Unless they're in vogue sectors, most small caps continue to struggle to elicit the right kind of market sentiment.

For the best part of a year since Speculator analysed the earnings upside of Joyce Corporation the stock did nothing, despite that upside materialising in results. For those investors who remained patient, the health-care and foam products stock has suddenly started to deliver in the past few months though, surging from $1.50 to test $2.