Funds target 'unknown' stocks as Wall Street cuts analyst jobs
August 07, 2017 at 12:52 PM EDT
NEW YORK, Aug 7 (Reuters) - With a nearly 30-percent gain in 2017, shares of industrial products maker Handy & Harman Ltd are outpacing hot stocks like Google-parent Alphabet Inc and Visa Inc. Yet few on Wall Street have ever heard of the $412-million market-cap company, in large part because no sell-side research analysts publish any estimates of its earnings.
