This article takes a look at the best-performing small-cap stocks with a list that presents an interesting group of emerging companies that are fast-growing or have attracted significant bullish sentiment based on a strong outlook. We take the Russell 2000 (IWM) constituents as our universe given the index and tracking ETF is the benchmark for small capitalization companies.
Small caps are generally defined as any company with a market value less than $10 billion although you can break the group down further to include "micro-cap" with a value under ~$250 million and "nano-cap"