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Article: Mid-caps look good to pros Overvalued blue chips make midsize companies appear attractive
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 21, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright 1998 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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 ...