{"id":2112783,"date":"2019-09-16T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T06:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=2112783"},"modified":"2019-09-16T11:33:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T06:03:30","slug":"mid-caps-vs-large-caps-a-false-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2019\/09\/16\/mid-caps-vs-large-caps-a-false-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-caps vs. Large-caps &#8211; A false choice?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is generally believed that mid-caps give better returns than large-caps. But if you compare their historical returns, the difference is minuscule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/midcaps-vs-largecaps-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2112793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/midcaps-vs-largecaps-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/midcaps-vs-largecaps-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/midcaps-vs-largecaps-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/midcaps-vs-largecaps-250x125.png 250w, https:\/\/portalvhds29z8xdrqhczq.blob.core.windows.net\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/midcaps-vs-largecaps.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Is the pain worth the gain?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But mid-caps have often inflicted a lot of pain on their investors &#8211; spending most of their time in drawdowns. There is no diversification benefit because both of them play in the same circus. If you are a buy-and-holder, why bother with mid-caps at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Check out the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"notebook  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stockviz\/plutons\/blob\/master\/benchmarking.ipynb\" target=\"_blank\">notebook <\/a>on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"pluto (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/pluto.studio\" target=\"_blank\">pluto<\/a>. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/lab.pluto.studio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"play (opens in a new tab)\">play<\/a> around with it once you login with your github account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a buy-and-holder, why bother with mid-caps at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2112793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3471],"tags":[3391],"class_list":["post-2112783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing-insight","tag-nifty","entry","has-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2112793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}