Best-Performing Stocks Under $5 in 2011

(TheStreet) -- Stocks under $5, such as TeamStaff

and Majesco Entertainment

, have more than doubled already this year even as most small-cap stocks have been brutalized by economic weakness and global debt woes. Small-cap stocks have been the big winners during the two-year bull market that followed one of the worst worldwide recessions. Money managers argue that now is a time for investors to get defensive and move into less-risky asset classes like large-cap equities. On the other end of the capitalization spectrum, some small-cap stocks have seen outsized gains even as most have underperformed.

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