SmallCapInvestor.com, Small Cap Investing Website Launched by
Business Financial Publishing, Celebrates One Year Anniversary
SmallCapInvestor.com is a Leading Small Cap Stock Research and
News Provider to AOL Money & Finance, FinancialContent, Google
Finance, Seeking Alpha, and Yahoo! Finance
WASHINGTON (Business Wire EON) April 24, 2008 --
SmallCapInvestor.com, the small cap investing research and news website
launched a year ago by Business Financial Publishing, today celebrated
its first birthday. Since its launch, SmallCapInvestor.com
has quickly become the premier source of independent small cap news,
research and insights for individual and institutional investors. It has
also become a leading small cap news provider to top financial websites,
including AOL Money & Finance, FinancialContent, Google Finance, Seeking
Alpha, and Yahoo! Finance.
“The number of unique visitors to our small
cap investing website has grown dramatically from virtually nothing a
year ago to more than 115,000 unique, actively engaged visitors a month
in March 2008,” said Ian Wyatt, founder and
chief investment strategist of SmallCapInvestor.com. “Three
key factors are driving this growth: individual investors interested in
small cap stocks, our research and insights into the best small cap
stocks, and teaming up with top financial websites.”
Individual Investors Interested in Small Cap Stocks
Individual investors looking for signs of a turn-around in the broad
stock market would do well to watch the fortunes of small cap companies
as well as the Russell 2000 index that measures their collective
performance. Throughout stock-market history, small cap stocks have
served as a type of leading indicator with respect to the mid- and
large-cap markets.
In the five-year bull market run from 2002 through the 2007 peak, for
instance, small cap stocks were up 164%, compared with a 97% rise for
the Dow – clearly small caps led the way up
for that great charge, and they signaled the top far more accurately
than the Dow.
The Russell 2000 index topped out for the 2002-2007 bull market in July
2007, while the Dow did not top out until October 2007, which proved to
be a false signal of hope for a market that eventually plunged 25% by
January 2008. Those following small caps strongly suspected the market
was topping out well before everyone else.
Research and Insights into the Best Small Cap Stocks
Despite the bear market conditions, the editorial staff at
SmallCapInvestor.com, led by Editor-in-Chief Bob Bogda, has uncovered a
number of the best small cap stocks ahead of the market over the past 12
months, including:
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Lindsay Corp. (NYSE:LNN), a Nebraska designer of large-scale,
technologically advanced irrigation systems. When SmallCapInvestor.com
covered Lindsay on Nov. 2 (see Lindsay
Corp: The Rainmaker), the company had a market cap of $557
million, and was trading at $46.94 a share. “Lindsay
is an often overlooked investment on potent themes of the day:
prosperous farm economy, fledgling biofuel demand and growing global
needs for efficient water irrigation,” wrote
SmallCapInvestor.com. No longer is Lindsay overlooked: This week the
$1.3 billion company was trading at its 52-week high of $124.85 for a
gain of 166%.
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Calavo Growers Inc. (Nasdaq:CVGW), a California-based purveyor of
avocados. In an interview with SmallCapInvestor.com in May 2007 (see Calavo
Growers Inc: The color of money), Calavo CEO Lee Cole made a case
for investing in what was then a $180 million company that had not yet
even attracted coverage by any Wall Street analysts. In the ensuing
months shares of the former California avocado grower’s
cooperative doubled to a high of $25.15 before settling more recently
just under $19.
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Graham Corporation (AMEX:GHM), a designer, maker and seller of vacuum
and heat transfer equipment used in the chemical, petrochemical,
petroleum refining, and power generating industries. On Feb. 4,
SmallCapInvestor.com wrote that Graham provided an alternative way for
investors to cash in on the energy boom (see Graham
Corporation: Looking golden). On Tuesday, shares of Graham were
trading at $56.00, up 70% in nine weeks.
Teaming up with Top Financial Websites
Over the past year, SmallCapInvestor.com has also become a leading small
cap news provider to top financial websites. These include AOL Money &
Finance, FinancialContent, Google Finance, Seeking Alpha, and Yahoo!
Finance.
Wyatt says, “Since I founded
SmallCapInvestor.com, my dedicated team of writers, researchers, and
reporters have focused on independent coverage of small cap stocks that
are largely afterthoughts on Wall Street and in the mainstream financial
media. Today, with the reach of our content partners adding to our
growing base of regular readers, it’s no
longer fair or advisable to call small cap stocks afterthoughts.”
About SmallCapInvestor.com
SmallCapInvestor.com
is the destination website for individual investors who are seeking
independent, reliable and wide-ranging news, research, and analysis on
small cap stocks with market capitalizations of less than $750 million.
Coverage includes the small cap benchmark Russell 2000 and Russell
MicroCap indexes, as well as articles on specific industry sectors and
individual companies that are included in these indexes. Registration
for SmallCapInvestor.com is free and open to all individual investors at http://www.smallcapinvestor.com.
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