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<strong>Impact</strong> Investments:<br />

An emerging asset class<br />

Global Research<br />

29 November 2010<br />

not something that financial analysts are called upon to estimate and there is no<br />

established methodology or rules for doing so. In order to make a reasonable estimate<br />

we took a sample of global small cap equities. Our sample consisted of almost 6,000<br />

non financial companies with Market Caps between $100m and $1bn. We also<br />

excluded any companies with sales of less than $10m. The results are shown by<br />

region in Table 32. While there is obviously dispersion and the ratio is driven by,<br />

among other factors, the capital intensity of the business we found the average Sales<br />

to Invested Capital ratio to be 99.7% and hence have used a 1 to 1 ratio in all our<br />

sizing studies.<br />

Table 32: Small caps by region (market cap $100m–1bn)<br />

Region<br />

Sales/Invested Capital<br />

Europe 95.7%<br />

US 114.8%<br />

Asia (ex Japan) 86.9%<br />

Japan 157.6%<br />

LatAm 77.9%<br />

Global 99.7%<br />

Source: J.P. Morgan<br />

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