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.
I did that once
on a microcap stock (the stock of a very small company), and ended up doubling the price of the stock as my order was fully filled, only to see the price fall right back to where it was.
Like its predecessor, which raised $ 113 million in June 2014, Fund II will invest primarily in control buyouts, focusing
on microcap healthcare businesses with $ 1 to $ 7 million in EBITDA and equity commitments of $ 10 to $ 30 million per platform.
I find it frustrating that meaningful news
on these microcaps is slow in coming and difficult in finding.
Not exact matches
The Ellis Martin Report is a radio news magazine broadcasted
on 100 terrestrial stations in the United States and worldwide via the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.featuring potentially undervalued small - cap or
microcap companies from a variety of industry sectors trading
on a number of North American and foreign exchanges.
The study's authors, Kewei Hou, Chen Xue and Lu Zhang, found that these anomalies work best, if at all,
on tiny
microcap stocks, where trading costs exceed the profits that are supposedly available.
Also, my edge as a small player is to invest in nano /
microcaps and that is not addressed in your book or
on Turnkey Analyst.
In my case, it's an OTC stock whose management used for a
microcap scam, which resulted in a class action lawsuit, etc. but the company is still listed
on OTC and I'm stuck with 1000s of shares.
Full disclosure: no positions in any companies mentioned here, and as they used to say at TheStreet, I am writing about a
microcap stock, so they would typically not allow articles
on it without a big warning, if at all.
I think there are a lot of
microcap companies
on the TSX stock exchange and
microcap companies tend to have weak balance sheets.
Yes, the company participated at a
microcap conference in October of last year and made a presentation that was available
on the website!
Sold all my small and
microcap holdings
on Friday.
Instead of sitting
on cash waiting for a crash scenario to play out, I'm into foreign stocks, typical netnet plays (domestic and foreign),
microcap magic formula style candidates, etc. and beaten down financials.
@bazaar01 Location Katonah, NY Stats 4 followers 22 updates Recent tweet: anyone value investors
on twitter look at small /
microcaps... if so reach out..
As a professional investor often working in the small /
microcap space, I can confirm that bid / ask spreads
on these types of stocks can be unusually wide, and irresponsible «traders» can move the share prices around wildly.
While they've added more flavors of funds lately — Emerging Markets Small Cap,
Microcap Value, and Global Tech — their focus
on great, smaller companies has remained.
But first, I wanted to mention to readers that I'll be speaking at the
MicroCap Conference in Philadelphia
on October 24th.
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