The CEO of Goldcorp, Robert McEwen turned out to be a shrewd goldbug, turning his modest ownership in the micro cap Goldcorp into a large stake in US Gold .
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The easiest method to take advantage of this effect is to go long a small- or microcap ETF such as iShares Russell Microcap ( IWC) or PowerShares Zacks Micro Cap ( PZI) or mutual fund Bridgway UltraSmall Company. ( BRSIX).
In our diversified micro cap GAMCO Westwood Mighty Mites Fund (WEMMX), merger and acquisition activity has also been robust, with six announced acquisitions of holdings in the September quarter joining the seven announced in the first half of the year.
The list of ETFs is growing every day, but for now, many of the best choices for these sectors can be addressed with mutual funds, namely the Oakmark International Small Cap I ( OAKEX) and the Wasatach Micro Cap Fund ( WMICX), both found on the Forbes Honor Roll.
But if a fund focused on small-cap or micro-cap stocks were to manage billions of dollars, given the lesser degree of liquidity for these smaller stocks, that would be problematic.
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Recently, a client hired us to research a volatile micro-cap penny stock, Nuvilex(NVLX) .
Not to mention, small- and micro-cap equities, which have been hard hit too.
If a micro-cap stock is in your large cap pension fund, is that an appropriate investment for that fund?
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As an upstart tiny micro-cap company, Wall Street has yet to discover CarCharging, so no major analyst currently follows the stock.
Did you know that a micro-cap stock was even in that fund?
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"The Bulletin Board sounds like it's more of an institution than it really is, " says veteran micro-cap investor James Mitchell of Costa Mesa, California-based Mitchell Partners.
Marc is a value stock research whiz and his newsletter seeks out micro-cap stocks that you can rely on, rather than the risky speculative ones that trade on hype and hope.
One micro-cap company that has been generating a lot of press over last few days popped onto my screen after trading over forty times its normal share volume on Wednesday May 1.
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In fact, more people involved in some of the allegedly- shady Southridge financing deals to public micro-cap companies have told me, as of this month, they have also been interviewed by the Manhattan D.
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Kennedy's investment strategy is to ride the momentum of usually small- or micro-cap stocks that break to a new significant high and then continue to put in new highs over the next six-week period.
And just as in micro-cap stocks, the most successful investors will be those who buy in for pure enjoyment, find a way to exercise some personal control over pricing or obtain some information advantage.
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What this means is that investors stand the best chance of participating in this renewed merger and acquisition cycle by investing in small to midsize companies, or micro, small-cap and mid-cap mutual funds run by investment managers with a value approach.
The opera mask on the cap is made of 2, 000 gemstones in a micro-pave pattern, including black sapphires, diamonds and rubies.
While large- and mid-cap stocks were generally held in ETFs, many smaller international companies and micro-caps are not covered yet.
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