Since 1925, market data indicates that small-cap stocks outperform the broader stock market in January.
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Fund managers go after big cap stocks like IBM that can increase their margins.
What's intriguing here is that the biggest stock market rises have been with small-cap stocks.
Moreover, companies with increasing dividends have outperformed other large cap stocks over the past year.
Small cap stocks fared worse, with returns of 7.6%, 0, 8%, 31.6% and 13.8%, the researchers say.
If I see them start to utilize the capital, I will be long on large-cap stocks.
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Half the money goes into late-stage venture capital, the other half into small-cap stocks.
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McPherson offered two examples of these small cap stocks that benefit from muted economic growth.
In other words, they are less correlated to large-cap stocks than long-term Treasuries are.
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On the surface, the numbers back this strategy up, at least for large-cap stocks.
Over the long haul, small-cap stocks have been shown to outperform their larger counterparts.
Thus, under calmer market conditions, diversification benefits can be realized even among large-cap stocks.
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Investors who want to reduce their risk should cut their exposure to small-cap stocks.
Small-cap stocks still might be worth buying if they were inexpensive in relation to fundamentals.
The turnaround has belied many of the reasons given for the continued strength of large-cap stocks.
ETF, you basically own large-cap stocks with no strong bias toward value or growth.
Look at how much you have allocated to large-cap stocks, small-cap stocks, international stocks and bonds.
When looking for value stocks, I tend to stick with mid- to large-cap stocks, or sometimes ETFs.
Many are widely held large-cap stocks, including Avon Products (AVP), Juniper Networks (JNPR), and Energizer Holdings (ENR).
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Extend the time horizon out ten years, and the performance disparity between large-cap and small-cap stocks widens.
The majority of respondents said large-cap stocks, especially those that pay dividends, will deliver the best returns.
Easy credit and the Nifty Fifty bounce in big-cap stocks in 1972 had created scores of bloated conglomerates.
According to the Ibbotson SBBI 2011 Yearbook, long-term Treasuries have a correlation coefficient of 0.11 to large-cap stocks.
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This might offer hope that at least a few large-cap stocks still have some upside left in them.
Unlike so many of America's small-cap stocks, few of Japan's are sexy technology companies with strong growth potential.
For example, there are large-cap stocks with a good 52-week performance, lackluster four-week returns and comparatively attractive valuations.
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Pennies are perfectly reasonable for some issuers, especially large market cap stocks, but not so reasonable for others.
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This niche investment style lagged large-cap stocks for 17 years starting in 1984.
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