MDB Announces 2011 "Sweet 16" IP Investors

Santa Monica, Ca, -March 24, 2011 - MDB Capital Group, LLC announces selections for the "Sweet 16" of IP Investors.

As the world of college basketball is now immersed in “March Madness” and the ongoing NCAA Tournament, MDB Capital would like to take some creative (yet statistical) license in presenting our 2011 “Sweet 16”, sixteen small-cap money managers with the highest portfolio concentration of companies with leading IP as measured by MDB’s PatentVest IP intelligence platform covering more than 4,000 U.S. listed public companies.  For more information on PatentVest, please refer to the MDB website:  www.mdb.com.

 Our selection of 2011’s “Sweet 16” was accomplished as follows:

  • We identified publicly reporting money management firms with ownership of at least three of MDB Capital’s 2011 “Best and Brightest” – 150 public companies which scored in the 90th percentile for IP leadership from over 1,500 small-cap companies.
  • The analysis included an evaluation of each money manager’s holdings utilizing the three PatentVest IP metrics used to define MDB’s 2011 “Best and Brightest” companies.  The metrics used were:  Tech Score (a measurement of IP Value), 3-year CAGR of Patent Application (a measurement of IP Growth) and Citation-Weighted PV Ratio (a measurement of IP Market Value). These metrics have shown the ability to identify leading IP and their linkage to business performance and outsized investment returns. The full definitions of these metrics can be found at the end of this report.

  • The final seedings for this year’s “Sweet 16” were then determined by weighting the three PatentVest IP metrics and ranking the money managers based on the total dollar value of their “Best & Brightest” holdings as a percentage of their overall portfolio. In addition to the “Sweet 16”, the top sixteen money managers for each of the three PatentVest IP metrics have been ranked as well. 
     

Click Here for the Sweet 16 List of Investors.

 

(For more details on the Bright Lights Conference or our “Sweet 16” selection metrics, email research@mdb.com or visit http://www.mdb.com/patentvest-metrics.html)

MDB Capital Group LLC is an institutional research and investment banking firm that focuses exclusively on companies that possess market changing, disruptive intellectual property. Member FINRA / SIPC.