Sentences with phrase «small cap sector»
Just look at the oil and gas small cap sector with $ 200 billion in high yield debt to see where the metals may be headed.
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Many, many small business fail because they are concentrated small cap sector bets, in essence, highly sensitive to management quality, local economic conditions, etc..
PowerShares released a series of small cap sector funds in 2010, but these were shut down due to lack of interest.
Today the availability of small cap sector funds can be described as patchy, at best.
Aberforth Smaller Companies is the largest trust in the UK Small Cap sector and was launched in December 1990.
M&A in the small cap sector was increasing in terms of price and number of transactions:
This led to a golden decade for activist investing in the small cap sector, one that I think is unlikely to be repeated in the next decade.
I believe that this phenomenon led to the emergence of activist investors in the small cap sector over the last decade.
The thesis of the paper was that there were a large number of undervalued companies with strong fundamentals and solid growth prospects in the small cap sector (defined as stocks with a market capitalization between $ 50M and $ 250M) lacking a competitive auction for their shares.
I believe that the third paragraph above best describes the reason for the emergence of the activists in the small cap sector.
While I do not own any stock, I like Blue Earth Energy (NASDAQ: BBLU) as it is a pure energy efficiency play in the small cap sector that should continue to do well (up more than 300 % from year low).
Significant gains are being made in the mid cap and small cap sectors.
More local exposure: the small cap sectors tend to be driven by relatively local demand and conditions, rather than global macro-factors.
The Small Cap sector can be overwhelmed with cash, similar to what happened with emerging markets.
But the tripling of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from March 2009 has not lifted all stock prices, especially for those in the small cap sector.