Small- and mid-cap stocks are expected to outperform mega-cap stocks this year, driven by a leadership shift and profit recovery, according to Jill Carey Hall, head of U.S. Small and Mid Cap Strategy ...

Small caps have been plagued by negative earnings growth for years. That has led to significant underperformance relative to the S&P 500. S&P 600 earnings growth finally turned positive in 2025 and is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Small-cap ETFs aren't interchangeable. The index they track can make a huge difference in the type of portfolio you're buying. There's a big difference between the Russell 2000 and S&P 600 indexes. It ...

After several years of market leadership by speculative growth stocks, early signals suggest the balance may be shifting within small-cap equities. Growth investing maintained an unusually persistent ...

The Russell 2000 has fallen more than 10% off its recent high, becoming the first of the major U.S. benchmarks to fall into correction territory this year. A correction is defined as a decline of more ...

Small caps are in the lead again. The small-cap-tracking Russell 2000 index has been outperforming the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite as investors spent the beginning of ...

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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 ...

Market leadership isn’t defined by up days alone. Even on a volatile down day like Tuesday, the broader selloff didn’t stop investors’ rotation away from megacap technology stocks. If anything, it ...