Industry description
The investment seeks to maximize capital appreciation.
The fund uses a growth style of investment in equity securities, including common stocks and other equity securities of issuers. Under normal market conditions, it invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of borrowings for investment purposes) in the equity securities of U.S. micro-capitalization ("micro-cap") companies. For purposes of the fund, the investment adviser considers a company to be a micro-cap company if it is within the same market capitalization range at the time of investment as those included in the Russell Microcap® Growth Index.
Market Cap
The average market capitalization across the Driehaus Micro Cap Growth MF is 4.8B. The market cap for tickers in the group ranges from 1.23B to 11.2B. PCVX holds the highest valuation in this group at 11.2B. The lowest valued company is BLBD at 1.23B.
Volume
The average weekly volume growth across all stocks in the Driehaus Micro Cap Growth MF was 12%. For the same stocks of the MF, the average monthly volume growth was -50% and the average quarterly volume growth was 29%
Fundamental Analysis Ratings
The average fundamental analysis ratings, where 1 is best and 100 is worst, are as follows
Valuation Rating: 80
P/E Growth Rating: 50
Price Growth Rating: 44
SMR Rating: 68
Profit Risk Rating: 24
Seasonality Score: 31 (-100 ... +100)