ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. 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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include small scale, stocks, smallish, stockmarket, bluechip, securities.

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