The best small-cap stocks right now, ranked.
440 stocks qualify today; the 25 below rank highest on the full model. Companies under $5 billion in market value — the scale the small-cap indexes track — that still clear the size and liquidity screen, so every name is big enough to trade.
Every score is a percentile across the whole US universe we cover — a 92 beats 92% of it. How the model was built and blind-tested is on the methodology page; what each factor means is on the factor glossary.
| Ticker | Company | Mkt cap | Rank | 1w rank Δ | Revisions | Value | Momentum | Quality | Accruals | Issuance | Growth | Volatility | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CareDx, Inc. Diagnostics & Research | $2.3B | 99.5 | +0.3 | 99.3 | 89.3 | 91.7 | 99.0 | 50.3 | 94.8 | 76.2 | 47.9 | 34.5 | |
Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. Entertainment | $4.1B | 99.4 | +10.2 | 89.2 | 56.7 | 96.7 | 73.0 | 94.3 | 91.1 | 89.6 | 84.1 | 27.1 | |
Ingevity Corp. Specialty Chemicals | $2.8B | 99.3 | −0.1 | 93.5 | 86.1 | 87.0 | 92.2 | 98.0 | 99.0 | 37.4 | 60.1 | 32.4 | |
Cargurus, Inc. Auto & Truck Dealerships | $3.4B | 99.2 | −0.1 | 85.5 | 84.4 | 66.3 | 99.8 | 91.7 | 97.8 | 56.8 | 88.8 | 29.5 | |
Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. Medical Care Facilities | $2.2B | 99.2 | −0.6 | 83.1 | 96.8 | 96.4 | 90.1 | 66.4 | 94.3 | 55.4 | 78.9 | 35.5 | |
Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. Resorts & Casinos | $2.3B | 99.0 | −0.1 | 80.6 | 82.3 | 90.6 | 95.8 | 65.8 | 85.5 | 68.5 | 96.3 | 34.9 | |
Delek US Holdings, Inc. Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing | $3.9B | 99.0 | +0.2 | 90.9 | 92.6 | 99.3 | 74.7 | 74.9 | 54.9 | 98.0 | 66.2 | 27.6 | |
FIGS, Inc. Apparel Manufacturing | $2.5B | 98.9 | −0.1 | 95.6 | 80.9 | 92.3 | 92.6 | 71.9 | 46.4 | 92.8 | 70.3 | 33.8 | |
Encore Capital Group, Inc. Credit Services | $2.3B | 98.7 | −0.1 | 93.8 | 81.0 | 99.4 | 95.8 | 24.0 | 64.4 | 99.0 | 88.8 | 34.6 | |
Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. Credit Services | $4.6B | 98.7 | 0.0 | 94.2 | 93.0 | 99.5 | 91.7 | 39.2 | 99.3 | 92.2 | 2.9 | 25.3 | |
Workiva, Inc. Software - Application | $3.8B | 98.7 | −0.1 | 99.4 | 72.5 | 40.0 | 89.4 | 89.8 | 79.8 | 87.8 | 93.2 | 27.9 | |
Envista Holdings Corp. Medical Instruments & Supplies | $4.7B | 98.6 | +0.2 | 96.4 | 96.0 | 74.7 | 69.5 | 70.4 | 84.6 | 72.6 | 87.2 | 25.1 | |
Haemonetics Corp. Medical Devices | $4.3B | 98.6 | −0.1 | 86.7 | 91.8 | 66.1 | 85.6 | 92.1 | 97.2 | 46.2 | 91.1 | 26.3 | |
Teradata Corp. Software - Infrastructure | $2.6B | 98.4 | 0.0 | 73.0 | 98.8 | 68.6 | 95.0 | 83.0 | 99.1 | 49.6 | 84.7 | 33.2 | |
Star Bulk Carriers Corp. Marine Shipping | $3.3B | 98.4 | −0.4 | 81.2 | 84.5 | 87.9 | 59.3 | 78.6 | 91.6 | 93.5 | 61.8 | 29.8 | |
Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing | $4.0B | 98.2 | 0.0 | 85.1 | 91.0 | 95.9 | 83.7 | 17.4 | 99.5 | 96.5 | 72.2 | 27.3 | |
Benchmark Electronics, Inc. Electronic Components | $2.9B | 98.1 | +0.3 | 96.8 | 78.7 | 89.0 | 55.8 | 76.4 | 84.1 | 73.0 | 79.8 | 31.7 | |
Box, Inc. Software - Infrastructure | $4.5B | 98.0 | −0.1 | 80.9 | 79.5 | 61.9 | 94.4 | 91.2 | 99.2 | 48.5 | 98.4 | 25.5 | |
OFG Bancorp Banks - Regional | $2.4B | 97.9 | 0.0 | 99.2 | 72.2 | 74.2 | 89.6 | 58.0 | 76.6 | 75.6 | 82.5 | 34.3 | |
Federated Hermes, Inc. Asset Management | $4.9B | 97.9 | +0.1 | 95.8 | 81.8 | 85.7 | 99.2 | 22.1 | 91.9 | 74.6 | 93.8 | 24.6 | |
Pitney Bowes, Inc. Integrated Freight & Logistics | $2.2B | 97.9 | −0.2 | 65.5 | 96.3 | 93.4 | 96.3 | 93.2 | 66.9 | 50.4 | 80.5 | 35.3 | |
Tenable Holdings, Inc. Software - Infrastructure | $4.2B | 97.8 | 0.0 | 94.6 | 76.7 | 63.0 | 86.7 | 96.1 | 78.9 | 64.5 | 71.8 | 26.5 | |
Constellium SE Aluminum | $4.1B | 97.8 | −0.5 | 82.6 | 99.3 | 84.3 | 92.8 | 25.6 | 97.5 | 98.7 | 38.8 | 27.0 | |
Extreme Networks, Inc. Communication Equipment | $3.2B | 97.6 | +0.2 | 76.9 | 85.7 | 80.9 | 86.8 | 85.1 | 87.9 | 70.4 | 48.1 | 30.1 | |
Helios Technologies, Inc. Specialty Industrial Machinery | $2.7B | 97.5 | +6.0 | 98.9 | 58.0 | 87.1 | 59.7 | 76.9 | 95.0 | 89.8 | 35.8 | 32.6 |
Today’s snapshot only — the list rotates as the scores move. Click any ticker for its full page: rank against every factor, analyst price targets, financials and news.
What these small-cap stocks look like up close.
Figures for the 25 listed names, from the same data behind their stock pages.
14 of the 25 names with analyst coverage this month carry a Buy-or-better majority.
Cheapest on trailing P/E: PARR at 4.7×, TDC at 5.6× and CSTM at 7.6×.
Highest forward dividend yields: SBLK at 12.4%, OFG at 2.6% and PBI at 2.4%.
Where we've written the stock up.
An analyst-style read on the business behind the score — published on the stock page.
This page is one list. Monday covers the whole market.
Computed off the Friday close and sent before the US open.
Market Radar reports the week’s largest rank changes across roughly 4,600 US stocks and the factor behind each one. The names above will rotate as the scores move — the Radar is how you hear what changed.
Questions people ask about small-cap stocks.
- What are the best small-cap stocks right now?
- As at 15 Aug 2026, the top-ranked small-cap stocks on Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model are CareDx, Inc. (CDNA), Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSGE), Ingevity Corp. (NGVT). The full top 25 is the table on this page, re-ranked every trading day. A rank is general information, not personal advice.
- How does Ticker Nerd pick the best small-cap stocks?
- Nobody picks them. A factor model scores roughly 4,600 US stocks every trading day on families like value, momentum, quality and growth, and this page is one fixed cut of that ranking. The research process behind the model — point-in-time data from 2005, locked test windows, logged rejections — is published on the methodology page.
- Are small-cap stocks a good investment?
- That depends on the price paid and on your circumstances — this page is general information, not advice. What the data says as at 15 Aug 2026: of the 25 listed names with analyst coverage this month, 14 carry a Buy-or-better majority, and every rank above is a percentile across roughly 4,600 US stocks.
The same model, other cuts.
Every list reads the one ranking — the stock screener index has the complete set.