The strategy seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation.
Strategy Description
The strategy blends value-oriented, improving ROIC companies with growth-oriented, high ROIC companies. The strategy targets companies under $15 billion in market cap, typically holds between 70 to 85 companies, is well-diversified across sectors, and generates moderate turnover. We integrate Environmental, Social and Governance factors into our fundamental research process.
Approach
- Return On Invested Capital (ROIC) Focus
Takes a blended approach by focusing on high ROIC companies within the top two quintiles in the Russell 2500® Index and improving ROIC companies that have catalysts to improve the return level of the business. High and improving ROIC companies have outperformed the index over the long term.1
- Niche Markets with Defendable Competitive Advantages
Focuses on companies that target smaller overall markets where they can achieve high market share among a smaller competitive field. Seeks competitive advantages in the form of brands, data, economies of scale, people, patents, specialized processes, or regulations.
- Identifying Strong Management Teams
Seeks companies with management teams that are focused on sustainable and/or improving ROIC. Our proprietary ROIC dashboard helps assess a management team's impact on the business and opportunities for ROIC improvement beyond looking at just the income statement.
- Assessing an Attractive Risk/Reward Ratio
Seeks a 3:1 upside-to-downside (reward-to-risk) ratio at the initiation of a position. The upside and downside for each stock is arrived at by performing various scenario and sensitivity analyses. After a position is initiated, the ratio is continually monitored and updated.
1Source: Furey Research Partners, FactSet. Data as of 03.31.22.
Small Cap Team
Equity Trading
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Investment Vehicles
- Separate Account
- CIT
SMID Cap Equity separate accounts and CITs
- Factsheet
Recognition
SMID 5 Stars, Small-Mid Core Universe
SMID 6 Stars, Small-Mid Core Universe
SMID 6 Stars Small-Mid Cap Universe
SMID Manager of the Decade Small-Mid Core Universe
On 2/21/25 SBH SMID Cap strategy was awarded the Zephyr PSN Top Guns Manager of the Decade, 5- and 6-Star Category for the 3-month period ending 03/31/25. You can find more information about the PSN Top Guns Award . CI Segall Bryant & Hamill did not pay to participate in the PSN Top Guns Awards.
PSN Top Guns Award, 5 Star Category Criteria (Small-Mid Core Universe): The peer groups were created using the information collected through the PSN investment manager questionnaire and uses only gross of fee returns. PSN Top Guns investment managers must claim that they are GIPs compliant. Products must have an R-Squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark for the recent five year period. Moreover, products must have returns greater than the style benchmark for the three latest three-year rolling periods. Products are then selected which have a standard deviation for the five year period equal or less than the median standard deviation for the peer group. The top ten returns for the latest three-year period then become the TOP GUNS.
PSN Top Guns Award, 6 Star Category Criteria (Small-Mid Core Universe): The peer groups were created using the information collected through the PSN investment manager questionnaire and uses only gross of fee returns. PSN Top Guns investment managers must claim that they are GIPS compliant. Products must have an R-squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark for the recent 5-year period. Moreover, products must have returns greater than the style benchmark for the 3 latest 3-year rolling periods. Products are then selected which have a standard deviation for the 5-year period equal or less than the median standard deviation for the peer group. The top 10 information ratios for the latest 5-year period then become the TOP GUNS.
Top Guns Manager of The Decade Criteria: The PSN universes were created using the information collected through the PSN investment manager questionnaire and use only gross of fee returns. PSN Top Guns investment managers must claim that they are GIPs compliant. Mutual fund and commingled fund products are not included in the universe. Products must have an r-squared of 0.80 or greater relative to the style benchmark for the latest ten year period. Moreover, products must have returns greater than the style benchmark for the latest ten-year period and also standard deviation less than the style benchmark for the latest ten-year period. At this point, the top ten performers for the latest ten-year period become the PSN Top Guns Manager of the Decade.
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