General Investing >> Analyst Interviews >> April 29, 2002
PETER G. MINTZ, co-Founder and Senior Analyst of Barrow Street Research,
has more than 15 years of experience as a Wall Street stock analyst.
Prior to Barrow Street, he served in various research capacities at
several prominent Wall Street companies. His first equity analyst
position was at Sherwood Capital, where he served initially as a Senior
Analyst and was then promoted to Assistant Director. After the Sherwood
Capital research and brokerage operations were broken apart in 1988, Mr.
Mintz served as the Research Director for one of the surviving
operations at F.N. Wolf. In 1989, Mr. Mintz joined Josephthal & Co.
(then Rosenkrantz Lyon & Ross) and stayed with that company through
1994. He then joined his former Director of Research at Sherwood, John
Attalienti, to form Barrow Street Research, one of the leading
independent investment research firms for micro-cap stocks. In 1996, Mr.
Mintz joined H.J. Meyers & Co. as a Senior Analyst and continued to
provide research coverage of companies in various industries, including
medical technology, gaming and entertainment, telecommunications, and
Internet services. In 1998, Mr. Mintz rejoined Barrow Street, and
founded his own firm, Fleetwood Research. Mr. Mintz holds and MBA in
Finance from the Bernard Baruch business school in New York City and a
BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Rochester,
in Rochester, New York. Profile
TWST: Does the rationale behind the better relative performance of smallcaps continue to be valid as you look at the current economic and market
environments? What are the attributes of small caps