In the eventful quarter that closed the books on 2025, the small-cap Russell 2000 and Russell Microcap Indexes were each in positive territory, while the micro-cap index led all the major domestic ...

Institutional Class shares of Columbia Small Cap Growth Fund returned 4.33% for Q4, outperforming its benchmark Russell 2000 ...

Small-cap stocks are on a tear: The Morningstar US Small Cap Index is outperforming both the Morningstar US Large Cap Index and the broad-based Morningstar US Market Index by a healthy margin over the ...

Mairs & Power, an investment advisor, released the fourth-quarter 2025 investor letter for the “Mairs & Power Small Cap Fund.

Mairs & Power, an investment advisor, released the fourth-quarter 2025 investor letter for the “Mairs & Power Small Cap Fund.

Many small-cap funds lagged their benchmarks by wide margins in 2025 while putting up respectable absolute returns. Strategies that eschew speculative small caps and focus on higher-quality companies, ...

In 2025, small-cap stocks underperformed. The Russell 2000 Index tracks the performance of 2,000 U.S. small-cap stocks, delivering a total return of around 13% in 2025. This was significantly below ...

ClearBridge Investments, an investment management company, released its “ClearBridge Small Cap Growth Strategy” Q4 2025 ...

At the beginning of 2025, I called the Vanguard Russell 2000 ETF one of the best investments for the year. It didn’t perform poorly by any means, but it underperformed the S&P 500. I still believe ...

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 ...

Despite a challenging 2025 with negative returns, small cap mutual funds saw renewed investor interest in February 2026 with ...

In this article I will be exploring two interesting companies that many investors might not have heard of yet. These remain ...