General Investing >> Analyst Interviews >> April 29, 2002

Investing In Small-cap Stocks: Peter Mintz – Barrow Street Research

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 small

caps continue to be valid as you look at the current economic and market

environments? What are the attributes of small caps