Small caps

The 10-year anniversary edition of the LD Micro Main Event kicked off Monday, Dec. 4 in Los Angeles, California. The event runs through Thursday. A focus on "many of the most influential companies in the micro-cap space" has helped the LD Micro event win the riotous title "Woodstock...

Root9B Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: RTNB) investors have been rattled since Friday morning when the stock halted seven times on circuit breakers. Since then, Nasdaq halted trading twice pending news and, on Wednesday morning, twice on circuit breakers. The nano-cap stock is up 287 percent since Friday....

Throughout his 20-plus-years with Marcum LLP, an independent auditor of public companies, David Bukzin has played witness to the contraction of the IPO market. As the founding head of Marcum’s SEC Services practice, Bukzin supports entrepreneurial companies that opt to migrate into the public...

Low fees on exchange-traded funds are one of the biggest selling points of this asset class and one of the primary reasons investors are continually ditching higher-fee, under-performing actively managed mutual funds. Lower Fees Attract Assets Even better for investors is that ETF issuers are...

A concern many investors have when mulling small-cap stocks or related exchange-traded funds is the often high valuations that come with the growth opportunity offered by smaller stocks. Finding value with small-caps has proven potent over time. In fact, long-term data suggest small-cap value funds...

U.S. small-cap stocks are among this year's most notable laggards. Something else that has been widely documented is the outperformance offered by ex-U.S. small-caps, a scenario pertaining to both developed and emerging markets smaller stocks. Speaking of outperformance courtesy of emerging...

VBI Vaccines Inc. - Ordinary Shares (NASDAQ: VBIV) has emerged as one of the best performing small-cap biotech plays of the year, with shares of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company quietly jumping over 75 percent year-to-date. With several new vaccines in the pipeline, analysts believe there...

There are massive sums of money sitting in various small-cap exchange traded funds, but in some cases, investors may not be getting the small-cap purity they signed up. Part of the reason for this could be that there isn't a uniform definition of “small cap,” though widely accepted...

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: BMRN) shares have historically outperformed during product launches, and Credit Suisse’s Kennen MacKay expects the Brineura launch in Q2:17 and upcoming launches of Vosoritide and PEG-PAL to drive earnings as well as investor interest. MacKay initiated...

Small-cap stocks have been getting plenty of press lately, due in large part to some stellar post-election showings. Many investors and the financial media often focus on the Russell 2000 Index, which to be fair, is one of the most widely followed gauges of smaller stocks in the world. And to be...

This has been a very good year for major small-cap benchmarks. For example, the widely followed Russell 2000 Index and the S&P SmallCap 600 Index are up 24 percent and 29 percent, respectively, year-to-date. Some small-cap strategies are doing even better, namely small-cap exchange-traded funds...

Since Election Day, small-cap stocks and exchange-traded funds have been enjoying a blistering pace, but that rally is eliciting concern among some market observers. For example, the iShares Russell 2000 Index (ETF) (NYSE: IWM) is up 13.3 percent over the past month, but there are signs some of the...

Small-cap stocks and exchange-traded funds are integral parts of properly diversified equity portfolios and the asset class is receiving increased attention after posting banner November returns. Still, many investors do not associate small-caps with dividends. DES And Small-Cap Strategies For ten...

With any luck, the current bull market will celebrate its ninth anniversary in March 2017. A wide array of non-leveraged exchange traded funds have posted stellar returns since March 2009, but among broader market equity funds, small- and mid-cap funds have generated particularly breathtaking...

The "Trump rally," the term applied to the post-election run-up in equities following the U.S. presidential election, ebbed a bit Monday. One trading day does not define a trend, but it is fair to say some asset classes have enjoyed the stunning election results. ETF Strategies Post-Election That...