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Historically, bottom fishing has not been a successful strategy for tech investors.  However, the extreme nature of the current market calls this truism into question.  Today, nearly 20% of all technology companies with market cap of more than $3B trade

1Q11 was an odd quarter for large cap TMT – growth in sales and earnings were well above historical norms, while the distribution of surprises was unusually poor.  Against this, valuations remain near historic lows.  Parsing out the quarterly results,

In our piece “Small Cap TMT: The Idiosyncratic Method”, we made a case that a thematic approach to sector investing was particularly effective for small cap stocks, vs. traditional value or growth styles.  While stock selection based on association with

Consumer media, communications and commerce applications are being subsumed by the Internet. The simultaneous rise of smart devices, connected home electronics, fast wireless networks, content delivery networks and compelling cloud-based applications is fomenting a revolution in consumer internet use.  No

Recent world events have raised the importance of IT in energy policy. Even as rebellion in the middle east is reaffirming the precariousness of dependence on oil beyond ecological concerns, the Fukushima reactor crisis has reinvigorated opposition to nuclear power.