Planet MicroCap Podcast | MicroCap Investing Strategies

Episode 24 - Understanding How to Value a MicroCap Stock with Sam Namiri, Grand Slam Asset Management

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Sam Namiri, Associate at Grand Slam Asset Management. I’ve met Sam at many MicroCap conferences over the years, and we would exchange ideas about what is going in the MicroCap market. I thought it would be informative to do an interview with Sam and share with all of you what I’ve learned in my conversations with him. In this interview, we discuss Sam’s MicroCap investing strategy and how that’s evolved since he started at lunch-time in high school. Specifically, what I thought was very interesting for this interview and the goal for this episode is to understand how to value a MicroCap stock, according to Sam.

The Planet MicroCap Podcast is brought to you by SNN Incorporated, publishers of StockNewsNow.com, The Official MicroCap News Source, and the MicroCap Review Magazine, the leading magazine in the MicroCap market - check out the latest issue here: MicroCap Review Winter/Spring 2016

In this episode, Sam and I discuss the following topics: 

- Sam's background and how did he got into MicroCaps

- How Sam goes about investing in MicroCap stocks - his investing strategy

- What a quality MicroCap company according to Sam

- Timing – how do you know when to buy, sell or hold

- On the podcast, most of guests recommend to sell when something fundamental about the company changes – messaging, management or business model – how Sam measures that and how he assesses if a fundamental change in the company will result in something worse or better

- How he assesses a quality business model

- What is a financial model and why is that important when doing due diligence

- What is a value investor and why is that philosophy making a come back of sorts?

- What experience did he learn the most from

- His advice for new MicroCap investors

For more information about Sam Namiri, you can follow him on Twitter @SNamiri, and please visit: www.gslamcap.com

You can follow the Planet MicroCap Podcast on Twitter @BobbyKKraft, and you can also listen to this interview on StockNewsNow.com

Episode 23 - MicroCaps Value Uncovered: White Paper with Donald Porter, DGHM & Co.

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Donald Porter, Senior Vice President at DGHM & Co. I met Donald a couple months ago, and we were talking about how his firm was working on a white paper talking about MicroCap stocks. I followed up with him and he sent it over. The white paper is titled, “MicroCaps Value Uncovered,” and I thought, rather than dissecting the paper myself, why not invite Donald onto the podcast to explain the firm’s thesis.

And furthermore, as the first line of the thesis states, “The world of microcap stocks is an exciting, vast and rich place to allocate capital.” That got my attention and I wanted to hear more, so here we go.

The goal for this episode is to learn about the opportunities when investing in MicroCap Stocks, according to DGHM & Co., what makes MicroCap stocks interesting today relative to other asset classes, and an understanding of MicroCap stocks as compared to large caps.

The Planet MicroCap Podcast is brought to you by SNN Incorporated, publishers of StockNewsNow.com, The Official MicroCap News Source, and the MicroCap Review Magazine, the leading magazine in the MicroCap market - check out the latest issue here: MicroCap Review Winter/Spring 2016

In this episode, Donald and I discuss the following topics: 

- Mr. Porter's background, and you were introduced to investing in MicroCap stocks.

- Motivation for why DGHM, recently put out a white paper, titled, “MicroCaps: Value Uncovered”

- According to the paper, why MicroCaps beat large caps over the long term

- The difference between value Microcap stocks vs. growth microcap stocks and why this is important to understand

- In the paper, it states, “passive investment in microcaps has not been successful," he explains what this means

- Why the liquidity risk premium is a driving factor for microcap performance

- What are some other characteristics that make MicroCap investing attractive

- What are the parallels with Microcap vs. Private Equity and what is the fundamental difference when owning a microcap vs. shares in a private company in one’s portfolio

- What makes MicroCap stocks interesting today relative to other asset classes

-  In summary, the key points Donald would like our audience to take away from reading the white paper

For more information about DGHM & Co., please visit: www.DGHM.com

You can follow the Planet MicroCap Podcast on Twitter @BobbyKKraft, and you can also listen to this interview on StockNewsNow.com