Word: caps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
COMPANY: After its market cap fell $60 billion, Enron is mostly scrambling to pay back creditors...
...have used and admired--you have a better shot now at investing ahead of the pack. And here's the bonus: we're in the rising phase of the economic cycle for small companies. So if you're not a stock picker, just put some cash in a small-cap-stock mutual fund, and let the tide lift...
...pattern of small-cap outperformance appears to be holding this time around. The recession probably ended 18 months ago, and on cue, small stocks have outperformed the overall stock market since then. If you're thinking it might be too late to buy them, it isn't. Small stocks are 20% cheaper than large stocks, based on historical price-to-book and price-to-sales comparisons, says Steven Desanctis, director of small-cap research at Prudential Securities. Small-cap funds have seen inflows the past two months after outflows in March. So momentum is building, and we have...
...More manufacturers are offering clothing--some fashionable, some burqaesque--specially designed to protect skin from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays. Solar Eclipse sells a "driving sleeve" for arms that hang out of car windows. Sun Precautions has a nose-to-neck ventilated mask (above). And Coolibar offers a kid's cap with a protective neck drape...
...attendance is up 16%, merchandise sales are up 38%, and website traffic is up 88% over the last year. New sponsors include Gatorade and Nike. And in December the league signed a 10-year collective-bargaining agreement with its players that includes revenue sharing and a salary cap of $1.64 million a team. (The typical AFL player earns about $40,000, versus $1.1 million in the National Football League.) "We're in pretty good shape right now," says Casey Wasserman, owner of the AFL's Los Angeles Avengers, who share the Staples Center with the basketball Lakers. And, Wasserman adds...