the same as the RAFI 1500
for small companies, but rather is a blend of four factor - tilt strategies, each formed within the universe of
small -
cap stocks:
small value,
small momentum,
small low volatility, and
small quality (a factor that combines profitability and investment metrics).
Of course, we're already seeing this phenomenon in terms of investor sentiment & the markets... and conversely,
small cap /
value stocks are now being generally neglected as far too difficult & illiquid a proposition
for most such buyers.
Loughran and Wellman find that
for nearly the entire market
value of largest
stock market (the US) over the most important time period (post-1963), the
value premium does not exist, which means that book - to - market is not predictive in
stocks other than the
smallest 6 percent by market
cap (and even there the returns are suspect).
We remained tilted toward large -
cap stocks over
small caps, which aided results in the final three months of the year, but our preference
for the
value style over growth was a minor detractor.
For your
stock portfolio, consider an appropriate allocation to various markets (U.S. and international) and categories (large - / mid - /
small -
cap, growth / blend /
value, or sectors).
AAII Model Portfolios 2007 Proves Underwhelming
for Small Caps and
Value Stocks A year - end review of the AAII Model Shadow
Stock Portfolio.
For investors who have tilted their portfolios towards
small cap and
value stocks, like the clients at IFA, the gains have been even greater.
for my ETF taxable allocation, i guess it is somewhere between second grader and Swedroe's
small - cap value tilt: 50 % VTI (Total Stock Mkt) 20 % VWO (Emerging Mkt) 15 % VEA (Europe - Asia) 15 % VBR (Small - cap Value)(my fixed income is all in my tax - advantaged acco
small -
cap value tilt: 50 % VTI (Total Stock Mkt) 20 % VWO (Emerging Mkt) 15 % VEA (Europe - Asia) 15 % VBR (Small - cap Value)(my fixed income is all in my tax - advantaged acco
value tilt: 50 % VTI (Total
Stock Mkt) 20 % VWO (Emerging Mkt) 15 % VEA (Europe - Asia) 15 % VBR (
Small - cap Value)(my fixed income is all in my tax - advantaged acco
Small -
cap Value)(my fixed income is all in my tax - advantaged acco
Value)(my fixed income is all in my tax - advantaged accounts)
These mid-caps managed to get one A and one B according to the
value and growth screens we used
for our
small -
cap stocks.
And with
stocks, it's easy to get confused about whether you should get into individual
stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, or whether you should go
for value versus growth,
small versus large
caps.....
Though it is a mid
cap fund but it looks out
for good
value stocks in other categories too and hence its portfolio is 45 % in mid
caps, 35 % in large
caps and rest in
small cap stocks.
In the U.S.
stock market, 87 years of performance data (1928 through 2014) give
small -
cap value stocks a huge advantage: A compound return of 13.6 %, versus 9.8 %
for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index SPX, -0.57 % Data sourced
for this report comes from Dimensional Fund Advisors.
May be appropriate
for investors looking to gain exposure to U.S.
small cap,
value - oriented,
stocks
Note: Uguisu
Value is most appropriate
for micro and
smaller -
cap stock focused fund managers / advisors, family offices, and individual investors that have an equity allocation of at least US$ 100,000 due to some companies having minimum trading units of up to $ 10K.
And just like
small cap, now fund companies even offer
value ETFs
for international
stocks.
Either way, those
values are higher than they were five years ago, when
stocks were something of a bargain, and the Fed said in mid-July that in certain pockets — biotech and
small -
cap stocks,
for example — valuations are somewhat «stretched.»