A Step-by-Step Guide to Picking the Best Small Cap Stocks

Todd Lincoln, MBA
Investor’s Handbook
11 min readOct 3, 2024

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Small caps are a very exciting and highly profitable area of the market to invest in.

But finding the best companies among the ocean of small cap stocks can be like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Today we’re going to cover four important questions about finding the best small cap stocks:

  1. What are small cap stocks?
  2. What should you know about investing in small cap stocks?
  3. Which small cap stocks perform best?
  4. How do you find the best small cap stocks to buy? (A step-by-step guide)

Let’s dig into exactly what small caps are and how to find the best among them.

What Are Small Cap Stocks?

What exactly is a “small cap stock”?

While we often refer to “small cap stocks” as small companies with a market cap of less than $2B, there are actually a few different tiers of small companies:

The true small cap stock definition is companies with a market cap between $300M — $2B. There are currently 1,393 small cap stocks trading in the U.S. (excluding OTC / pink sheet stocks).

Examples of small cap stocks include well known companies such as The Cheesecake…

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Todd Lincoln, MBA
Todd Lincoln, MBA

Written by Todd Lincoln, MBA

Stock-market investor, battle-scarred entrepreneur, and fireside philosopher. Creator of Investor’s Handbook: https://medium.com/the-investors-handbook

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