Small caps

Penny stocks typically don’t cost a penny anymore. Companies trading as high as $5 per share are now considered “penny stocks,” and for good reason. These stocks lack the stability and performance reliability of those with a bigger market cap. With that said, buying a fiver doesn...

Shares of Digital Ally, Inc. (NASDAQ: DGLY), a producer of digital video image and storage products for use in law enforcement, surged higher by more than 50 percent to $6.27 on Friday following the deadly shooting in Dallas in which five police offers were murdered by a sniper. Investors and...

AdvisorShares, one of the largest issuers of actively managed exchange-traded funds, added to its lineup Thursday with the debut of the AdvisorShares Cornerstone Small Cap ETF (NYSE: SCAP). The new ETF is managed by Cornerstone Investment Partners. Welcoming SCAP SCAP can hold “U.S.-traded...

Deutsche Bank AG (USA) (NYSE: DB)'s Deutsche Asset Management (Deutsche AM) unit added to its comprehensive factor lineup of exchange-traded funds Tuesday with the debut of the Deutsche X-trackers Russell 2000 Comprehensive Factor ETF (NYSE: DESC). The Deutsche X-trackers Russell 2000 Comprehensive...

The Russell 2000 and the S&P SmallCap 600 Indexes are the benchmarks of benchmarks when it comes to smaller U.S. stocks. There are plenty of exchange-traded funds linked to those indexes, but for the purposes of this piece, we'll use the iShares Russell 2000 Index (ETF) (NYSE: IWM), the...

U.S. investors usually do not have a problem embracing domestic small caps. The size of some small-cap exchange-traded funds confirms as much, but investors are often lightly allocated to ex-U.S. small caps on the notion that if smaller U.S. stocks are volatile, the international equivalents must...

In what good could be a dose of good news for the broader market and those looking for some positive vibes when it comes to investors' willingness to take on risk, small caps are breaking out. Somewhat quietly, the widely followed iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE: IWM), the largest small-cap...

It has been a ho-hum year for small-cap stocks as highlighted by a gain of 0.75 percent for the benchmark Russell 2000, and things are mixed for micro-cap exchange-traded funds — as just one of the three ETFs dedicated to smaller small-caps is up on the year. An interesting election year...

Investors typically prize small caps for growth. Rarely are these stocks and standard small-cap exchange-traded funds thought of as dividend destinations — certainly not with the Russell 2000 and the S&P SmallCap 600 sporting an average trailing 12-month dividend yield of 1.46 percent....

Before proclaiming consumer staples stocks as boring and small-caps as disappointing to this point in 2016, have a look at the PowerShares S&P SmllCp Csmr Stpls Pfo (NASDAQ: PSCC). The PowerShares S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples Portfolio is small-cap cousin of the popular Consumer Staples...

Sugary drinks are not only bad for your health, they may also be bad for your investment portfolio. CLSA analyst Brian Doyle recently spoke with endocrinology and obesity expert Dr. Robert Lustig about the food industry’s long-term impact on the health of consumers. Dr. Lustig, who is a...

Deutsche Bank has warned that it still sees low investor interest in the small- and mid-cap Internet space, despite a strong bounce back in shares off February lows. The firm highlighted three companies within the space: Yelp Inc (NYSE: YELP), Shutterstock Inc (NYSE: SSTK) and Zillow Group, Inc.-...