ValueWalk
The author of this article is a contributor to ValueWalk.com. ValueWalk is your everyday source of breaking and evergreen news on everything hedge funds and value investing.
ValueWalk's Latest Posts
“This Market Is Absolutely 100% Going To Crash”, You Sure About That?
Him: “This market is absolutely 100% gonna crash.” Me: “You sound so certain?” Him: “Just look at the valuations.” Me: “Pricey valuations don’t always culminate in a market crash. There are other factors to consider.” Him: “Trump trade is over, and I’m now 50% hedged on US exposure and net long EMs. Plus, the dollar is finished. […]
GDXJ Re-balancing Creates Opportunity In Small Cap Names
With the GDXJ down-weighting junior producers, investors might wonder how they can get broad exposure to small-cap mining stocks. Last month I told you about the upcoming rebalance of the hugely popular VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ), and how it would distress shares of junior, small-cap mining stocks. I said then that the […]
Investing In Disruption
The following is a summary of our recent FS Insider podcast, “Investing in Global Robotics – Interview With ROBO Global’s Bill Studebaker”… Society Needs to Get Ready For investors looking to gain exposure to the fast-growing robotics industry, there are very few pure-play companies, says Bill Studebaker of ROBO Global (Nasdaq: ROBO). For that reason, […]
What It Takes To Make A Product Viral
A great TechCrunch piece on Why Amazon is eating the world just put a vintage Jeff Bezos quote back into circulation: I very frequently get the question: “What’s going to change in the next 10 years?” I almost never get the question: “What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?” And I submit […]
The Global Technology Buildout And Its Effect On Small-Cap Stocks
Portfolio Manager Bill Hench talks about the significance of the current global technology buildout and its effects on his portfolios. The tech buildout has been composed of a number of different things, primarily artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, public/private clouds, and really, the birth of a semiconductor capital equipment group in China. We’re talking about whole […]
Four Ways To Find (Truly) New (Investment) Ideas
A lot of investors say they want to find great unique ideas, off-the-radar ways to make a lot of money. But it’s a lot more difficult than it sounds. So, few people do what they have to do to find those great ideas. And as a result, they don’t make a lot of money. What […]
4 Main Investing Strategies You Should Know
In the professional investing world, there is a popular saying that all the portfolio managers and analysts talk about: “there’s more than one way to skin a cat.” This refers to the concept that there is no such thing as the absolute “best” investment strategy. Instead, every investment strategy has its own unique set of […]
Why You Should Consider Global Small Caps
Because the American equity markets have enjoyed an abnormally long period, – historically speaking, – of relative outperformance versus the rest of the global marketplace, a common plea among financial advisors and writers has been for investors to maintain discipline and continue to invest abroad. This, of course, makes sense; after all, a good portion […]
A Small-Cap Pause That Refreshes?
Co-CIO Francis Gannon analyzes the cross-currents and reversals in 1Q17 and details why the small-cap rally has room to run. Observations on a Curious Quarter 2016’s Reversals Reversed Stocks saw reversals in leadership based on market capitalization, style, and sector in 1Q17. Large-caps outpaced small-caps, growth beat value, and healthcare stocks shook off a weak […]
Can Small-Caps Resume Their Rocket Ride?
Though the “Trump bump” helped, the year-old winning streak in smaller stocks owes far more to the spirited US economy. This rally has firepower, but we’d be choosy in riding the next leg higher. US small-caps have been on a tear for the past year. The small- and mid-cap Russell 2500 Index rocketed 17.6% in […]
Undervalued Goldfield Corp, Well Positioned For Continued Growth
One of the cheapest stocks in our Acquirer’s Multiple, Small & Micro Cap – Stock Screener is Goldfield Corp (NYSEMKT:GV). With a market cap around $136 million, few investors have ever heard of this great little micro-cap. Goldfield Corporation (Goldfield), is a leading provider of electrical construction and maintenance services in the energy infrastructure industry primarily in […]
