small caps

OTC Markets, the market for stocks that don’t trade on U.S. exchanges, announced Tuesday a new compliance tool that they hope will make it easier to identify and analyze risk for small cap listed stocks. The Small-Cap Listed Compliance Product analyzes listed stocks with market caps below $...

For most of 2017, volatility has remained tame, but heading into the final weeks of trading, small-cap stocks may be in for a volatile ride. The Expert Matt Maley, an equity strategist with Miller Tabak. The Strategy As the White House appears ready to debate the tax bill, the small-cap iShares...

Sure, U.S. small-cap stocks and the related exchange-traded funds have recently been resurgent. Give the widely followed Russell 2000 Index some credit for jumping more than 4 percent over the past month to bring its year-to-date gain to almost 11 percent. An 11 percent year-to-date gain is nice,...

Small-cap stocks as measured by the iShares Russell 2000 Index (ETF) (NYSE: IWM) hit an all-time high this week, but investors should look to take some of their profit off the table, at least according to Rich Ross of Evercore ISI. Taking a step back, the Russell 2000 has been showing some signs of...

Shares of Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: CYCC) continued trading higher on Tuesday after Monday's strong gains. Cyclacel issued a press release over the weekend which detailed a presentation from independent investigators. The investigation highlighted the therapeutic potential of...

The typical “flight to safety” investments have been strong performers since the Brexit vote caught the world off guard last week. The iShares Barclays 20+ Yr Treas.Bond (ETF) (NASDAQ: TLT) is up 5.5 percent, and the SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSE: GLD) is up 4.4 percent, while the SPDR S...

It has been a ho-hum year for small-cap stocks as highlighted by a gain of 0.75 percent for the benchmark Russell 2000, and things are mixed for micro-cap exchange-traded funds — as just one of the three ETFs dedicated to smaller small-caps is up on the year. An interesting election year...

Investors typically prize small caps for growth. Rarely are these stocks and standard small-cap exchange-traded funds thought of as dividend destinations — certainly not with the Russell 2000 and the S&P SmallCap 600 sporting an average trailing 12-month dividend yield of 1.46 percent....

According to jkvaluefund, shares of China Techfaith Wireless Comm. Tech. Ltd (NASDAQ: CNTF) are priced "at dung." China Techfaith's stock has lost 53 percent from a year ago and more than 90 percent over the past 10 years. Jkvaluefund noted that the company has over $350 million in assets, but...

Credit Suisse's U.S. equity research team, led by Lori Calvasina, released a report titled "August's Sell-Off in a Nutshell." The analysts began the report by noting that the "rout" in equities over the past few days "should not be surprising" as institutional investors and traders developed...