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# MicroCap Statistics: By the Numbers
- URL: https://microcapclub.com/microcap-statistics-numbers/
- Published: 2013-11-12T07:32:00.000Z
- Updated: 2013-11-12T07:32:00.000Z
- Author: Ian Cassel

Microcap companies make up half of all publicly traded companies on all the US exchanges, including the OTC Markets and OTCBB. Microcaps have always been under appreciated by a bulk of investors and especially the financial press. Even most professional investors I talk to don’t realize the size and scope of the microcap space or the value that can be found in it. Here are a few statistics that help illustrate this:

There are currently 18,712 publicly traded companies on all US Exchanges (including OTCM/OTCBB)

- 45% (8,464) are profitable LTM
- 49.7% (9,315) are microcaps (sub $300m market cap)  
  - 24% of all microcaps are profitable
- 38% (7,120) are nanocaps (sub $75m market cap)  
  - 16% of all nanocaps are profitable

Not surprisingly, a greater proportion of microcaps are not profitable when compared to other market capitalizations…

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Another way to look at it…

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But you will certainly find more value in microcaps than anywhere else, of the 8,464 profitable companies…

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One of the key things professional microcap investors look for are companies with good share structures…of the 2,211 profitable microcaps that exist a majority of them have less than 25m shares outstanding..

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*Source: Statistics from S&P Capital IQ*

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