In a separate report by the RAND Corporation, also released Monday, researchers said the higher costs had prompted
more small public companies to revert to private ownership.
For the last few years, Piper Jaffray has been reporting on the difficulties that
small public companies face in today's equity markets.
Konrad J. Kuhn is the recipient of the 2011
National Small Public Company Leadership Council Annual Award, and is a co-founder and chairperson of Independent Group Home Living, Inc. (IGHL).
In the first year of implementation, the propensity
of small public companies to be purchased by private firms, which are not subject to the act, increased by 53 %, the report said.
If you are interested in buying stocks that is less than a dollar from
small public companies, then you may need to read through this article thoroughly.
Rafael and Elta are not public companies, but the massive procurement of Iron Dome missiles and systems that will now take place will benefit the order book of Eltek Ltd. (Nasdaq: ELTK),
a small public company from the center of Israel that I hold in my portfolio here.
Now the current CEO, Robert Federowicz has done many things, but nothing worthy of being a CEO of
a small public company.
Sarbanes - Oxley, he says, has made endangered species of
small public companies, threatened the vitality of public markets, driven foreign companies away from the NYSE and decreased investor returns for firms complying with SOX.