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☆ The Russell 2000 smallcaps lost about 3% last week and could face still more trouble ahead
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

This month's rout in smallcap stocks has erased the Russell 2000's sparkling first quarter gain, and the benchmark index for smaller shares could face further trouble ahead so long as interest rates are left unchanged. A hotter-than-expected March inflation report on Wednesday pushed investors on Wall Street to extend out expectations for the Federal Reserve's first interest rate cut to September from June, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool . The Fed's last interest rate increase in the current cycle was in July, 2023. Servicing debt Hall specifies that the risk to smallcaps is tied to the effect of higher interest rates on refinancing needs. "Higher for longer [interest rates have] generally been good for small cap stocks.

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☆ Large stocks celebrate record while small caps remain mired in bear market
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Small caps are conspicuously absent from Wall Street's bull market party. The S & P 500 confirmed Friday that a new bull market has begun, breaking both its intraday and closing record high from January 2022. Year to date thus far, the S & P 500 is up more than 1%, while the Dow has climbed 0.5%. "We think it's when the Fed cuts rates not if; this boosts small more than large," he wrote in a Monday note. Not everyone on Wall Street is as optimistic that Fed rate cuts will be an outsized catalyst for small caps.

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☆ Volatility is back—Here's what hedge funds are doing during the market's wild swings
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Volatility has made a comeback, and that's typically when hedge funds outperform and offer downside protection. Amid the elevated volatility, hedge funds increased their short activity, while focusing on quality stocks, according to Goldman Sachs' prime brokerage data. Specifically, hedge funds have been shorting exchange-traded funds in large cap equity, sectors and credit categories for three sessions in a row this week, Goldman said. Quality trade Meanwhile, hedge funds are pivoting to stocks with high-quality fundamentals. The real estate sector, for example, saw a net short position of 2% among hedge funds, DeSanctis said.

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☆ A key benchmark for smaller stocks could lose its 2023 gains, and that could mean trouble for bigger names
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Hakyung Kim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Whether that's just simply relative PE or our more complicated relative valuation model," DeSanctis said. Still, he added that small caps have struggled to escape the headwinds from the regional banking crisis earlier in the year. How to play small caps There's one sector both Wolfe's Ginsberg and DeSanctis like when it comes to small caps: energy. He added that small caps in the cyclicals market have traded under 13 times earnings — and better than secular growth names. "I think a lot of stuff has already been priced into small cap stocks," said DeSanctis.

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☆ Meta Platforms' return to growth index highlights annual Russell refresh
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Chuck Mikolajczak | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

REUTERS/Peter DaSilvaNEW YORK, June 21 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O) will return to its former status as a full growth stock after financial data provider FTSE Russell finishes its annual shakeup of its stock index components on Friday. Every year, FTSE Russell reconstitutes, or refreshes, the components across its indexes, such as the Russell 2000 (.RUT) index of small cap stocks and Russell 1000 (.RUI) index of large-cap names. There are also style indexes such as the Russell 1000 Growth (.RLG) and Russell 2000 Value (.RUJ). FTSE Russell says about $12.1 trillion is currently benchmarked to the Russell US equity indexes. "The growth indexes look more like growth benchmarks and the value indexes look more like cyclical value indices," said Steven DeSanctis, equity analyst at Jefferies in New York.

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☆ Investors have pulled $8 billion from this pocket of the stock market in just 2 months on recessions worries and debt ceiling fears
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Carla Mozée | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Small-cap stocks have been hurt by $8 billion in outflows from ETFs focused on that segment, says Jefferies. That started in March when Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank were seized, spooking investors. "Banks are a big part of small caps and are headwinds for the size segment," Jefferies strategist Steven DeSanctis wrote in a Wednesday research note. Meanwhile, small-cap stocks, which make up just over 4% of the equity market, tend to perform worse than large-caps when the economy is veering into a recession. Meanwhile, the current stalemate between Republicans and Democrats on the debt ceiling doesn't bode well for small-cap stocks, which slid by 25% during 2011 debt standoff.

☆ Apple is bigger than the whole market for small caps again. Here's what it means for investors
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The combined value of all of Apple 's shares is greater than the entirety of an index comprised of 2,000 small stocks. That's bigger than the combined market cap of all 2,000 stocks in the small cap-focused Russell 2000 , which was at $2.208 trillion. "It is apples to oranges — or small caps," said Willie Delwiche, founder of Hi Mount Research. DeSanctis also noted the overhang of the debt ceiling could add further pressure to small caps, given their underperformance in 2011. "If something goes right for small cap or the overall market, small can have a really nice bounce," he said.

☆ JEFFERIES: Buy these 18 stocks that are set for outperformance the rest of the year after dropping to long-term low prices
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Marley Jay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jefferies says that investors are acting like it's 2018 or 2020 and buying secular growth stocks. Strategist Steven DeSanctis says that's a mistake, as the stocks are expensive and facing headwinds. Jefferies strategist Steven DeSanctis recently warned that a lot of investors are fighting the last war when it comes to preparing their portfolios for a recession. They're doing so by buying long-term secular growth stocks, as they did at two other pivotal periods in the last few years. "Small is now back to fair value on our absolute valuation model and 15th percentile on a relative basis," DeSanctis wrote.

☆ Small caps will be large this year, says Jefferies. Here are 10 buy ideas
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Small-cap stocks could beat their large-cap counterparts in 2023, according to Jefferies. Equity strategist Steven DeSanctis said small-cap stocks have cheap relative valuations while volume has slid, high-yield spreads have tightened and cyclicals have been sold off. Expectations are low with poor sentiment for small caps, DeSanctis said. Taken together with the attractive valuations, improving merger and acquisition landscape and better macroenvironment, he said he believes small caps will outperform in 2023. Given this varied landscape, DeSanctis screened for smaller-cap stocks that have lagged year to date but do well in Jefferies' modeling.

☆ JEFFERIES: Buy these 12 underpriced, lower-risk stocks that are poised for a sharp rebound and long-term outperformance
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Marley Jay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

He says that companies with strong balance sheets and a lot of non-US revenue will outperform. But DeSanctis wrote that given the broader context, investors are more likely to reward companies with strong balance sheets. "With HY spreads widening and staying wide, weaker balance sheet companies should lag behind, especially given their cost of capital has likely risen. Companies with weaker balance sheets also perform poorly heading into an economic slowdown," he wrote. "We looked for lower risk, higher overseas revenue, clean balance sheets, came up with a dozen Buy-rated ideas," he wrote.

☆ JEFFERIES: Buy these 18 stocks that are less vulnerable to a US recession because of their strong businesses overseas
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Marley Jay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The firm suggests buying companies with strong balance sheets and those with strong overseas sales. buy-rated stocks that tend to rise as the dollar falls. One of the surprising elements of the surprising rally in stocks in 2023 is that cheap stocks with relatively shaky balance sheets are doing great. Jefferies SMID Cap Strategist Steven DeSanctis says that those less-expensive stocks and indebted stocks can't outperform forever. The correlations are all negative, meaning that the stocks and the dollar consistently move in opposite direction.

☆ Small caps are on a tear this year. Here’s how investors are playing the rally.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Pia Singh | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"A regime change, if you will, is taking place in the market, where small caps are going to do better," said Francis Gannon, co-chief investment officer at Royce Investment Partners, which focuses on small caps. Now investors are pointing to the recent rally as proof that small caps are on the verge of a prolonged period of outperformance. 'Massively outperform' Michael Sesser, equity portfolio manager of the $558-million DWS Small Cap Core fund, believes small caps will "massively outperform" large caps over the next five to 10 years. Cantaloupe , a retail service digital payments company with a $373 million market cap, and medical imaging provider RadNet ($1.2 billion market cap) are among Sesser's picks. DWS Small Cap also owns metallurgical coal producers serving the steel industry, namely Alpha Metallurgical Resources ($2.7 billion market cap), Arch Resources ($2.6 billion market cap) and Peabody Energy ($4.2 billion market cap).

☆ A 'January Effect' rally is happening in small cap stocks. Jefferies has some names to keep playing it
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Carmen Reinicke | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Small-cap stocks have surged in the first few weeks of January, confirming an outperformance that's often seen early on in a new year. So far this year, the Russell 2000 Index – which tracks small-cap stocks — is up 7.4% through Monday's close, outperforming its large-cap counterpart, the Russell 1000, which is up 5% in the same period. Even within small-cap names, the smallest companies by market share have performed the best, according to a Jan. 24 note from Jefferies. "With the calendar turning to the new year, we have seen a nice relief rally in the smallest of the small caps with names below $500M [in market capitalization] up 11.3%," wrote Jefferies small-cap strategist Steven DeSanctis. Restaurants Bloomin' Brands —which owns chains such as Outback Steakhouse and Bonefish Grill — and Dave & Buster's top the Jefferies list of small-cap names with higher-quality themes.

☆ JEFFERIES: Buy these 20 bargain-priced stocks ahead of a rebound to get 2023 off to a good start
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Marley Jay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jefferies strategist Steven DeSanctis says small-cap stocks should outperform starting in January. He put together a list of "Buy" rated steady earners that have underperformed the market this year. Jefferies says it might hold true for investors who've endured some tough losses in 2022. DeSanctis is one of a slew of analysts who've become bullish on smaller companies even if an economic downturn is looming. The stocks are ranked from lowest to highest based on the size of their losses expressed as a percentage.

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☆ Experts explain why a Russian oil price cap might fall flat and instead give Putin's biggest crude customers a boost.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

That day marks the beginning of a price cap on Russian oil, as well as a new European Union ban on seaborne Russian crude imports. "What it suggests is that Russian buyers are able to negotiate very favorable terms from Russian oil companies, who have to sell in order to maintain operations," Brew said. Because of that, it's possible that the West's price cap plan will end up falling flat, with the most noticeable result being customers in Asia bidding lower prices for Russian oil. But there's no guarantee European companies even want to handle any Russian oil at all. Nonetheless, oil markets are unlikely to react dramatically to the price cap, in Gallarati's view.

☆ JEFFERIES: Buy these 16 stocks that look cheap and poised to maintain their recent strong performance
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Marley Jay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

He recommends a group of 16 stocks that are both undervalued and showing signs of upward momentum. While he's especially positive on cyclical stocks, DeSanctis said that some other areas have showed surprising strength. "Cheap stocks with good momentum continue to perform quite well," he said. He says that very cheap stocks are doing unusually well compared to their peers, and the same goes for high-momentum stocks versus lower-momentum names. They're also in the top 40% in terms of momentum, meaning their recent performance has been stronger than the rest of the pack.

☆ Buy these 15 quality stocks that are healthy enough to rise despite a rocky earnings season, Jefferies says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Amid a harsh macro outlook, investors are looking for stocks that are healthy enough to rise. After posting another quarter of declining profits, Meta shares plunged 22% on Thursday. Jefferies recommends these 15 Russell 2000-listed stocks during a rocky earnings season. Shares of Meta, formerly known as Facebook, are also down 22% after the social media giant posted a fourth straight quarter of declining profits. Amid painful interest rate hikes, along with a volatile earnings season, investors are looking for bets that are healthy enough to rise despite a murky macro outlook.

☆ Experts are getting bullish on small caps. Here's the case for the surprise pre-recession call, and what to buy.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Marley Jay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Some leading strategists and experts are very positive on smaller companies right now. Heading into a recession, smaller companies usually look expensive compared to their bigger peers. Steven DeSanctis, a SMID-cap strategist for Jefferies, is another expert who is positive on smaller companies right now. But he notes that even though small caps have delivered better returns than large caps since June 30, investors are still pulling money out of small cap-themed ETFs. In fact, Fisher wrote that when small caps do this poorly, it can lead to powerful recoveries.

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