While that's not a terrible expected return, it's also far lower than this high -
quality small cap dividend growth stock can return and has in the past, when purchased at more attractive valuations.
What does one do when one is holding a good
quality small cap stock recommended by you but still sees the prices falling as it is a bear market?
It's a wrong conception that
quality small cap stocks fall more in bear market... Only «Low quality stocks» (be it largecap or smallcap) fall more in bear market..
Today
a quality small cap stock may have less liquidity but as the time aheads, more market participants recognize that quality small cap, liquidity increases and thus quality small cap generates multi-fold return...
Hope you would agree that there would be more quality large cap stocks than
quality small cap stocks (as a ratio).
Simple reason, smallcap index itself is filled with poor quality junk stocks... So, the point of the article is if you have the ability to select
quality small cap or mid cap stocks then it will outperform the best quality large cap stocks like TCS, Sun Pharma, ITC etc across any market situation...
The High -
Quality Small Cap strategy is a fundamental core approach that invests in small cap companies in strong financial condition and whose equities are priced below our view of fair value.
A few years ago we could buy high -
quality small cap businesses below 12 times earnings (see B&C Speakers and El.En.
It's the exact reverse, and even there, that's ultimately the time for a small cap value where you get low -
quality small cap, which is the version of the things that people in the bear were so afraid would absolutely die if things ended up being as bad as people previously feared, that when they're not quite that bad, you get this huge upward relief bounce from.
It will be hard to accept, if I directly conclude that
quality small caps and mid caps can offer more safety, better dividend yield and obviously better return than large cap stocks across any market cycle (bull and bear market).
From the entire universe of small cap stocks, only 1 % -2 % may have all the characteristics of «
quality small caps».
Naturally
the quality small caps will have large growth opportunities against till they become large cap.
Moreover,
quality small caps can be less volatile than the large cap stocks.
Not exact matches
And since the Tech Bubble, we have seen unprecedented amounts of liquidity funneled into the capital markets, and highly - levered, credit - sensitive,
smaller -
cap and lower -
quality stocks and sectors outperformed their more liquid, larger -
cap, higher -
quality counterparts.
We've created a model portfolio that helps investors find high
quality dividend stocks: 10 Large / Mid
Cap & 10
Small Cap stocks that earn our Attractive or Very Attractive rating and offer high
quality dividend yields.
As of May 2, 2018 the Janus Henderson
Small Cap Growth Alpha ETF MSCI ESG Fund
Quality Score is 3.61 out of 10.
10 Large / Mid
Cap & 10
Small Cap stocks that earn our Attractive or Very Attractive rating and offer high
quality dividend yields.
As of May 2, 2018 the Vanguard S&P
Small -
Cap 600 Value ETF MSCI ESG Fund
Quality Score is 3.93 out of 10.
There are still
quality small -
caps out there, but on average
small caps are overvalued compared to large and mid
cap stocks.
EQUITIES THEMATIC — SAME AS IT EVER WAS:
Small Cap / High Beta / Cyclicals / Value / High Short Interest / Inflation / Domestic Exposure / Weak Balance Sheet over Low Vol / Defensives / Anti-Beta / Growth /
Quality / Strong Balance Sheet.
These
small -
cap companies take a little more time to keep track of and ensure that
quality companies are kept in or added to the fund and companies that are struggling are dropped.
EQUITY FACTORS — IF IT AI N'T BROKE, DO N'T FIX IT: Size (long
small cap over short large
cap) and Value (long value, short growth) continue to crush it, while momentum /
quality / anti-beta hammered as per the «cyclical reflation» regime.
As of May 2, 2018 the SPDR EURO STOXX
Small Cap ETF MSCI ESG Fund
Quality Score is 5.89 out of 10.
The O'Shares FTSE Russell
Small Cap Quality Dividend ETF tracks an index of US small - cap stocks weighted for exposure to quality, low volatility, and high yield fac
Small Cap Quality Dividend ETF tracks an index of US small - cap stocks weighted for exposure to quality, low volatility, and high yield facto
Cap Quality Dividend ETF tracks an index of US small - cap stocks weighted for exposure to quality, low volatility, and high yield f
Quality Dividend ETF tracks an index of US
small - cap stocks weighted for exposure to quality, low volatility, and high yield fac
small -
cap stocks weighted for exposure to quality, low volatility, and high yield facto
cap stocks weighted for exposure to
quality, low volatility, and high yield f
quality, low volatility, and high yield factors.
Goldman Sachs funds can have a mixture of mid
cap and
small cap companies which have been selected as offering a high
quality growth.
Royce
Small Cap Value (RVFIX, RYVFX, RVFCX, RVVHX, RVVRX, RVFKX) was our second - ranked small cap value fund for 2Q17 and appears poised to stay atop the rankings based on holdings qua
Small Cap Value (RVFIX, RYVFX, RVFCX, RVVHX, RVVRX, RVFKX) was our second - ranked small cap value fund for 2Q17 and appears poised to stay atop the rankings based on holdings quali
Cap Value (RVFIX, RYVFX, RVFCX, RVVHX, RVVRX, RVFKX) was our second - ranked
small cap value fund for 2Q17 and appears poised to stay atop the rankings based on holdings qua
small cap value fund for 2Q17 and appears poised to stay atop the rankings based on holdings quali
cap value fund for 2Q17 and appears poised to stay atop the rankings based on holdings
quality.
Royce
Small Cap Value Fund is among a limited group of actively managed funds that has justified its fees over time through high
quality asset allocation, the only reason to pay fees above the ETF benchmark.
As we all know, the market has seen an «accelerated widening» between large
caps and
small caps and between low
quality and high
quality names.
Turning to equities, he feels a shift from
small cap names into high
quality large
caps is advisable.
CAP notes that, «carefully choosing which new measures of school
quality or student success to use is no
small task.
They estimate that high
quality stocks might make 1 % a year,
small caps will be flat and large
caps in general will lose nearly 1 % a year.
Aristotle
Small Cap Equity Fund will seek long - term capital appreciation by investing in high quality, small cap businesses that are underva
Small Cap Equity Fund will seek long - term capital appreciation by investing in high quality, small cap businesses that are undervalu
Cap Equity Fund will seek long - term capital appreciation by investing in high
quality,
small cap businesses that are underva
small cap businesses that are undervalu
cap businesses that are undervalued.
Lord Abbett is an independent asset management firm approaching
small and micro
cap investing by relying on fundamental research to identify
quality growth stocks.
The investment idea behind
small caps is that these firms are likely to provide
quality growth prospects to a portfolio and should have a much easier time growing then their large
cap counterparts.
At the end of the day, however, our empirical findings and those of Asness et al. are similar:
quality small -
cap stocks can be a good source of excess return.
In the recent article «Size Matters If You Control Your Junk,» Asness et al. (2015) document that
small -
cap companies outperform the market if low -
quality companies are avoided.
We find that for large -
cap stocks in the aggregate,
quality stocks do not have a performance advantage over junk stocks.3 By contrast, in the
small -
cap universe,
quality stocks outperform junk stocks.
Our advice to the equity investor is to examine that
small cap you are considering to be sure it has the alpha - producing
qualities you seek — if absent, toss that
small fish back, and cast your line again.
Ultimately, the equity investor will haul in a larger alpha catch by emulating the skilled fisherman: first, identifying a promising location (i.e.,
small cap stocks), then using multiple lines and hooks (i.e., implementing value, momentum, and
quality strategies to exploit the chum of risk and mispricing in each), and lastly, dangling the lure of skilled active management to tease out the
smallest trading costs possible.
Our analysis shows that the profitability or
quality factor plays a meaningful role in cross-sectional dispersion of
small -
cap stocks» returns.
The tactical shift that we made circa December of 2014 was to move from an indiscriminate risk taking posture (e.g., large,
small, growth, value, foreign, etc.) to a higher
quality, lower volatility, large -
cap only positioning.
I was never convinced that allocating to U.S. size differences (like a
small cap fund) or
quality differences (like a value fund) would raise my returns or moderate steep declines much, and these new correlations still support this position.
The
Small Cap Quality portfolio is a portfolio designed to systematically deliver return and risk characteristics of small cap quality stocks within the US equity ma
Small Cap Quality portfolio is a portfolio designed to systematically deliver return and risk characteristics of small cap quality stocks within the US equity mark
Cap Quality portfolio is a portfolio designed to systematically deliver return and risk characteristics of small cap quality stocks within the US equity
Quality portfolio is a portfolio designed to systematically deliver return and risk characteristics of
small cap quality stocks within the US equity ma
small cap quality stocks within the US equity mark
cap quality stocks within the US equity
quality stocks within the US equity market.
(3.5 %) Int» l bonds (currency hedged)(3.4 %) US
small cap (2.4 %) US large
cap (1.0 %) US bonds (0.5 %) TIPs (0.3 %) Cash (0.2 %) Int» l
small cap (0.1 %) US high
quality 0.0 % Int» l large
cap 2.6 % EM bonds 2.9 % EM equity 5.4 % Managed timber
This is achieved by a preliminary qualitative assessment of potential
small cap investments, together with liquidity, size and
quality screens.
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).
Much of the potential return advantage
small -
cap dividend growers have over other
small caps can be attributed to
quality.
Lydon said the index SMDV tracks «includes
quality, dividend - growing companies that have delivered higher return on equity compared to other
small -
caps... without sacrificing earnings per share growth.»
Calling the situation for
small caps «a breather,» Kieran highlighted the
quality of
small -
cap companies that have continually grown their dividends over time, «making them a potentially compelling way to invest in this market.»