Focus on Small Value Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Posted by ei-forum in Investing.trackback
We already posted these graphs at the beginning of the year but recent discussions with some of our readers prompted us to post them again.
This fist chart shows performance after recessions, clearly showing the advantage of investing in small caps (furthermore, strengthening dollar will also help them):
This second graph shows the breakdown between small vs large caps and value vs growth.
This is just some food for thought and a little help for some readers that could not find the graphs in our archive.
Hope this helps!
Stumble It!
Explore Investors Blog Network
[...] Naturally, as our reader know, we prefer small cap value (they out perform! – see post and graphs: here) – but generally speaking, we always try to focus on [...]
Interesting to see the largest spike in the 1927-2002 chart was in around 1937, just as the country was emerging from the depression.
indeed.. there is always light at the end of the tunnel!