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Transcat Inc. (TRNS) Performed Remarkably, Became Wasatch Global’s Top Q1 Contributor Wasatch Global Investors, an investment management firm, published its “Wasatch Micro Cap Fund” first quarter 2021 investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A return of 10.95% was recorded by the fund for the Q1 of 2021, trailing the benchmark, Russell Microcap Index, which rose 23.89% for the same period. You can view the fund’s top 5 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021. Wasatch Micro Cap, in its Q1 2021 investor letter, mentioned Transcat, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRNS), and ...

It's been difficult for actively managed U.S. and international-equity funds to beat their benchmarks. According to Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, only 48% of active U.S. stock funds survived and outperformed their average passive peer over the 12-month period ended June 2019, and only 23% of all active funds beat their passive benchmark over a 10-year period. As Morningstar director of global ETF research Ben Johnson notes in the report, foreign-stock and bond funds tend to have higher long-term success rates, while U.S. large-cap funds report the lowest success rates. To identify...