Guides
What we have measured about small public companies.
Coverage, trading and ownership, from the public record. The service: microcap investor relations.
- Microcap analyst coverage 2026: how a small company gets an analyst82% of initiations were in an industry the analyst already covered, and 94% in the same sector.
- Why microcap stocks trade thin, and how to measure itTwo numbers matter: turnover, and days to turn the register. Both use the median, never the average.
- Who is most likely to buy a microcap nextA fund that owned the stock before and sold it was the strongest signal, worth about four times every other signal combined.
- Preparing for a microcap investor conferenceIn our own conference work, Form 13F data identified only about one counterparty in ten.
- How to switch investor relations firms: a checklist for small public companiesRead the engagement letter before anything else. Its term and notice clause decide when you can leave and what you owe on the way out.
- MZ Group alternatives for microcaps: what MZ offers and what else to considerMZ North America describes itself as a one-stop shop: investor relations and outreach, public relations, investor websites, newswire distribution, market intelligence, and IPO and SPAC advisory.
- Elevate IR alternatives: what Elevate offers and what else small companies considerElevate IR describes itself as a senior-led advisory team with a selective client roster, and says it retains 95% of its clients.
- How foreign companies listed in the US find US investors58% of small foreign listings we matched to 13F filings had no US stock-picking fund on 30 June 2026. For US companies under $500 million it was 20%, and the gap holds at every size.
- Hayden IR alternatives for microcaps: what Hayden offers and what else to considerHayden IR describes itself as an investor relations agency for small- and micro-cap public companies. It began as Hayden Communications in the late 1990s and lists Scottsdale, New York and Chicago.