Viscerally, I feel the market has witnessed too many upsets in big- cap properties.
Big-cap blue chips are one of the only areas in the marketplace where we're finding attractive risk-reward equations.
Easy credit and the Nifty Fifty bounce in big-cap stocks in 1972 had created scores of bloated conglomerates.
The typical hedge fund allocates some 36% of its assets in such lage-cap stocks, suggesting that they tilt towards the big-cap stocks.
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In 2010, according to the research firm ISI Group, big-cap tech as a group had its highest operating margins ever, around 20%.
The bull run of 1996-97 left small-cap and midcap stocks in the dust, but now many big-cap growthies and financials are casualties.
But some of those stocks, including big-cap market leaders that faltered because of disappointing quarterly results, have become even more undervalued as a result.
EMC's ten-year shareholder returns are pretty lousy (-13% annualized), but in the past five years Tucci beat all but four of his big-cap tech peers with 10% annual earnings growth.
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Anyone who makes money going forward could earn it in big-cap, mid-cap or small-cap stocks--even Internet stocks--but if interest rates rise further (as I think they will), you'll need more earnings under your belt.
Year-to-date, fireworks in big cap names cover Apple, Wal-Mart, General Electric, Wells Fargo, Oracle, Philip Morris International, Merck, Amazon, Visa and Qualcomm.
Enron had become a big SO2 market cap-and-trade player.
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It was already the smallest in terms of market-cap of the big Wall Street banks.
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The coach thought that 22-year-old Scotland A cap Fraser was facing a "big season" after being handed a one-year contract.
In 1991 and 1992 small-cap funds outpaced their big-stock brethren by up to 20 percentage points.
He wore his belt gun which was a big long dragoon pistol, the cap-and-ball kind that was old-fashioned even at that time.
Dessauer likes large-cap companies with a big exposure in emerging economies.
Obama's big initiative will be some sort of cap-and-trade scheme for carbon dioxide emissions.
One small-cap retailer that serves a big niche, or perhaps more accurately a niche of the big and tall, has been absolutely ablaze of late.
Ecevit, a short, slight man whose big spectacles, fierce mustache and ever-present blue cap made him instantly recognizable, was always a strong secularist.
Dessauer likes large-cap U.S. companies with big exposure in emerging economies.
Of course none of those guys are named LeBron James, Dwyane Wade or Chris Bosh which was the goal these past two years as the team furiously cleared cap space in hopes of landing multiple big-time free agents.
My quest for small-cap growth stocks often turns to companies reporting big earnings surprises.
Mr Obama, of course, had called for such an overarching plan, in the form of a cap-and-trade scheme for all big sources of emissions, only to be rebuffed by the Senate, thanks not just to Republicans but to a number of conservative Democrats too.
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It usually offer much better returns than I can get even from other kinds of small-cap investing, and this segment offers opportunities to hit big-time investment home runs.
Only Nasdaq has a significant number of its own stocks, largely a mixture of large-cap technology shares and companies too small to qualify for the Big Board.
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Until a carbon price is established, either in the form of a carbon tax or revealed by the markets through a cap-and-trade mechanism, many companies will put big capital spending plans on hold.
Reason: a hole in the salary cap that permits teams with big suite and corporate sponsorship revenues to end-run the rule.
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