Investing in small caps seems like a risky affair. However, do your homework and it can be highly rewarding. In this two part series, we focus on highlighting some of the small cap gems that have remained elusive to the market. These small cap gems have the potential to help your investment portfolio returns turn up a notch. Investors Takeaway: 4 Exciting Small Caps That Are Set For A Year Of Growth  Jumbo Group With earnings bottoming out in FY18, CIMB is confident that Jumbo Group (Jumbo) will grow ahead on stronger profit contributions from its Singapore F&B outlet and more overseas franchised outlets. Four new franchised Jumbo seafood outlets were added in four different cities – Taipei, Taichung, Fuzhou and Bangkok – over the past three quarters. There are now a total of 17

Banyan Tree Holdings Price – $0.58 Target – $0.76 Banyan Tree Holdings (BTH) saw a recovery in its fee-based segment revenue with hotel/fund/club management and spa/gallery operations enjoying positive growth in 4Q18 after registering close to 20% declines each a year ago. Revenue from BTH’s property sales segment also jumped 61% in 4Q18 driven by higher handover of units at Cassia Phuket, Laguna Park townhomes/villas, Laguna Village residences and Banyan Tree Grand Residences. Meanwhile, revenue from the group’s Hotel investments dipped 13% as a result of ongoing renovations at Banyan Tree Phuket and underperformance from Angsana Laguna Phuket as well as deconsolidation effect following the disposal of Seychelles assets portfolio. BTH managed to secure 28 new management contracts

Japfa Ltd (SGX: UD2), Singapore Post Limited (SGX: S08) and Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (SGX: S63) bought back their shares for the week.