Small-cap

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A company or stock with a small-cap market capitalization.

    "Now, before stirring small-caps into your investment cauldron, you must first thoroughly understand the ingredients and their effects."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Whose market capitalization is between $300 million to $2 billion. not-comparable

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of stocks of companies with a market capitalization of less than one billion dollars wordnet

Synonyms

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small-capitalisationsmall-capitalization

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"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."

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