Niche growth companies may offer answers to US stock market problems

In the current economic setting, investing in US stocks is a perilous business. Earnings shortfalls ...

In the current economic setting, investing in US stocks is a perilous business. Earnings shortfalls have been widespread and many companies have seen their share prices marked down severely as a result. Our attempts to navigate through this storm have focused on identifying what we refer to as 'niche growth companies' - those that have the ability to consistently increase sales and earnings regardless of expansion or contraction by the overall economy. Such companies usually have a number of common characteristics, the most important being the ability to offer customers a set of unique ...