uk stocks
The UK R&D efficiency screen returned 7.34% CAGR over 25 years. The FTSE 100 price index returned 1.23%. That is +6.12% annual excess, the strongest result across 11 global markets, with a max drawdown of -21.74% against the index's -38.07%. Returns in GBP. The FTSE 100 is price-return only.
india stocks
The R&D efficiency screen on NSE-only sits in cash for 56% of years. When invested it was volatile, with two spectacular years (2014 +59.81% against a Sensex up 8.14%, and 2023 +83.18% against 21.83%). The 25-year CAGR of 6.50% trails the Sensex's 12.06%. It doesn't beat the Indian market.
global stocks
We reran the R&D efficiency screen across 11 exchanges with local benchmarks. The UK beats the FTSE 100 price index by +6.12% annually, the strongest result globally. India underperforms the Sensex by 5.27pp. And two positive results turn out to rest on foreign companies' secondary listings.
small cap
Switzerland's small-cap growth screen returned 7.45% CAGR against an SMI that did 1.74%, the best up-down capture in our study. It averaged 11.4 holdings and two years supplied most of the excess.
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Sweden's small-cap growth screen returned 5.41% CAGR against an OMX Stockholm 30 that did 2.55%. Then 2021 gave back 27.7 points of relative performance in a single year.
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South African small-cap growth returned 9.57% CAGR over 25 years, the second-highest absolute return in our study. The excess was earned before 2010 and gave way to five straight losing years.
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25 years of screening turned $10,000 into $65,721. The S&P 500 turned it into $66,167. And a third of the portfolio slots went to closed-end funds the screen mistook for growth companies.
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We tested one small-cap growth strategy across 14 exchanges over 25 years, each against its own index. It beat 8 of them. The catch: the biggest excess returns sit on top of indices that returned under 3% a year.
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Canadian small-cap growth returned 8.24% CAGR over 25 years against a TSX Composite that did 3.95%. $10,000 became $72,383. Almost all of the edge was banked before 2010.
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German small-cap growth returned 6.68% CAGR against a DAX that did 5.04%, with 42% down capture. Every point of the edge was earned before 2018.
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Thailand's small-cap growth screen returned 2.80% CAGR against a SET Index that did 5.13%, with 134% down capture and a -61% drawdown. Emerging market status is not a guarantee.
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Taiwan's small-cap growth screen returned 3.94% CAGR against a TAIEX that did 4.09%. With 95% up capture and 90% down capture, it tracked the index instead of beating it.