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.

“Discovering Superior Small-Cap Stocks.” That’s the motto of our newsletter, the SmallCap Informer. Each month, we aim to deliver ideas for long-term-oriented investors who are interested in the higher growth and return potential offered by small-cap companies.

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.

Navigator Holdings (NVGS) is the owner and operator of the world's largest fleet of handysize liquefied gas carriers and provides international and regional seaborne transportation of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), petrochemical gases, and ammonia for energy companies, industrial users, and commodity traders. We first profiled the company in the July 2014 issue of the SmallCap Informer when the stock was selling at $29.26. The current P/E ratio at the time was 20.0 based on TTM EPS of $1.40. Following is our current outlook on the stock.

The June 2015 edition of the SmallCap Informer has just been published. In it, we introduce a stock from a sector that we haven’t covered previously, real estate. Our pick is a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), a type of investment security that can provide important diversification elements and other advantages for the portfolios of many investors.

Before you invest in any growth-oriented equity, you should understand where that business is in the spectrum of the typical company life cycle. This knowledge is often more useful with smaller or “emerging” businesses that don’t have as extensive a track record as their more established brethren.

As the first quarter of 2015 winded to a close, small-cap stocks turned in better performance than large-caps. The Russell 2000 index added 3.9% year-to-date, compared with just 1.1% for the S&P 500. Here our are top four trends to watch for the rest of 2015.

As the small-cap stock market heats up in the second quarter of 2015, several of the stocks followed in the SmallCap Informer are reaching rather lofty valuation levels, raising the question of whether or not it might be prudent to lighten up on positions in those holdings.