Small cap Archive

It can be challenging for small and micro-caps to garner attention from high-quality investors and sell-side analysts in the best of times. The unsettling impact of the Covid-19 crisis has made this always-difficult job even more challenging. Uncertainty, however, should not mean inaction. Regardless of circumstances, companies and their IR teams should focus on developing a clear and compelling investment thesis, employing consistent communications, establishing an...

A prominent small and mid-cap sell-side expert has warned that small caps may be more exposed to risk in the economic fallout of the Covid-19 outbreak. Speaking at IR Magazine’s virtual West Coast Think Tank last month, Jill Carey Hall, head of US small and mid-cap strategy and senior US equity strategist at Bank of America Global Research, said large caps fared better as the stock market rallied in April. ‘Obviously a lot of small busin...

As the public market for thousands of early-stage and growth companies, OTC Markets Group has seen the good, the hard and the plain ugly when it comes to what happens after a capital-raising. Even in the best of economic times, issuers often fall prey to bad advisers offering ‘too good to be true’ financings with terms that dump shares, dilute shareholder value and destroy companies. Small and micro-caps have always had to work harder to secure growth capital. T...

IR Magazine has released a comprehensive report into the practice of IR at small-cap companies. Based on data from the past three years of our Global IR Survey, the Small-Cap IR report provides an analysis of investor relations at small-cap companies in comparison to the practice of IR at other cap sizes.   Click here to download the report ...