small-cap — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Whose market capitalization is between $300 million to $2 billion.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • of stocks

   Examples

   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.

Noun

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

   Examples

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

Adjective

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

   Synonyms

   small-capitalizationsmall-capitalisation