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Just like gamblers place bets on boxers who fight in divisions based on their weight, investors, too, put their money down on stocks that are grouped together by size. All publicly traded companies...
Investment style, [1] is a term in investment management (and more generally, in finance), referring to how a characteristic investment philosophy is employed by an investor or fund manager. [2] [3] Here, for example, one manager favors small cap stocks, while another prefers large blue-chip stocks.
Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders. [ 2 ] Market capitalization is equal to the market price per common share multiplied by the number of common shares outstanding.
In the United States, a small cap company is a company whose market capitalization (shares x value of each share) is considered small, from $250 million to $2 billion. Market caps terms may be different outside the United States.
Large-cap stocks are generally considered to be safer investments than their mid- and small-cap stock counterparts because they are larger, more established companies with a proven track record.
Stock market indices may be categorized by their index weight methodology, or the rules on how stocks are allocated in the index, independent of its stock coverage. For example, the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Equal Weight each cover the same group of stocks, but the S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization, while the S&P 500 Equal Weight places equal weight on each constituent.
Jill Carey Hall, Bank of America's head of U.S. small- and mid-cap strategy, says history is on the side of small caps. She found that small caps outperform large caps by about a percentage point ...
Just like gamblers place bets on boxers who fight in divisions based on their weight, investors, too, put their money down on stocks that are grouped together by size. All publicly traded companies...