Small cap blues: A man lies on a bench outside the New York Stock Exchange at Wall Street in New York City. Small-cap companies are expected to post year-over-year declines of over 90% in second quarter earnings due to the coronavirus. — AFP
NEW YORK: Investors are searching for bargains in the world of US small-caps, as the beaten-down asset class prepares for what may be the worst earnings season in its history amid a resurgent coronavirus pandemic.
Small-cap companies are expected to post a year-over-year earnings declines of about 90% as companies report their second-quarter results over the next several weeks, compared to a 67% hit for mid-caps and 44% for large-caps, according to Jefferies. That would be the largest drop since the fourth quarter of 2008, data from S&P Dow Jones Indices showed.
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