Small Cap

Blyth (NYSE: BTH) Blyth sells household and weight management products utilizing direct marketing tactics. This marketing strategy accounts for over 75 percent of sales, a technique it began using in 1990. Aside from direct marketing, catalog and Internet sales represented 12 percent of total sales...

RF Industries (NASDAQ: RFIL) designs, manufactures and markets interconnect products (fiber optic and other specialty cables) and radio frequency wireless modems. These products are sold to individual customers, processed further and sold to governmental entities. While products are designed in...

Investors looking to add a small cap company in a unique industry to their portfolios should consider Core Molding Technologies (NYSE: CMT) Core Molding Technologies works extensively with reinforced plastics, producing sheet molding compound and molding fiberglass reinforced plastics. The firm...

Despite constant refrains regarding compelling valuations, Chinese stocks and the corresponding ETFs got off to disappointing start this year. For most China ETFs, the year-to-date numbers are still in the red. However, the valuations are still attractive and many China ETFs, popular and...

Jana Partners, a hedge-fund manager founded by Barry Rosenstein, took a large stake in Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) this quarter, according to a 13F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. With a stake of just over 21.9 million shares -- valued at more than $134 million -- Jana is now...

It has been a good year for small-caps and the major ETFs that house them. The iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (NYSE: IWM) is up 14.3 percent year-to-date while the Vanguard Small-Cap ETF (NYSE: VB) is higher by 15.6 percent. Decent performances to be sure, but not spectacular when considering...

Mark Cuban was—well—Mark Cuban on Thursday. The billionaire entrepreneur, investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, isn't one to edit his words and he certainly didn’t do it Thursday during a CNBC interview. First, some background. Worth a reported $2.4 billion, Cuban didn’t make his riches...

A hallmark of many of the most popular dividend ETFs focused on U.S. equities is that these funds are usually tilted heavily toward large-cap stocks. Venerable dividend-payers such as Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) and Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) are among the most...

Hyster-Yale (NYSE: HY) designs and manufactures forklifts, with the majority sold at retail dealerships. The company also produces aftermarket parts, which accounted for 13 percent of its 2012 revenue. Since becoming public in late 2012, the share price of Hyster-Yale has risen 25 percent with...

As U.S. stocks continue to grind higher, small-caps are getting in on the act as well. That much is highlighted by the year-to-date performances of the iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (NYSE: IWM) an the Vanguard Small-Cap ETF (NYSE: VB). Including Wednesday's gains, both IWM and VB are now up...