Small-caps are showing signs of life. Earnings growth is accelerating, and they're outperforming large-caps. Given this improved quality and inherent value, small-caps could be in for an extended ...

A flood of foreign money into Brazil’s biggest companies in the first quarter has left small caps trading at their cheapest versus larger peers in over six years, with some investors saying the shift ...

The Russell 2000 has entered correction territory, dropping more than 10% from January highs amid surging oil prices linked to the Iran conflict. Small-cap stocks, heavily exposed to domestic economic ...

Small-cap funds are benefiting because technology stocks represent far less exposure in their portfolios than in mega-cap benchmarks, combined with historically cheap valuations relative to the S&P ...

The S&P 500 is down on the year through late March, but surprisingly, small caps are not. This divergence, while not dramatic in size, reflects something more meaningful happening underneath the ...

Zachary Evens: Small-cap stocks have spent the last few years in the market’s shadow, but 2026 could shape up to be a different story. With interest rates falling, economic growth broadening, and ...

Vanguard Small-Cap ETF charges half the expense ratio of iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF, but both are extremely low-cost. IJR is slightly more concentrated and tilts more toward financials, while VB ...

The small-cap Russell 2000 has been on fire over the past three months. As of one week ago, the index was dramatically outperforming the other major U.S. indexes year to date. But as of Monday, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brett uses “second-level thinking” to find dividend stocks to buy. Late in 2025, I wrote about a “small-cap reawakening”—a bullish ...

The adage that “elephants don’t gallop” – as the late investor Jim Slater put it – has become accepted wisdom. Yet for many years, large-cap stocks have comfortably outstripped small-cap stocks. The ...

Wall Street has delivered a moderate performance so far this year (as of Feb. 6, 2026). The S&P 500 has gained 1.1%, the Dow Jones has added 3.6%, and the Nasdaq Composite has lost 0.9%. However, the ...