Domestic Equities

Small Cap Value

Leverage proprietary research to uncover investments with the potential to offer consistent returns over the long term and downside protection through market cycles.

Our experienced small cap equity investment team conducts bottom-up research, looking for companies with management teams that are focused on sustainable and/or improving Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and low embedded expectations. These efficient allocators of capital typically service niche markets and have defendable competitive advantages.
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Investment Philosophy

Our Small Cap Value philosophy is founded on the belief that excess returns are achieved by investing in companies at or near inflections in expected ROIC. We seek to identify catalysts of change for improved returns while guarding for risk.

Strategy Description

Our Small Cap Value strategy utilizes a value investment approach and consists of companies with market capitalizations that do not typically exceed the largest market capitalization company in the Russell 2000® Value Index. The strategy typically holds between 70 to 85 securities diversified across industries and generates moderate turnover. We integrate Environmental, Social and Governance factors into our fundamental research process.

Learn more about the strategy in this video.

Approach

Return On Invested Capital (ROIC) Focus

During the last 20 years, Russell 2000 companies with the highest ROICs have outperformed their peers on a quarterly basis 72% of the time1. Early identification of catalysts that can improve a company's ROIC is one way we believe we gain our competitive advantage.

Improving Catalysts

We look to identify companies with low embedded expectations that have company specific return-improving catalysts. We do not buy a stock simply because it's cheap. Our process often helps us discover catalysts for change that Wall Street has not identified and may be overlooked by our competitors.

Invest in Niche Market Companies

We focus on companies with a defendable competitive advantage that compete in smaller markets. Niche markets naturally have less competition, allowing more opportunities for growth and value creation.

Invest in Underperforming Companies

We take a contrarian approach to identify out-of-favor companies with the potential to improve ROIC. These companies typically have very attractive valuations, which we believe gives us an early-entry advantage.

Portfolio Managers

Mark T. Dickherber, CFA, CPA

Director of Small Cap Strategies

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Shaun P. Nicholson

Senior Portfolio Manager

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1Represents performance of Russell 2000 companies ranked in the top two quintiles for highest in terms of ROIC. Source: Furey Research Partners, FactSet. As of 3.31.22.

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