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Dave Sekera: Taking the Market’s Temperature

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The Importance of Quality in Small Cap Stocks

Janice Henderson: Small caps look cheaper than large caps, which I guess is not surprising considering the way stocks of larger firms have spanked those of smaller companies. It seems like quality as we define it at least doesn't look cheap; you'd expect higher quality names to fetch higher multiple solvings being equal. But is it unusual to see what we call wide-moat stocks trading as richly as they are today? Yeah. When I think about quality, it goes again back to the concept of an economic moat. Does this company have specific attributes that that company will be able to generate those excess returns on invested capital? And if so, how long will those excess returns

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