The September 2017 issue of the SmallCap Informer newsletter has been published with two stock picks and no sell recommendations.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index ended August trading at a P/E ratio of 24.6 according to the website multpl.com. In August 2011, the P/E of the S&P 500 bottomed out at 13.8, and the climb since then to the current valuation is evidence of investors’ optimism in the large-cap market.

SmallCap Informer subscribers are invited to attend our exclusive mid-year 2017 subscribers-only webinar with SCI editor Doug Gerlach.

Just past the midpoint of 2017, small-cap stocks are lagging the broader market, with the S&P 500 Index up 10.3% year-to-date through July 30, 2017, and the Russell 2000 Index up just 4.9%. So what's the bull case for small-caps for the rest of 2017?

The July 2017 issue of the SmallCap Informer newsletter has been published with two stock picks and no sell recommendations.

Two of the SmallCap Informer stock picks profiled by The Money Show at the beginning of 2017 are among their best-performing stocks so far this year. In this interview, editor-in-chief Doug Gerlach discusses the rationale for both companies and provides an update on the current outlooks of both stocks..

The May 2017 issue of the SmallCap Informer newsletter has been published with two stock picks and no sell recommendations.

The April 2017 issue of the SmallCap Informer has been published with two sale recommendations and two stock picks.

MoneyShow.com has highlighted one of the SmallCap Informer's recent picks as one of their top selections for 2017 for small-cap growth and value investors.

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In just two weeks, the U.S. Presidential election will have been concluded (barring any repeat of the 2000 Bush-Gore imbroglio). While it may take some time for the markets to absorb the results (no matter how they may turn out), it’s also likely that many of us will be happy to have the whole election cycle behind us. It appears that investors may have more to look forward to in the last quarter of 2016 beyond the conclusion of a divisive political campaign.

This slogan, at first glance apparently oxymoronic, actually makes sense as you sip one of their brews, all easily distinguishable from the pale yellow mass-market beers nearly always served up by multi-national brewery conglomerates these days.

The July 2016 issue of the SmallCap Informer has been published and is available online for subscribers at www.SmallCapInformer.com. Subscribers may log in to view the current issue and archives as usual. Print subscribers should expect to receive their issues by U.S. Mail within 4-5 business days.

The April 2016 issue of the SmallCap Informer is available for subscribers with two sell recommendations and two buy recommendations.

Out of the dozens of typical year-end wrap-up stories that proliferate this time of year, one headline stood out for me. On Bloomberg.com, Lu Wang wrote an article titled “The Year Nothing Worked: Stocks, Bonds, Cash Go Nowhere.” As of December 28, 2015, Wang observed that “With three days left in 2015, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained 2.2% with dividends, cash is up less, while bonds and commodities show losses.”

While many investors were happy to see the sideways market of 2015 finally end, January brought little relief and few signs of upward motion. In fact, for small-cap investors, January brought with the advent of the new year a bear market for small-caps.

The January 2016 issue of the SmallCap Informer is now available for subscribers, with two small stock picks for you to consider. Subscribers should log in ASAP to download or read the issue and the accompanying SSG stock studies.

The September 2015 issue of the SmallCap Informer is now available for subscribers. Editor-in-Chief Douglas Gerlach and analyst Adam Ritt have two small stock picks for you to consider, and one sale recommendation. Log in ASAP to download or read the issue and the accompanying SSG stock studies.

The long-awaited market correction finally—though fleetingly—arrived in August, with the S&P 500 index declining 13% from the all-time high set in May. September brought some relief, but stocks ended the third quarter down about 6.7% for the year.

Late in the 2007 season, the Baltimore Orioles suffered one of the most lopsided defeats in the history of Major League Baseball, a 30-3 trouncing by the Texas Rangers. The 30 runs scored by the Rangers set the American League record and were the most runs scored in a game in the past 110 years in professional baseball. When asked how to handle such a demoralizing defeat, O’s manager Dave Trembley replied, "You have a real short memory and you let it go."

The SmallCap Informer focuses on small company stocks, this much is true. However, the definition of “small” is not as easily determined as it might at first appear. There are a number of methods that are used by various data providers, educational organizations, and market indexes to identify small-cap stocks, and just as many different actual definitions.