NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

The Oncology Institute, Inc.

Relmada Therapeutics, Inc.

Palvella Therapeutics, Inc.

Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd.

In 2025, small-cap stocks generally lagged their large-cap peers. While the <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/">S&amp;P 500</a>&nbsp;index rose 16.6% over the year, the <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ERUT/">Russell 2000</a>, which tracks smaller companies, gained 11.1%. Some small caps, however, delivered explosive returns, with share prices rising more than 600%, notes Freedom Broker, whose screen covered companies with market capitalizations between $300 million and $2 billion.

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Rigetti Computing, Inc.

Nebius Group N.V.

AST SpaceMobile, Inc.

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Apple Inc.

Дэниел Айвз — один из самых «бычьих» аналитиков по акциям Apple — ожидает, что компания прояснит свою «невидимую стратегию в области ИИ» и сохранит Тима Кука на посту CEO


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NVIDIA Corporation

Lumentum Holdings Inc.

Broadcom Inc.

Mizuho Securities analyst Vijay Rakesh presented a list of top favorites in the semiconductor sector for 2026. The list includes Nvidia, Broadcom and Lumentum Holdings, a company that supplies optical solutions for data centers, which is little known to a wide range of investors, MarketWatch <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-quietly-dominant-stock-plus-nvidia-and-broadcom-are-mizuhos-top-chip-picks-4b3181cd">writes</a>. Lumentum's shares have quadrupled over the past year, outperforming both Nvidia and Broadcom.

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Frontier Developments plc

Ubisoft Entertainment SA

Remedy Entertainment Oyj

Video games remain one of the fastest growing categories in the entertainment industry. According to Bloomberg Intelligence estimates, total global sales of gaming companies exceeded $183 billion in 2024. Analysts expect the upward trend to continue amid structural technological shifts, including the development of cloud gaming, the use of AI tools in game development, and the emergence of new gaming platforms.

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SoundHound AI, Inc.

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Cardiff Oncology, Inc.

Shares in Cardiff Oncology could rise more than fourfold from current levels, according to <a href="https://dashboard.channelchek.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/CRDF_20260105_27958.pdf">Noble Capital Markets</a>, which has initiated coverage of the biotech. Cardiff is developing a therapy targeting a form of colorectal cancer for which many standard treatments are ineffective.

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Capita plc

TUI AG

Heineken N.V.

Rheinmetall AG

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In 2025, while U.S. tech megacaps continued to push to new highs, exchange-traded funds focused on small caps – particularly outside of the U.S. – delivered standout returns. According to BofA, global equities outperformed U.S. peers by more than 15 percentage points – the widest gap in 30 years. Much of that outperformance came from ETFs tracking small caps outside of the U.S.

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Molina Healthcare, Inc.

Shares of mid-cap insurer Molina Healthcare rose more than 4% in trading on Tuesday, December 30, after investor Michael Burry, whom the main character in&nbsp;<i>The Big Short</i>&nbsp;was based on, called the company a “diamond in the rough” and a potential takeover target. He compared Molina with GEICO, the insurer that became one of Warren Buffett’s most successful investments, and said if he were "sitting on enough billions," he would acquire Molina outright.

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In 2025, emerging market stocks confidently<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-emerging-markets-stocks-can-keep-trouncing-the-s-p-500-3717fc49"> outperformed</a> US stocks, which was one of the main surprises of the outgoing year. By December 29, the gap in growth dynamics between the MSCI Emerging Markets (judging by <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EEM/">the</a> largest <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EEM/">ETF</a> following it) and the S&amp;P 500 exceeded 12 percentage points. This is like a "stretched rubber band," says Arjun Jayaraman of Causeway Capital Management: US stocks have significantly outperformed emerging markets for a long time. And now a correction has occurred.

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Xperi Inc.

Meridian Holdings Inc.

Allot Ltd.

Electromed, Inc.

Millrose Properties, Inc.

Unitil Corporation

MP Materials Corp.

Wall Street <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/eto-vyigrys-barron-s-nazval-drajvery-rosta-small-cap-kompanij-v-2026-godu">expects</a>&nbsp;the macroeconomic backdrop in 2026 to be supportive for small and mid caps, with markets increasingly pricing in a so-called Goldilocks scenario: steady economic growth without overheating, a gradual normalization of inflation, and continued support for the labor market under a neutral-to-soft policy stance from the Fed, according to analysts at Freedom Broker. They prepared for&nbsp;<i>Oninvest</i>&nbsp;a list of eight small- and mid-cap stocks investors should pay attention to in 2026.

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