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The average stock in the S&P 500 trades for 4.7 times book value and more than 27 times earnings, while the average stock in the Russell 2000 small-cap index has a price-to-book multiple of just 2 ...
The Russell Microcap Index measures the performance of the microcap segment of the U.S. equity market. It makes up less than 3% of the U.S. equity market. It includes 1,000 of the smallest securities in the Russell 2000 Index based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership and it also includes up to the next 1,000 stocks.
The Fidelity Magellan Fund (Mutual fund: FMAGX) is a U.S.-domiciled mutual fund from the Fidelity family of funds. [1] It is perhaps the world's best-known actively managed mutual fund, known particularly for its record-setting growth under the management of Peter Lynch from 1977 to 1990. [ 2 ]
Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) [1] is an American investor, mutual fund manager, author and philanthropist.As the manager of the Magellan Fund [2] at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, [3] consistently more than double the S&P 500 stock market index and making it the best-performing mutual fund in the world.
With relatively few shares available to be traded, micro-cap stocks favored by individual investors could be hit hard in a downturn. Analysis: Micro-cap stock surge shows investor risk taking ...
The S&P SmallCap 600 Index (S&P 600) is a stock market index established by S&P Global Ratings. It covers roughly the small-cap range of American stocks, using a capitalization-weighted index . To be included in the index, a stock must have a total market capitalization that ranges from $1 billion to $7.4 billion. [ 1 ]
Often, microcap stock companies will specialize in innovative products or services that may be unknown to the general public. [3] In Australia, many of them are junior mining explorers. Micro-cap and especially nano-cap stocks can sometimes experience volatility. Some of these companies fail to execute their business plans and go out of business.
The Russell indexes are objectively constructed based on transparent rules. The broadest U.S. Russell Index is the Russell 3000E Index which contains the 4,000 largest (by market capitalization) companies incorporated in the U.S., plus (beginning with the 2007 reconstitution) companies incorporated in an offshore financial center that have their headquarters in the U.S.; a so-called "benefits ...