The weekly 4 Stocks This Week column on DollarsAndSense was started in 2017 with a simple objective was simple: to provide a convenient read each week for busy investors to stay updated with what is happening on the Singapore Exchange. 4 Stock This Week is not a recommendation from us to buy or sell any of the stocks that wke feature. Its purpose is to highlight interesting stocks that investors should be aware of, rather than to analyse these stocks. For this week’s edition, instead of the usual coverage of four stocks, we’ll do a year in review of the other 51 instalments of 4 Stocks This Week that our team has written in 2019. Over the past year (51 weeks), we’ve covered 123 SGX-listed stocks, 4 ETFs and 8 Daily Leverage Certificates. The most covered stock was Sas

Small-cap stocks generally refer to companies with a relatively small market value of about $300 million to $1 billion. They may not be as well-known but offer great growth potential that comes with much higher returns. This week, we take a look at the FTSE ST Small Cap Index. It’s an index that represents the performance of small-cap companies that pass size, free float and liquidity screens. These companies also trade on the SFX Mainboard. The Index comprises of 49 constituents –19 Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and 30 companies. They make up a combined market cap of about S$40 billion. The 2019 year-to-date (YTD) figures revealed that the FTSE ST Small Cap Index generated a total return of 13.3%, outperforming the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) which stood at 8.9%. Letâ€