Small caps

Impossible Foods is exploring options to go public either via traditional IPO or SPAC, according to Reuters. The company is one of the largest in the plant-based food market and a main competitor for Beyond Meat Inc (NASDAQ: BYND). Here are some of the SPACs that could bring Impossible Foods public...

Businesses scrambled to raise money in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic forced companies to shore up weak balance sheets and raise capital. Apart from that, 2020 was the second-best year for IPOs after 2007, raising $300 billion globally.  The top five U.S. investment banks were at the...

Having college and professional athletes play sports during a pandemic can create logistics problems with social distancing and COVID-19 testing. Two small cap companies have won contracts to help leagues with testing. Opko Health: BioReference Laboratories, owned by Opko Health (NASDAQ: OPK), was...

Benzinga held its inaugural Benzinga Global Small Cap Conference, a day of dealmaking, networking, and learning, on Dec. 8-9, 2020. In recognition of those disruptive innovators creating positive and diverse change, Benzinga presents Datasea Inc (NASDAQ: DTSS). About: Founded in 2014,...

They've been around for decades, but it wasn't until this year that special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) really took the financial world by storm. What Happened: Where there's a hot theme, an exchange-traded fund usually isn't far behind that's the case with the 2020...

Benzinga held its inaugural Benzinga Global Small Cap Conference, a day of dealmaking, networking, and learning, on Dec. 8-9. In recognition of those disruptive innovators creating positive and diverse change, Benzinga presents Fundamental Income. About: Fundamental Income is a multi-faceted...

Benzinga will empower industry-wide innovation by featuring those businesses and individuals creating positive and diverse change at the 2020 Benzinga Global Small Cap Conference on Dec. 8-9, two days of deal-making, networking, and learning In bridging the gap between publicly traded companies,...

Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE) has made a strategic investment of $250 million in Epic Games, the two companies announced Thursday. What Happened The Japanese conglomerate will own a 1.4% stake in the company best known as the maker of the cooperative shooter-survival game Fortnite, according to a...

The United States Senate remained divided along party lines over an economic stimulus package to counter the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak again on Monday. Votes Divided On Party Lines The senators voted 49-46 in favor of the stimulus, falling well short of the required 60 votes. Alabama...

SoftBank Group Corp’s (OTC: SFTBY) directors have approved a plan to repurchase shares totaling 4.5 trillion yen or $41 billion, leading to the company's stock registering the biggest daily gains in 12 years. What Happened SoftBank Group (SBG) announced Monday its plans to sell...

Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors. Insiders at some small-cap biotechs have made notable share purchases. At two of them, the shares were sold in recent secondary offerings. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10% owners really only buy shares of a company...

The Emirati royal family has taken a stake in the Crypto Price Index (CPI) project, a cryptocurrency analog of the Dow Jones Industrial Average that operates on the blockchain. The development comes as the royal family believes that volatile and uncertain digital asset markets need...

The consumer staples sector, the sixth-largest sector weight in the S&P 500, has been rightfully derided as one of this year's worst-performing groups. The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLP), the largest exchange traded fund tracking the sector, and other traditional cap-...

Cloud computing name salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM) is likely to report strong fourth-quarter results with sustained demand trickling into its fiscal 2019, according to Morgan Stanley.  The company is scheduled to report after the market close Feb. 28. The Analyst Analyst Keith Weiss...

Myomo Inc (NYSE: MYO) has caught the gaze of some brazen admirers. Ossur and current partner Ottobock “have been inquisitive in the past” about buyout possibilities, Myomo CEO Paul Gudonis told Benzinga Tuesday at the LD Micro Conference. He posited additional merger potential in Asian...