That's just the beginning of the recovery from the lows. In general, Miles sees the nursing home and health care services improving, along with info tech stocks. Clover Small Cap Value Portfolio manager, Lawrence Creatura, can't say where the small-cap market will be at the end of this year. But he does know that the Clover Small Cap has some promising companies in store. Vans, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes casual and active-casual footwear, apparel and performance footwear for skateboarding, BMX and mountain biking, and snowboard boots and snowboarding outerwear.
Revenues reflect increased domestic wholesale sales.
According to Jim Fay, small-caps are definitely moving up. For more than six years, Fay has been managing the Frontier Funds, a technological collection of small-cap hopefuls. Investors are beginning to realize the value in small-cap funds. All stocks went through a depression last fall, but most have recovered. We will continue to hold that one.