As a result, schools in
the smallest decile were much more likely to be among the top 25 schools at some point over the period: Even though their mean gains were not statistically different, the smallest schools were 23 times more likely to win a top - 25 award than the largest schools.
(
The smallest decile of schools would have received an even larger share of the assistance teams, except for a rule requiring that the proportion of students scoring below grade level be statistically significantly less than 50 percent.)
LSV (among others) examined P / B in their Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk paper, and found that it was predictive (Of course this finding needs to be tempered by O'Shaugnessy's observation that
the smaller deciles are uninvestable because they are too small).
Not exact matches
The study was then repeated with the PEs divided into
smaller groups, i.e.
deciles or 10 % intervals (see Diagrams A. 2 and A. 3).
Hokitika Primary School is a
decile 4 school in a
small town on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.
The studies are nearly unanimous in their findings that
small stocks (those in the lowest four
deciles) do significantly better than large ones.
As I discussed in The
Small Cap Paradox: A problem with LSV's Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk in prac..., the low price - to - book decile is very s
Small Cap Paradox: A problem with LSV's Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk in prac..., the low price - to - book
decile is very
smallsmall.
I think that your readers divided into
deciles by investable assets would show that most of them, with limit orders and patience, could utilize a
small / micro / nano cap strategy.
Even a
small investor will struggle to buy enough stock in the 3rd or 4th
deciles, which encompass stocks with market capitalizations below $ 26 million and $ 61 million respectively.
The top market capitalization in the fourth
decile is $ 61 million, a number far too
small to allow widespread buying of those stocks.
As I discussed in The
Small Cap Paradox: A problem with LSV's Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk in practice, the low price - to - book decile is very s
Small Cap Paradox: A problem with LSV's Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk in practice, the low price - to - book
decile is very
smallsmall.
MDT
Small Cap Growth had top -
decile performance for the trailing three and five years at the end of the first quarter and posted positive net sales of $ 82 million to reach just about $ 400 million in assets at quarter - end.
The Kaufmann
Small Cap Growth Fund, with its top -
decile performance for the trailing one, three and five years at the end of the first quarter, had positive net sales of $ 89 million to reach $ 1.1 billion at quarter - end.
Folks who saw last week's post might note the
small advantage for the cashflow yield's value
decile over the earnings yield's value
decile, 20.7 percent versus 20.1 percent.
Even if the
smallest of the microcap stocks capture the greatest returns over time, I would like to think there are some somewhat larger, investable securities in the lower P / TBV
deciles...