Derren Nathan, head of research at London-based broker Hybridan, recently shared an article on IRMagazine.com titled “How small caps can tackle investor prejudice.” In the post, Nathan shared these four reasons why most institutional investors avoid microcaps; Minimum Market Cap. “Many funds will have a minimum market cap requirement, and even where this is not an official policy, we often
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At Monday’s SEC Roundtable on Market Structure for Thinly-Traded Securities, Frank Hatheway, Nasdaq’s chief economist, said “Our markets are no longer able to support small growth companies.” Hatheway continued, “Concentration on one market would help the markets.” Nasdaq plans to petition the SEC to allow thinly-traded companies that list on Nasdaq’s main U.S. stock exchange choose whether their shares can be traded
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On Monday, three of the top four most actively traded U.S. stocks were all either riding a cryptocurrency-fueled surge, or pulling back from one. Digital Power Corp (NYSE Mkt: DPW), Marathon Patent Group (NASDAQ: MARA), and Riot Blockchain (NASDAQ: RIOT) all saw tremendous volume because of their crypto-related business. DPW’s market value jumped from $12 million on Friday to over $40 million
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Guest Post By: Jason Paltrowitz Building a Sustainable Public Company with Longer-Term Investors Much attention has focused on recent Reg A deals (Arcimoto, Shiftpixy, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Myomo and Adomani) that have listed on national exchanges (Nasdaq and NYSE). But the question remains, is this the right move for small-caps seeking to become public companies through innovative capital
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This week, IR Magazine shared a Q&A with Peter Sidoti, founder, chairman, and CEO of Sidoti & Company. One of the questions was “What are the top three macro issues small-cap IROs should be preparing for as they look to the start of 2018?” According to Sidoti, Three Macro Issues Small Cap Companies Should Prepare For are; 1. increasing illiquidity in the
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The Center for Capital Markets released a letter dated August 22, 2017 addressed to the Treasury Secretary setting out suggestions on how to increase the number of public companies. The suggestions include: Extending the Title I JOBS Act on-ramp accommodations from five to ten years for EGCs and reviewing the EGC definition; Making the JOBS Act accommodations available to all
Read moreAttending investor conferences is an important part of running a microcap public company. While the focus of most microcap teams attending these events is securing direct investment, new research shows that attending investor conferences also increases stock liquidity. The new research report shows that companies that participate in investor conferences experience a 1.4% to 2.8% increase in stock liquidity in the same
Read moreThe 2017 Marcum MicroCap conference last week was a huge success. This year’s conference saw a record number of presenting companies and had 9 great expert panel discussions. If you missed the panels, or want to see them again, recordings of all the panels can be viewed on the conference website; http://www.marcummicrocap.com/Panels. Must see panels include; “Uplisting to an Exchange“, “Regulation
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