lol - I dont play the 5-10 / share game. I would rather own 1 share of a good company than 10 or 100 shares of a bad one.
If I were, however, to look at small caps, and not buy a sector fund (which, frankly, is how I handle small caps in my portfolio) - I would study up on which biotech drug companies have something promising, and buy a few thousand dollars worth of the top 5 - but not after a TON of painstaking research.
Never, ever, ever, buy a stock because of its nominal price. Buy a stock based on PE (price to earnings) relative to value and growth rate. Figure out how much you want to invest (never more than 2% of your portfolio in any one name), divide that number by the share price, and buy that many shares. If that means you are buying 1 share of GOOG at $450, or 100 shares of DICKWAD at $4.50, it means the same thing - if you have done the research.
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