Small Cap Companies - What Are They?

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Ricky Martin: Small caps are not the number of slices on a pie chart. He says they're companies that are eight billion dollars and below. An eight billion dollar company barely moves the needle for the s m p 500, he says. But you need to be careful about taking too much in the way of rules like small cap means this, Martin writes.

This is the fun part of being a stock investor.

Ricky Mulvey and Bill Mann, Director of Small Cap Research at The Motley Fool kick off their series on small cap investing. They discuss:

- Why small cap investors have an opportunity to beat the market. - The metrics that really matter for small caps. - Spotting B.S. from younger companies. - One small cap trend catching our attention.

Stocks mentioned: ANET, RDFN, CWH, NFLX, AMZN, CHD

Additional resource: 4 Steps to Find Small-Cap Stocks (fool.com)

Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Bill Mann Engineers: Dan Boyd, Tim Sparks

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