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TWEEDY, BROWNE COMPANY L.P.
What Has Worked in Investing
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Small Capitalization Stocks in the United Kingdom

Mario Levis, Professor at The School of Management, University of Bath, United Kingdom and John Moxon examined the association between market capitalization and investment returns in the United Kingdom for the period 1956 through 1987. Each year, all companies registered on the London Stock market were ranked according to market capitalization and sorted into deciles. The average annual investment returns are presented below in Table 31:

Table 31:
Investment Returns by Market Capitalization Decile for All Stocks Registered on the London Stock Market, 1956-1987




Decile

1 (Smallest market cap companies)

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10 (Largest market cap companies)


Average
Annual
Return

21.58%

17.75

16.97

15.62

14.71

13.69

13.07

13.19

13.31

11.40

Maximum Market
Capitalization of
company in each
group (£Millions)

£3.8

7.1

11.1

16.9

25.8

42.6

67.1

136.9

370.5

13,282.5




Small Capitalization Stocks in Canada

Angel Berges from Universidad de Madrid and John J. McConnell and Gary C. Schlarbaum from Purdue University examined the relationship between market capitalization and investment returns in Canada in "The Turn-of-the-Year in Canada," Journal of Finance, March 1984. Over the 1951 through 1980 period, 391 companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange or the Montreal Stock Exchange were ranked each year according to market capitalization and sorted into five equal number groups (quintiles).

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