Market Cap Performance
A Fond Remembrance Of Y2K… And Great Values
We’ve participated in this year’s upside market surge, while at the same turning a bit wistful in remembrance of a simpler and saner stock market era—an era when one could buy more than a third of the Leuthold 3000 stock universe for less than 14x earnings. Yes, that’s the comparative period of stock market sanity that existed in late February 2000, just days before the NASDAQ Composite made its historic bubble-era peak.
Small Cap vs Mid Cap vs Large Cap
Small Cap Premium Jumps to 12%
Capitalization Tier Meausres
Continuing to evaluate Leuthold Index methodology.
Capitalization Tier Meausres
Continuing to evaluate Leuthold Index methodology.
Capitalization Tier Meausres
Continuing to evaluate Leuthold Index methodology.
Capitalization Tier Meausres
Continuing to evaluate Leuthold Index methodology.
Large Cap Versus Small Cap: Inside The S&P 500
Poor performance by Large cap technology issues had a very negative impact on S&P 500 cap weighted performers in 2000.
Capitalization Tier Meausres
Continuing to evaluate Leuthold Index methodology.
Capitalization Tier Meausres
Currently evaluating Leuthold Index methodology.
Capitalization Tier Meausres
Currently evaluating the Leuthold Index methodology.
Capitalization Tier Meausres
Currently evaluating Leuthold Index methodology.
View From The North Country
Dividends do matter, especially as an important component of total return. Also, a recent study published in the Financial Analyst Journal tries to get at the root of large cap, growth stock dominance in the 1990s.
Capitalization Tier Meausres
The Leuthold Group has set out to create a more realistic assessment of Big, Mid, Small, and Micro cap performance.
Capitalization Tier Meausres
The Leuthold Group has set out to create a more realistic assessment of Big, Mid, Small, and Micro cap performance.
Capitalization Tier Meausres
The Leuthold Group has set about to create a more realistic assessment of Big, Mid, Small, and Micro cap performance.
Capitalization Tier Meausres
The Leuthold Group has set about to create a more realistic assessment of Big, Mid, Small, and Micro cap performance.
New Capitalization Tier Measures
New Leuthold Capitalization Tier performance measures explained and detailed.
Performance By Cap Tiers...Our New Measures
S&P 500, S&P 400, and Russell 2000 may not always present accurate readings of Big cap, Mid cap and Small cap performance, respectively.
New Improved Performance Measures For Capitalization Tiers
Today’s popular stock indices may be overweighted toward tech.
1999 Performance: Big Caps Versus Small Caps
Small cap performance actually nosed out Big Cap +19.6 for Russell 2000 and +19.5% for S&P 500 (price only). Who would have believed it?
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