Now Is The Time For Small Caps
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🗓️ 26 June 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Strategy Week begins! Bill Mann shares why he believes right now is a good time for small cap stocks and why small caps are not riskier than large caps. Plus, we delve into one of the key factors in evaluating smaller companies, two small caps that Bill likes right now, and the one type of small cap to avoid.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Harries for supporting this episode of Market Foolery. |
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| 0:10.8 | It's Monday, June 26th. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to Mark of Fullry. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Chris Elle joining me in studio today for Molly Full One, Bill Mann. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:20.0 | How are you? |
| 0:21.0 | I'm good. |
| 0:22.0 | It's strategy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You were, you were trying to tell me it was strategy week and I think that's nonsense. |
| 0:28.3 | It is strategy week here on market floor so we're going to be drilling down on a different |
| 0:32.4 | strategy every day and with Bill Mann in the room. |
| 0:36.0 | We're going to talk about small caps because that's I know that's been a passion of yours. |
| 0:41.0 | That's my bag baby for a long time and this is something you've |
| 0:44.8 | talked about recently that this is a good time for small caps right now. Why is |
| 0:50.1 | that? Well if you believe, if you believe that things come back to equilibrium, we have had a market |
| 0:57.8 | over the last seven years, call it, in which large large cap domestic stocks have beaten almost every other |
| 1:06.6 | asset class and if you look in the US it's been large caps and it's been |
| 1:10.3 | mid caps and it's been small caps and then it's been micro caps in terms of in |
| 1:14.7 | terms of performance. So the small cats had a really good year in in 2016 and |
| 1:21.0 | have had a good year so far in 2017, but they are relatively, there's bargains to be found |
| 1:28.5 | in small caps that are not to be found in the largest companies in the United States. |
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