Small Cap
End of Week review - 20 Stock Portfolio
I want to put up a few notes concerning my 20 Stock Portfolio and some of the stocks there in.
First, the portfolio seems stuck at 10 stocks. This is due to a couple of factors: First, my research time has been somewhat limited. Second, I am really looking for what I believe are special stocks [...]
VeraSun Energy back on the gas, errr Ethanol
A week ago many of the major new agencies were calling for the end of the ethanol boom. Here are stories from the Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, and the New York Times. VeraSun’s stock (VSE: 0.28 0.00 0.00%), already on a downward slide, slid harder to a low close of $10.01 on Oct 3, [...]
Postive returns of Small Cap Dividend Stocks
No. of
Companies
% of Companies
With Positive Returns
Average
Return
Large Cap, Paid Dividend
157
25%
(27%)
Large Cap, No Dividend
73
4%
(70%)
Small Cap, Paid Dividend
721
64%
20%
Small Cap, No Dividend
1056
24%
(29%)
*Price data courtesy of Capital IQ. Returns from Aug. 14, 2000, to March 15, 2003.
I have copied the above chart from a Motley Fool article that I found interesting. It tracks a shows how the [...]
Two Small Cap Triple Plays-A Contrast
This week I have been looking at two companies with a market cap in the $1 billion range, plans and operations in place to triple their business in the next few years and stock prices going in radically different directions. One is in a very old economy non global friendly business and the other is [...]
Watch List Additions: Alternative Energy
As oil prices stay high I am doing more and more research into alternative energy companies. This area ranges from start ups with what they hope is the next big thing, trading for pennies in the pink sheets to some large cap companies like ADM (ADM: 24.80 -0.30 -1.20%) and Conoco (COP: 46.62 -3.14 -6.31%), [...]
