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10 Under the Radar Small & Micro-Cap Value Stocks (Ex-Healthcare)

The accompanying table presents 10 small and micro-cap companies from a variety of industries which are trading at value parameters, with average valuations for the group of 0.54X trailing 12-month sales, 0.44X enterprise value to sales, 0.88X book value, and 8.7X trailing 12-month earnings. The iShares Russell 2000 Small-Cap Value ETF (IWN) has lost about 39% in the past year and serves as a useful ETF benchmark comparison for these companies.

Industrials – Textile Manufacturing: Culp

Contrary to consumer behavior in retail, investors tend to shy away from the stock market when shares are cheap, but seem to be drawn to it like moths to a flame during market bubbles, when prices are highly inflated.<!----> In its June 2008 issue, The Wall Street Journal’s magazine “Smart Money” published a chart showing how investors are pulling money out of mutual funds during down markets. In other words, they are selling low.

Another example: Between 1973 and 2002, NASDAQ stocks gained an annual average of 9.6%. Yet, on average, investors only earned about 4.3% annually. One reas

Last week, WiMAX (wireless broadband data communications) took center stage in the tech sector with the announcement on Wednesday by Sprint Nextel Corp (S), and Clearwire Corp.<!----> (CLWR), that they had finally decided, after many months of prevarication, to merge their WiMAX networks. Backed financially by giants such as Intel Corporation (INTC), Google Inc. (GOOG), and cable companies Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and Time Warner Inc. (TWX), the move has rekindled excitement among investors about the technology.

Of the Israeli companies in the sector, Alvarion (ALVR)soared 28% over the week, m

Alvarion (ALVR) came out with earnings yesterday morning, May 5th, and according to the company, its first-quarter loss narrowed on markedly stronger sales. <!--more-->The company reported a net loss of $601,000, or 1 cent per share, compared with $623,000, or 1 cent per share, in the first quarter of 2007. (The per-share discrepancy is due to a higher number of outstanding shares compared with the same period last year).

Excluding discontinued operations, one-time costs and gains, the company earned $2 million, or 3 cents per share, compared with $1.3 million, or 2 cents per share, in t

Readers: I write to share with you my recent decision to increase my exposure to foreign stocks for my longer term portfolio. I most recently wrote to you about my two favorite foreign stock plays in The Netherlands and Malaysia . Each of those countries are doing well and my outlook remains bullish for them. I am now going to suggest a third country play. For international investing, I like starting with a country and then working my way down to stocks. If I cannot get a good feel for any individual companies, but remain bullish on the country, I simply pick-up an ETF. If you are

Alvarion recently released quarterly results, and they looked good. Revenue was slightly better than estimates, as was EPS (0.03 vs. estimate of 0.02). Next quarter's guidance is also good, as it calls for revenue of $49-53M (estimate of 50M) and EPS of 0.01 to 0.04 (estimate of 0.01).  Q4 BreezeMAX revenue was $24M, which was nearly 50% of total revenue; they also had 7 deals over $1M, with Q4 gross margin of 52%.  As a larger proportion of revenue is attributable to BreezeMAX, their true revenue growth will be visible (i.e. not obscured by stagnant revenue in legacy products).