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Big Differences Between Some Small-Cap ETFs
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 2:35pm | 616Read More...The Russell 2000 and the S&P SmallCap 600 Indexes are the benchmarks of benchmarks when it comes to smaller U.S. stocks. There are plenty of exchange-traded funds linked to those indexes, but for the purposes of this piece, we'll use the iShares Russell 2000 Index (ETF) (NYSE: IWM), the...
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Dividends Make A Difference For Small-Cap ETFs
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 8:52am | 613Read More...Investors typically prize small caps for growth. Rarely are these stocks and standard small-cap exchange-traded funds thought of as dividend destinations — certainly not with the Russell 2000 and the S&P SmallCap 600 sporting an average trailing 12-month dividend yield of 1.46 percent....
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Big Things In A Small Package For This Staples ETF
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 3:29pm | 520Read More...Before proclaiming consumer staples stocks as boring and small-caps as disappointing to this point in 2016, have a look at the PowerShares S&P SmllCp Csmr Stpls Pfo (NASDAQ: PSCC). The PowerShares S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples Portfolio is small-cap cousin of the popular Consumer Staples...
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Index Shuffling: Global Payments To Join S&P 500, GameStop To Join S&P MidCap 400, And More
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 9:57am | 244Read More...S&P Dow Jones Indices announced after Tuesday's market close several changes to the various equity indices it manages. Global Payments Inc (NYSE: GPN) will be added to the S&P 500 index as its acquisition of Heartland Payment Systems will imply a market capitalization that is more...
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Prestige Brands Added To S&P MidCap 400 Index, Great Western Bancorp Added To S&P SmallCap 600 Index
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 8:15am | 163Read More...S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Monday afternoon that Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PBH) will replace Cleco Corporation (NYSE: CNL) in the S&P MidCap 400 index. Cleco will be removed from the index after Wednesday's trading session, as Macquarie Infrastructure Partner's...
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SunEdison's Market Cap 'Is No Longer Representative Of The Mid-Cap Market Space'
Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 7:21am | 245Read More...S&P Dow Jones Indices announced after Wednesday's market close that WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD) will replace Sunedison Inc (NYSE: SUNE) within the S&P MidCap 400 index. According to the index operator, Sunedison's market cap is ranked at the bottom of the index and has a...
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A Premier Small-Cap Dividend Destination
Monday, March 28, 2016 - 8:13am | 552Read More...When income investors think of dividend stocks, more often than not, those thoughts focus on large- and mega-cap names, but dividend hunters should not sleep on smaller stocks. More than half of the members of the S&P SmallCap 600 Index are dividend payers, a percentage that has steadily...
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Index Shuffling: Snyder's-Lance Will Replace California Resources In S&P MidCap 400, AMAG Pharma To Replace Diamond Foods In SmallCap 600
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 9:07am | 202Read More...S&P Dow Jones Indices announced after Tuesday's market close several changes to its S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 indices. Snyder's-Lance Inc (NASDAQ: LNCE) will replace California Resources Corp (NYSE: CRC) in the S&P MidCap 400 index due to its low stock price...
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Playing It Conservative With Small-Cap ETFs
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 9:10am | 485Read More...Some obvious themes are emerging amid a poor start to 2016 for equities. Predictably, investors are favoring conservative, lower beta sectors such as consumer staples and utilities. Second, small-cap stocks and exchange-traded funds are struggling. A combination of those themes via the PowerShares...
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Index Shuffling: ComScore Added To S&P MidCap 400, Chemours Added To S&P SmallCap 600
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 12:28pm | 158Read More...Shares of COMSCORE, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) were trading higher by nearly 4 percent late Tuesday morning after S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the company's stock will be added to the S&P MidCap 400 index. ComScore's pending acquisition of Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) will...
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Index Shuffling: Extra Space Storage To Join S&P 500, EPR Properties To Join MidCap 400, WWE To Join SmallCap 600
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 9:58am | 237Read More...S&P Dow Jones announced on Wednesday several changes to its S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 indices. Extra Space Storage, Inc. (NYSE: EXR) will replace Chubb Corp (NYSE: CB) in the S&P 500 index as the company was acquired by ACE Limited (NYSE: ACE). EPR...
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Staying Passive With Small-Cap ETFs
Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 4:04pm | 696Read More...The struggles of active managers over the past several years have been well documented. Plenty of folks appear on various financial media outlets year after year proclaiming “this is a stock picker's market.” The thing is, stock-picking is difficult. Worse yet, data suggest there...
