With an aging population, glaucoma (which can cause severe visual impairment) has been on the rise. With INTT stock growth of 89% so far this year, the company’s market cap now stands at $123.25 million. In Q2, the company reported revenue exceeded its guidance, increasing 64% year-over-year. The growing demand can be seen in inTEST’s latest quarterly earnings. Its solutions are used in the development, qualifying and final testing of integrated circuits and wafers. That’s right - a company that stands to benefit as semiconductor makers build out capacity in response to the ongoing global chip shortage. New Jersey-based inTEST sells precision-engineered technology used by manufacturers in a wide range of industries including automotive, aerospace and semiconductor manufacturing. Micro-cap stocks don’t rate better in Portfolio Grader than the “A” total grade earned by FAT stock. That gives the company a market capitalization of $149.5 million. The market has reacted positively to FAT Brands’ aggressive expansion with FAT stock up 140% so far in 2021. 1, FAT Brands’ corporate-owned and franchised locations worldwide total over 2,100 with annual sales of approximately $1.8 billion. It acquired Global Franchise Group for $442.5 million, announced a 200 unit expansion into the Middle East, and spent $300 million to buy the Twin Peaks restaurant chain.īesides Twin Peaks, the fast food chains and food court outlets under the FAT Brands label now includes well-known names such as Fatburger, Johnny Rockets, Great American Cookies, Marble Slab Creamery, Hot Dog on a Stick, Buffalo’s Express, Round Table Pizza and Pretzelmaker.Īs of Oct. The company has spent much of this year in expansion mode. The third pick among micro-cap stocks is a bet that the continued pandemic recovery is going to see more consumers heading to restaurants.įAT Brands owns a wide range of well-known casual and fast-food restaurants and it’s betting on a recovery in the sector. That’s the kind of growth story investors dream about.
Euroseas - which has been in the shipping business for over a century - is adding to its fleet to capitalize on the historic demand.Īt this point ESEA stock is up 531% for far in 2021, and a whopping 1,191% over the past 12 months. The snarled global supply chain has led to a seemingly bottomless demand for container ships. However, I don’t expect it to stay in this class for much longer. It still has the coveted triple-A rating, by the way.ĮSEA stock remains a micro-cap, with its current market capitalization of $247.7 million. Greece-based container shipping company Euroseas recently made it into my list of triple A-rated stocks to buy in October. ALOT stock has delivered a return of 54% so far in 2021 and the company currently has a market capitalization of $120.35 million. In its last quarter, AstroNova reported revenue up 8% year-over-year. We’ve been saying that printing is dead for the past several decades, But no-one seems to want to give up being able to hold a printed sheet that can be annotated, filed for reference, or folded up and carried in a pocket. This includes heavy-duty printers integrated into airplane cockpits to print weather maps and critical flight information, printing product labels, and industrial systems that measure and print real-time data.
They sound very different but ultimately they amount to printing information.
What does that mean, exactly? The company has three primary divisions: Aerospace, Product Identification and Test & Measurement. AstroNova is a data-visualization company.