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The benchmark small-cap stock index, the Russell 2000, climbed 8.9% during the third quarter. That outpaced the large-cap S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) return of 5.5%.
But judging from the many other small-cap inflows outside of the IWM ETF, there’s still plenty of optimism out there. Julie Hyman is the co-anchor of Yahoo Finance Live, weekdays 9 a.m.-11 a.m. ET .
The index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises the common stocks of 600 small-cap, mostly American, companies. Although called the S&P 600, the index contains 602 stocks because it includes two share classes of stock from 2 of its component companies.
Small-cap stocks are trading for their lowest price-to-book valuation relative to their large-cap counterparts in more than 25 years. The average stock in the S&P 500 trades for 4.7 times book ...
Small-cap stocks have roared back to life. After three years of lagging behind larger peers, the Russell 2000 index has surged 10.6% in November as of this writing, reflecting renewed interest in ...
In the United States, a small cap company is a company whose market capitalization (shares x value of each share) is considered small, from $250 million to $2 billion. Market caps terms may be different outside the United States.
The Russell 2000 is by far the most common benchmark for mutual funds that identify themselves as "small-cap", while the S&P 500 index is used primarily for large capitalization stocks. It is the most widely quoted measure of the overall performance of small-cap to mid-cap company shares.
A small-cap ETF is an exchange-traded fund that invests in the market’s smallest companies through what are called small-capitalization, or small-cap, stocks. Small-cap ETFs give you an easy way ...