After years of being the market’s forgotten children, small-cap stocks are back in the spotlight in 2025. But are they ...

Its expense ratio (annual fee) of 0.25% is modest, too, for an actively managed fund, meaning you'll pay just $25 per year for each $10,000 you have invested in it. Here's how the ETF has performed in ...

Despite lagging the broader market, U.S. small caps now trade at a 21.8% valuation discount to large caps, levels last seen before major relative rallies in the 1970s and early 2000s. With rate cuts, ...

Small-cap stocks have underperformed their large-cap counterparts for years. The valuation gap between small caps and large caps is the widest it’s been since the 1990s. A falling-rate environment ...

It’s a brutal time in small-cap land even as the broader stock market hits new records. Steven Goldstein is based in London and responsible for MarketWatch's coverage of financial markets in Europe, ...

Small cap stocks lost almost a third of their value since Liberation Day, now they have gained back some of those losses, and Jefferies analysts believe there are several catalysts for them to sustain ...

Small-cap underperformance has historical precedent — but cycles turn. We’re in the 12th year of a small-cap lagging cycle, longer than average. Historical data suggests a reversal is near. Higher ...

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Over the past month, small cap stocks have gone from out-of-favor to market leaders. Expected rate cuts are at the center of the move, but there's a lot more to it than that. Even small cap stocks in ...

The small-cap rally just got real. The Russell 2000, America's small-cap benchmark as tracked by the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE:IWM), just smashed through old records, hitting 2,470 points on ...