Small caps

Jefferies’ Randal J. Konik believes the Q3 results announced by Callaway Golf Co (NYSE: ELY) reaffirm that the company has continued to gain market share against the backdrop of a mixed environment. Konik reiterated a Buy rating on the company, while raising the price target from $14 to $16....

Emerging markets stocks and exchange-traded funds are back in style this year, but some ETFs tracking developing economies are going unnoticed. That is particularly true of emerging markets small-cap ETFs. Perhaps the reason for that is investors often associate smaller stocks with volatility and...

Small-cap stocks and exchange-traded funds are often thought as destinations for investors seeking growth. With that can come added volatility and making that trade-off all the more the difficult is that small caps are usually a low-yielding corner of the equity market. Add to that, if U.S. small-...

When it comes to exchange-traded funds tracking the technology sector, the largest sector weight in the S&P 500, the funds that command the most attention are large-cap products heavy on familiar stocks such as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT). However, as is...

Actively managed funds are under considerable pressure, much of it coming courtesy of lower-cost, passively managed exchange-traded funds. However, active's advocates, of whom there remain plenty, believe there are asset classes and market segments where active management works for investors....

Skypeople Fruit Juice Inc (NASDAQ: SPU), a China-based holding company that sells fruit juice concentrates, fell more than 4 percent Tuesday morning following a report by Geo Investing. Geo Investing first highlighted the relatively unknown nano-cap company in late July after the company entered...

Forget FANG. According to Turning Point Analytics, small-cap tech is the place to be. In a new report, Turning Point argued small-cap tech stocks are well-positioned to continue to outperform the rest of the tech sector. So far this year, the Russell 2000 TECH Index is up 13 percent, more than...

There is a slew of data points suggesting that active management has some, to put it delicately, shortcomings. Those issues are particularly acute when drifting away from large caps to mid and small caps. “The March 2016 persistence scorecard, published last week, showed that just 19 percent...

Among precious metals, it's silver that actually deserves the gold medal this year. Just look at the iShares Silver Trust (ETF) (NYSE: SLV), which is higher by nearly 44 percent compared to gains of about 26 percent for comparable gold exchange traded products. No one is going to complain...

Penny stocks typically don’t cost a penny anymore. Companies trading as high as $5 per share are now considered “penny stocks,” and for good reason. These stocks lack the stability and performance reliability of those with a bigger market cap. With that said, buying a fiver doesn...

Shares of Digital Ally, Inc. (NASDAQ: DGLY), a producer of digital video image and storage products for use in law enforcement, surged higher by more than 50 percent to $6.27 on Friday following the deadly shooting in Dallas in which five police offers were murdered by a sniper. Investors and...

AdvisorShares, one of the largest issuers of actively managed exchange-traded funds, added to its lineup Thursday with the debut of the AdvisorShares Cornerstone Small Cap ETF (NYSE: SCAP). The new ETF is managed by Cornerstone Investment Partners. Welcoming SCAP SCAP can hold “U.S.-traded...