Heading into August the Equity markets still look strong but the smaller cap and technology laden indexes
stronger than the large caps.
Not exact matches
US
large -
cap stocks returned more
than 9 percent in the first half of 2017, the most since 2013, and although prices are close to all - time highs, analysts are of the opinion that valuations are not very expensive for a majority of these stocks, as
stronger earnings upped the price - to - earnings ratio, which has generally remained above average for quite a few years.
Back then, there were junior gold and silver mining companies that were a fraction of the market
cap of their much
larger -
cap mining peers that had much
stronger management, had managed geopolitical risk in a superior manner, and had streamlined operations to a far greater degree
than their
larger -
cap peers that were not huge risks.
Consider that despite the stellar performance of gold mining stocks this year that have been, by far, the
strongest performing asset class of 2016 (along with silver mining stocks), and that even with the massive growth in market
cap of PM stocks during H1 2016, the total market
cap of all the mining stocks that comprise the HUI Gold Bugs index, as of 2 August 2016, is still barely
larger than 1/3 the market
cap of Facebook and Amazon.
In an effort to mitigate the impact of a
stronger dollar, many investors have been favoring small -
cap stocks, which depend less on international sales
than larger companies.
In our view, the arguments against are much
stronger than the arguments in favor: we judge the evidence that small -
cap companies, in general, outperform
large -
cap companies to be unreliable.
Mid
caps have a
stronger wealth bearing potential as compared to
large caps; they typically perform better
than the latter in bullish markets.
Small
caps have historically performed
stronger than mid - and
large -
cap stocks during recoveries and weaker in bear markets.