Small-cap
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Small-cap is an adjective meaning (finance, of stocks) Whose market capitalization is between $300 million to $2 billion.
Meaning
(finance, of stocks) Whose market capitalization is between $300 million to $2 billion.
More Meanings
- A company or stock with a small-cap market capitalization.
Example Sentences
Now, before stirring small-caps into your investment cauldron, you must first thoroughly understand the ingredients and their effects.
All stocks, even the 500 largest, did pretty well–but on average small-cap stocks did better than big-cap stocks and value stocks beat growth stocks.
Word Forms
- small-caps
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include small scale, stocks, smallish, stockmarket, bluechip, securities.
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