Bridge City Capital Microcap
Objective: To outperform the Russell Microcap benchmark by 150 to 200 bps annualized, over a normal market cycle, gross of fees.
Our Microcap strategy (MC) is focused on investing in quality companies with market capitalizations comparable to the Russell Microcap Growth benchmark. This strategy uses the Bridge City investment process which looks for proven track records, strong financial characteristics, and above-average growth prospects at attractive valuations. We believe this quality-centric strategy will lead to strong relative returns over the long run.
Bridge City's investment process provides a disciplined framework to guide investment decisions. It helps us identify high-quality microcap companies by measuring and assigning numerical values to each company's qualitative characteristics, growth & profitability metrics, and financial strength. Valuation is assessed using internally developed earnings projections. Resulting scores help avoid story stocks with flawed fundamentals and gauge a company's relative attractiveness against its peers to identify the highest quality companies trading at attractive valuations.
Our MC strategy is long only. Portfolio construction aims to find high quality companies and to generate relative performance from stock selection by being fully invested in these companies early in their growth lifecycle.