How To Find Small Caps to Invest In Today

Investors are looking into different asset classes and classifications within equities to diversify and increase their returns.

One area that they may look into is that of small cap equities. They will do so for a variety of reasons but mostly because they want to hold companies that will be leaders in the world and help them increase their gains.

But how? What is the most efficient to pick individual small cap stocks as an investor today?

Let us find out.

Use the Right Tool To Invest in Small Caps

The most common tool to use to identify the right small caps is quite likely Finviz. Finviz is a stock screening tool that has been around since its founding n 2007. It’s undoubtedly helped many investors move forward in their journey and will likely help many more.

The first step is to type in Finviz.com into your browser. Once you’ve gone to the site, you want to navigate to the screener tab on the upper left-hand side of the screen.

Now, you will find yourself in the descriptive tab and will see screeners for exchange, market cap, volume, etc.

Refine your market cap setting to a small-cap ($300mln to $2bln).

Investors usually also optimize for volume. They want to know that they will be able to liquidate their stocks and turn them into cash if they needed to throughout their holding period.

You may choose an average volume of over 50K to start with some safety net in volumes.

The next components are up to you and your strategy.

Investors can use Finviz to conduct descriptive, fundamental, and technical analysis via these different tabs present on the screener.

The descriptive analysis allows you to sort stocks by market cap, by index, dividend yield, target price, and even industry, short interest, and current price.

One critical point to make here is that small-cap stocks will also offer a dividend yield, and you can search for these dividend yields by looking at the dividend yield criteria in the Finviz tool. Finviz currently shows more than 600 stocks that offer a positive dividend yield.

Fundamental analysis will let you sort for companies that meet a specific price to earnings ratio, or companies that may hold low debt positions relative to equity. Remember that you can even sort for PEG and Payout ratio within the fundamental tab.

The fundamental tab is essential for a growth investor, as you can scroll over to fundamentals and search for companies that see yearly increases in sales or those that have a particular operating margin.


Get comfortable with the Finviz tool as it will be beneficial over the long-term.






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