Microcap
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
the Neon Show
Capital Allocators
4 statements about Microcap, every show
Shenoy: Indian SME Microcaps Suffer From Overvaluation and Widespread Fraud
“There's always going to be some fraud because they're overvalued right now. Some of them are. I don't know about all of them, but microcaps do have a lot of fraud.”
Bares Capital spent eight years manually analyzing micro-cap stocks without computer screens
“We actually do, despite the quantitative aspects of my old firm and my math background, we do no computer screening or filtering. Like we started from A and went to Z and microcap. It took us eight years, but we did it.”
Liow: Institutions struggle against individuals in microcaps, leaving the market inefficient
“It's very difficult for institutions to compete against individuals in microcap. Henceforth, it's systematically Inefficient.”
Quantitative stock ranking models disproportionately favor illiquid micro-caps
“Within the best ranked things, and this is true for most quantitative strategies, a disproportionate share of the most attractive things to virtually any quantitative ranking model are micro cap or small cap. And they're illiquid. So they're trading a few 100,…”