100 Best Small Cap Stocks To Place Your Money

Small cap stocks with a strong growth and best dividends to buy, originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Everybody loves growth. If you own an investment and it starts to grow by double-digit rates over a few years, when the stock price explode and you feel like a bird in heaven. I felt a few times like this. But it is also necessary that you sell partly your position over the time. I personally reduce my stocks positions when they have doubled or more. Certainly you can’t get very rich with this rule but you hedge your stock gains and believe me by selling stocks with gains, nobody become poor.

I recently viewed a nice list at Forbes. The list was a research result of the 100 best small cap growth stocks in America. Stocks from the table are public and tradeable in America. They all have a total sales volume below the USD 1 billion mark and fantastic years of recent growth. As you can see at the list, the GDP growth is America is still weak but out there are still investment opportunities to discover.

I discovered the ten best dividend stocks from the small cap growth picks. I needed to screen more than 50 companies in order to find ten stocks with positive dividend payments. Most of the small cap growth stocks don’t pay dividends. But the debt situation is very comfortable. Most of them are free of debt and have bigger cash amounts to their balance sheets in order to finance future growth. The average stock grew in sales by 19 percent yearly. Earnings followd by 31 percent growth yearly and the average return on equity amounted to 20 percent. See the full list of the 100 best small cap growth stocks at the end of this post.

Here are my favorite stocks:

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Strayer Education (NASDAQ:STRA) has a market capitalization of $561.72 million. The company employs 2,140 people, generates revenue of $627.43 million and has a net income of $106.04 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $200.67 million. The EBITDA margin is 31.98 percent (the operating margin is 28.55 percent and the net profit margin 16.90 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 50.84 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 277.82 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 97.16 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $6.60. Last fiscal year, the company paid $4.00 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 7.17, the P/S ratio is 0.90 and the P/B ratio is finally 13.19. The dividend yield amounts to 8.45 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.73.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Strayer Education... (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Strayer Education... (STRA) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Strayer Education... (NASDAQ: STRA) (Click to enlarge)

Quality Systems (NASDAQ:QSII) has a market capitalization of $1.08 billion. The company employs 1,908 people, generates revenue of $429.84 million and has a net income of $75.66 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $134.15 million. The EBITDA margin is 31.21 percent (the operating margin is 27.03 percent and the net profit margin 17.60 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 0.00 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 29.11 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.14. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.70 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.94, the P/S ratio is 2.50 and the P/B ratio is finally 3.63. The dividend yield amounts to 3.86 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.70.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Quality Systems, ... (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Quality Systems, ... (QSII) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Quality Systems, ... (NASDAQ: QSII) (Click to enlarge)

FutureFuel (NYSE:FF) has a market capitalization of $485.17 million. The company employs 500 people, generates revenue of $309.88 million and has a net income of $34.51 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $60.81 million. The EBITDA margin is 19.62 percent (the operating margin is 16.66 percent and the net profit margin 11.14 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 0.00 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 12.77 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.93. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.30 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.56, the P/S ratio is 1.57 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.68. The dividend yield amounts to 3.41 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.54.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of FutureFuel Corp. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of FutureFuel Corp. (FF) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of FutureFuel Corp. (NYSE: FF) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table of the ten best yielding small cap growth stocks. The average P/E ratio amounts to 22.64 and forward P/E ratio is 17.02. The dividend yield has a value of 2.68 percent. Price to book ratio is 5.03 and price to sales ratio 4.42. The operating margin amounts to 29.98 percent. The average stock has a debt to equity ratio of 0.17.

Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM):

Best Growing Small Cap Dividend Stocks (Click to enlarge)

Here is the full list:

Rank	Company	Sales	Sales Growth	Earnings per Share Growth	Return on Equity
1	SolarWinds	$233 M	38%	36%	54%
2	Grand Canyon Education	$458 M	47%	236%	27%
3	American Public Education	$291 M	44%	54%	35%
4	Sturm, Ruger	$406 M	16%	99%	24%
5	Metropolitan Health Networks	$656 M	14%	113%	30%
6	IEC Electronics	$143 M	40%	79%	39%
7	Questcor Pharmaceuticals	$344 M	61%	20%	54%
8	Cirrus Logic	$434 M	21%	64%	20%
9	Rue21	$822 M	28%	38%	55%
10	Medifast	$328 M	36%	41%	23%
11	IPG Photonics	$514 M	23%	36%	17%
12	United Therapeutics	$827 M	37%	30%	8%
13	Air Methods	$785 M	14%	21%	18%
14	Allegiant Travel	$843 M	25%	34%	20%
15	Syntel	$690 M	18%	20%	34%
16	FleetCor Technologies	$592 M	21%	21%	21%
17	Bio-Reference Laboratories	$637 M	23%	25%	19%
18	Buffalo Wild Wings	$908 M	23%	24%	16%
19	Strayer Education	$587 M	21%	23%	61%
20	Wright Express	$585 M	7%	15%	30%
21	Lumber Liquidators	$745 M	15%	14%	18%
22	FutureFuel	$369 M	48%	48%	10%
23	Portfolio Recovery Associates	$520 M	19%	15%	18%
24	DXP Enterprises	$940 M	19%	9%	10%
25	Middleby	$951 M	15%	12%	26%
26	Boston Beer	$538 M	12%	35%	22%
27	HealthStream	$92 M	19%	20%	13%
28	HMS Holdings	$419 M	31%	47%	14%
29	Gordmans Stores	$579 M	6%	66%	47%
30	Ancestry.com	$435 M	21%	57%	10%
31	NIC	$192 M	22%	15%	24%
32	Dorman Products	$552 M	12%	32%	14%
33	Myriad Genetics	$496 M	26%	17%	22%
34	Key Tronic	$346 M	10%	19%	11%
35	Liquidity Services	$432 M	15%	15%	12%
36	Tyler Technologies	$333 M	10%	21%	19%
37	ExlService Holdings	$415 M	26%	28%	12%
38	EDAC Technologies	$95 M	17%	4%	18%
39	CommVault Systems	$426 M	20%	14%	15%
40	America's Car-mart	$395 M	12%	47%	13%
41	OpenTable	$150 M	37%	65%	11%
42	Ansys	$752 M	19%	45%	11%
43	Quality Systems	$448 M	23%	15%	32%
44	Manitex International	$169 M	16%	17%	7%
45	Volterra Semiconductor	$166 M	18%	63%	15%
46	NetScout Systems	$322 M	23%	29%	8%
47	Royal Gold	$263 M	43%	15%	5%
48	Dolby Laboratories	$945 M	20%	27%	20%
49	Mesa Laboratories	$41 M	18%	12%	19%
50	Hibbett Sports	$774 M	8%	14%	24%
51	Atwood Oceanics	$712 M	18%	24%	24%
52	Riverbed Technology	$773 M	46%	46%	6%
53	FactSet Research Systems	$806 M	12%	16%	30%
54	Keynote Systems	$121 M	11%	112%	6%
55	OSI Systems	$793 M	6%	36%	8%
56	Collectors Universe	$48 M	6%	63%	17%
57	Tessco Technologies	$762 M	7%	24%	13%
58	GP Strategies	$379 M	9%	16%	9%
59	FEI	$857 M	9%	29%	9%
60	U.S. Physical Therapy	$247 M	11%	20%	16%
61	Cantel Medical	$374 M	10%	27%	8%
62	AZZ	$521 M	10%	10%	19%
63	Landauer	$146 M	9%	5%	33%
64	CPI Aerostructures	$81 M	28%	7%	8%
65	Carbo Ceramics	$666 M	16%	20%	16%
66	SHFL Entertainment	$251 M	6%	20%	11%
67	Quaker Chemical	$710 M	5%	24%	15%
68	Raven Industries	$409 M	11%	14%	27%
69	Impax Laboratories	$573 M	36%	11%	44%
70	Orchids Paper Products	$103 M	9%	44%	14%
71	Balchem	$299 M	20%	24%	19%
72	LSB Industries	$792 M	7%	19%	34%
73	True Religion Apparel	$439 M	25%	14%	27%
74	Altra Holdings	$730 M	4%	29%	10%
75	Ameresco	$727 M	20%	27%	19%
76	SS&C Technologies	$405 M	11%	90%	3%
77	Copart	$924 M	10%	10%	17%
78	Great Northern Iron Ore	$29 M	8%	7%	100%
79	j2 Global Communications	$343 M	10%	16%	24%
80	B&G Foods	$589 M	5%	18%	13%
81	NeuStar	$733 M	11%	9%	18%
82	Inventure Foods	$177 M	17%	27%	7%
83	Nathan's Famous	$68 M	9%	4%	12%
84	Synaptics	$548 M	16%	27%	22%
85	Hawkins	$345 M	17%	24%	17%
86	Astronics	$248 M	13%	13%	19%
87	Thoratec	$457 M	16%	78%	7%
88	Team	$644 M	10%	9%	15%
89	Ensign Group	$689 M	17%	12%	20%
90	Lindsay	$540 M	13%	17%	14%
91	Calavo Growers	$557 M	12%	20%	15%
92	iRobot	$460 M	18%	59%	10%
93	Hittite Microwave	$257 M	15%	14%	23%
94	Rick's Cabaret International	$89 M	28%	13%	8%
95	KMG Chemicals	$279 M	32%	11%	14%
96	Luminex	$190 M	27%	46%	3%
97	Virtusa	$293 M	15%	11%	10%
98	Masimo	$458 M	15%	10%	27%
99	Hanger	$953 M	9%	18%	10%
100	Exponent	$280 M	9%	19%	17%

Average			19%	31%	20%

Related stock ticker symbols:

RGR, QCOR, SYNT, STRA, FF, QSII, RGLD, MLAB, FDS, KEYN

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