Sidoti’s September Small-Cap Virtual Conference runs September 23 and 24, entirely online, starting at 8:30 a.m. the first day and wrapping up by 5 p.m. the second. Gibraltar Industries is among the companies confirmed to present at this edition.
Sidoti runs these virtual conferences a few times a year as a way for small and micro-cap public companies to meet with institutional and individual investors without the cost and logistics of a physical event. That format matters more for smaller companies than it might seem, since many small-cap firms get squeezed out of the bigger, higher-profile investor conferences that tend to reserve limited speaking slots for larger, more liquid names.
Company presentations run alongside one-on-one meeting slots, which are booked through the conference’s own scheduling system rather than arranged informally on the sidelines the way they might be at an in-person event. That structure gives investors a more predictable way to get facetime with management teams across a large number of companies in a short window, and gives presenting companies a clearer sense of who actually showed up interested in their stock.
The virtual format has become a fixture on the small-cap investor relations calendar over the past several years, since it lowers the bar for companies that might not otherwise get a slot at the bigger sell-side and buy-side conferences that dominate the fall investor conference season.