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Small Cap Stocks |
For aggressive investors seeking high returns, small cap stocks provide opportunities. Small cap stocks refer to companies with market capitalization of between $250 million to $ 3 billion. The reason why these corporations offer great promise is to have more potential to grow their business than the larger established corporation. It's much easier to build revenue from $200 million per year than $2 billion annually.
To determine the viability of small cap stocks, there are certain things to look for. Is the company increasing sales and profits? If they are, that means their products are competitive and their operations are reliable. Does management have a growth plan? The share price will appreciate as long as the company expands its business.
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| What Are Small Cap Stocks? |
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| The meanings of "big cap"
and "small cap" are generally understood by
their names: big-cap stocks are shares of larger companies
and small-cap stocks are shares of smaller companies.
Labels like these, however, are often misleading. If
you don't realize how big "small-cap" stocks
have become, you'll miss some good investment opportunities.
Small-cap stocks are often cited as good investments
due to their low valuations and potential to grow
into big-cap stocks, but the definition of small cap
has changed over time. What was considered a big-cap
stock in 1980 is a small-cap stock today. This article
will define the "caps" and provide additional
information that will help investors understand terms
that are often taken for granted. |
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| SMALL CAP NEWS |
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Should you invest in mega caps?
It wasn’t so long ago that a report by HSBC, the investment bank, predicted a reversal of fortunes for the mega caps it dubbed "super heavyweights" because the stocks are much less cyclical than the mid caps, which would be an attraction in a slowing domestic and global economic environment.
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Know When to Sell 'Em
Sometimes you’ll get behind a small, relatively-unknown stock that gains a bunch of momentum. You won’t want to bail, but eventually you will have to. Owning small stocks that are on a tear is a good way to make money, but you need to know when to sell because, sooner or later, all hot stocks will implode. |
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Earnings Season: Finding the New Set of Hot Stocks
In my lifetime, there has been a few famous lines exalting maximum effort. I found myself muttering one of them as the market surged Tuesday. "Run stocks...run." I'm like the zealot that sees a religious figure in each corn flake or silhouette from a row of hedges. I get down, but it doesn't take much to get me back on the bandwagon. Of course, it helps when stocks really are cheap. There are a gang of Blue Chip stocks changing hands near single-digit price to earnings ratios.
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5 Favorite Investment Techniques
Many of the stocks that become Cramer's top picks are taken from the new high list. However, he doesn't just copy the list, but waits for the stocks to pull back and does research on the companies.
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Citigroup returning billions to investors
Citigroup Inc. will buy back more than $7 billion in auction-rate securities and pay $100 million in fines as part of settlements with federal and state regulators, who said the bank marketed the investments as safe despite liquidity risks.
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| Boeing Firms Up Asia Foothold |
Boeing ( BA :NYSE - news - research ) is making important progress on plans to sell more than $7 billion worth of 787 Dreamliner passenger jets to Chinese airlines.
Four airlines -- Air China, China Eastern, Shanghai Airlines and Xiamen Airlines -- have signed definitive firm orders for 42 Dreamliners with list prices totaling $5.04 billion, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
A Boeing spokeswoman, Yvonne Leach, confirmed the firm orders, which cement parts of a broader preliminary agreement struck in January to sell 60 Dreamliners to six Chinese airlines.
Two of the carriers -- Hainan Airlines and China Southern Airlines -- still haven't signed firm orders, but Leach said Boeing continues to work at completing those agreements.
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