Late in the 2007 season, the Baltimore Orioles suffered one of the most lopsided defeats in the history of Major League Baseball, a 30-3 trouncing by the Texas Rangers. The 30 runs scored by the Rangers set the American League record and were the most runs scored in a game in the past 110 years in professional baseball. When asked how to handle such a demoralizing defeat, O’s manager Dave Trembley replied, "You have a real short memory and you let it go."

The SmallCap Informer focuses on small company stocks, this much is true. However, the definition of “small” is not as easily determined as it might at first appear. There are a number of methods that are used by various data providers, educational organizations, and market indexes to identify small-cap stocks, and just as many different actual definitions.

In its annual update of the Investor Advisory Service stock newsletter, the Hulbert Financial Digest has concluded that the stocks recommended in IAS have outperformed the overall market on average in every tracking period since 1996.

Navigator Holdings (NVGS) is the owner and operator of the world's largest fleet of handysize liquefied gas carriers and provides international and regional seaborne transportation of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), petrochemical gases, and ammonia for energy companies, industrial users, and commodity traders. We first profiled the company in the July 2014 issue of the SmallCap Informer when the stock was selling at $29.26. The current P/E ratio at the time was 20.0 based on TTM EPS of $1.40. Following is our current outlook on the stock.

If you don’t understand what the Greek government is doing, you aren’t the only one—the Greek government doesn’t seem to know either. And China’s stock market has been on a roller coaster over the past year. How does the turmoil affect U.S. investors?

Writing for MarketWatch.com, Mark Hulbert highilights "10 investment newsletters to read besides Buffett’s," including the Investor Advisory Service.

One year ago in our top-ranked IAS newsletter, we profiled Praxair (PX), the industrial gas manufacturer. How has the company and its stock performed in the year since?

Utilities and basic materials were last month’s weakest sectors according to FINVIZ.com, down 4% and 6% respectively. So far in 2015, the market’s strongest sector is healthcare, up 12%. Utilities are the year’s weakest, down 8%. What does this mean for the markets?

One year ago in IAS, we profiled CarMax (KMX), the used car seller. How has the company and its stock performed in the year since?

The June 2015 edition of the SmallCap Informer has just been published. In it, we introduce a stock from a sector that we haven’t covered previously, real estate. Our pick is a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), a type of investment security that can provide important diversification elements and other advantages for the portfolios of many investors.

Before you invest in any growth-oriented equity, you should understand where that business is in the spectrum of the typical company life cycle. This knowledge is often more useful with smaller or “emerging” businesses that don’t have as extensive a track record as their more established brethren.