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small-cap

small-cap

4 7.0
A company or stock with a small market value, often under one billion dollars
  • adjective
  • /smɔl-kæp/
  • Specialized
translation icon : de pequeña capitalización
  • Many investors prefer small-cap stocks as they tend to outperform larger companies during market recoveries.
  • small-cap stock
  • small-cap fund
  • small-cap growth

Today's late stage private companies have basically taken the place of small, the small cap market, the small cap public market.

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Examples

  • Small-cap stocks with low trading quality, e.g., little liquidity, are on top of the overbought chart today.

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  • The risky parts of the market, like small-cap equity and emerging markets, make up the satellite portion of the portfolio.

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  • The advantage of a small cap is higher risk, but as Robert said, a greater chance for growth.

  • That is an index of a bunch of small cap stocks.

  • Let's own small cap stocks which have those characteristics.

  • Perhaps you think small-cap stocks are overvalued, for instance.

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  • It doesn't make any sense for me to own these risky small cap stocks.

  • Mitchell is a senior editor at Lombardi Financial specializing in small-cap stocks.

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  • I'm currently shifting into small-cap alternative energy companies (wind, small hydro, landfill methane electric).

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  • A better option is buying a small-cap ETF as a temporary fix—emphasis on "temporary"—until more attractive opportunities emerge in individual small-cap stocks.

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Synonyms

small-capitalization
vssmall-cap
  • Specialized
7.9

Of companies worth less than one billion dollars

applies to the company itself or to its stock rather than only to stocks

Antonyms

large-cap
  • Specialized
2 6.9

Of companies with very large value on the stock market, often five billion dollars or more

How Big

large cap
  • Jargon
1 4.4
midcap
  • Jargon
6.3
small-cap
  • Specialized
4 7.0

Surface Forms

small-cap positive

Morphology

small-cap = small + cap (semi-transparent) = small + cap

The compound is compositionally small + cap, but 'cap' is specialized financial jargon (short for market capitalization) which many learners may not know.

Etymology

Small-cap comes from the two parts small and cap, where cap is short for 'capitalization', the total market value of a company's shares. So, small-cap means a company (or its stock) with a small total value, which is why small-cap stocks are the stocks of smaller, often riskier companies.