Article: Mid-caps look good to pros Overvalued blue chips make midsize companies appear attractive

Although big company indexes keep hitting new highs, some local investment professionals are turning to stocks of midsize companies. "From a fundamental standpoint, secondaries really look very attractive on any type of valuation measure, compared to stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index," said R. Thomas Dempsey, principal at Morgan Dempsey Capital Management LLC in Mequon.

It's not that money isn't flowing into blue chips. Many private clients are firing money managers who buy stocks of midsize and small companies, said John C. Thompson, research analyst and portfolio manager at Thompson Plumb & Associates Inc. in Madison. That means more money is going into indexing and big-company ...

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