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$279.141d -0.1%5d +0.8%settled close · 2026-11-02
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Mkt cap $81B (11/2)β 1.1252w $229–305Shares 288.5MNYSE Arca since 2000
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| Date | Voice | Stance | Venue | Thesis |
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| 2026-10-23 | Liz Ann SondersChief investment strategist, Charles Schwab | Bullish | Liz Ann Sonders (newest) | Profitable Russell 2000 stocks are outperforming non-profitable peers by 19 percentage points YTD and the… |
| 2026-10-21 | Unknown | Bearish | CNBC Fast Money Final Trade | The Russell 2000 should be avoided while it remains inside its Ichimoku cloud and a declining price channel. |
| 2026-10-21 | Tom HayesFounder & chairman, Great Hill Capital | Bullish | Hedge Fund Tips (Tom Hayes) | Small caps had their second-worst quarter this century and are entering their seasonally strongest period… |
| 2026-10-20 | Kevin Mahn (Hennion & Walsh)President & CIO, Hennion & Walsh | Bullish | Yahoo Finance | Smaller-cap SMR companies providing off-grid nuclear power directly to data centers benefit from the AI power… |
| 2026-10-19 | Michael HowellLiquidity strategist — CrossBorder Capital | Bearish | Bitcoin Magazine | Global liquidity is being drained into the real economy, and less-liquid market segments get hit first — the… |
| 2026-10-16 | Richard BernsteinGlobal Head of Macro & Customized Investing, Janus Henderson (founder, Richard Bernstein Advisors) | Bullish | CNBC (uncut) | Fed tightening cycle is broadening the market, and falling long-term rates reduce financing costs for smaller… |
| 2026-10-16 | Keith LernerCIO & chief market strategist, Truist Advisory Services | Bullish | Bloomberg TV (uncut) | Small caps are oversold after being beaten down while tech held up, valuations and prices have reset, and a… |
| 2026-10-16 | Rob Sechan (NewEdge Wealth)Co-founder & CEO, NewEdge Wealth | Bearish | CNBC Halftime Committee | Persistently elevated rates disproportionately hurt the leveraged, lower-quality businesses that drove the… |
| 2026-10-15 | Steve SosnickChief Strategist, Interactive Brokers | Bearish | CNBC (uncut) | Many Russell 2000 components are unprofitable and depend on debt financing; rising yields tighten credit for… |
| 2026-10-15 | Julie BealChief Market Strategist & Portfolio Manager, Kayne Anderson Rudnick | Bullish | Bloomberg TV (uncut) | Small caps have a higher labor cost component and should benefit disproportionately from AI-driven efficiency… |
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| Date | Voice | Stance | Venue | Thesis |
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| 2026-10-15 | Tom HayesFounder & chairman, Great Hill Capital | Bullish | Hedge Fund Tips (Tom Hayes) | Small caps just had their second-worst quarter versus the S&P this century, yet ISM manufacturing is… |
| 2026-10-14 | Courtney Garcia (Payne Capital)Senior Wealth Advisor, Payne Capital | Bullish | CNBC (uncut) | Small caps have been disproportionately punished by rising short-term rates given their floating-rate debt… |
| 2026-10-14 | Kara MurphyCIO, Kestra Investment Management | Bullish | CNBC (uncut) | Earnings growth is spreading beyond mega-cap tech into small and mid caps, while the S&P 500's extreme… |
| 2026-10-14 | Megan ChiuChief Investment Strategist, Wilmington Trust | Bullish | CNBC (uncut) | Small cap has underperformed materially but the firm's macro call on the economy and Fed path makes it a… |
| 2026-10-13 | Lori CalvasinaHead of US equity strategy, RBC Capital Markets | Bearish | Ed Yardeni (newest) | Small caps face a structural headwind from rate-hike repricing fears while NASDAQ futures remain heavily… |
| 2026-10-09 | Amanda AgatiCIO, PNC Asset Management Group | Bearish | Bloomberg TV (uncut) | Rate sensitivity and pressure on the lower-end consumer will concentrate pain in small and mid caps rather… |
| 2026-10-06 | Jean Marie EveillardFormer manager, First Eagle Global Fund (ex-SoGen) | Bullish | MOI Global | Many Japanese small caps with large cash hoards trade at 3-5x EV/EBIT when a reasonably good business should… |
| 2026-10-05 | Jack ManleyGlobal market strategist, J.P. Morgan Asset Management | Bearish | Bloomberg Surveillance | Rising rates are driving a flight to quality that disproportionately punishes small caps, which lack the AI… |
| 2026-10-01 | Tracie McmillionHead of global asset allocation, Wells Fargo Investment Institute | Bearish | Bloomberg Surveillance | Small caps carry net debt-to-EBITDA of 5x versus 1.5x for large caps, making them structurally vulnerable to… |
| 2026-10-01 | Kate MooreCIO, Citi Wealth | Bearish | Bloomberg Open Interest | Small caps are more rate sensitive and will be challenged as policy continues tightening, with price… |
| 2026-09-23 | Gargi ChaudhuriChief investment & portfolio strategist, Americas, BlackRock | Bearish | Bloomberg Surveillance | Small caps are most sensitive to interest rates and have already begun pulling back since Jackson Hole as the… |
| 2026-09-19 | Mark CooperCIO, MAC Alpha Capital Management | Short | The Acquirers Podcast | Small cap companies lacking competitive advantage, with no history of earning cost of capital, and showing… |
| 2026-09-14 | Josh SchaferWriter, Barron's | Bearish | Barron's Roundtable | Small-caps carry proportionally more short-term floating-rate debt than large-caps, making them more… |
| 2026-09-10 | Tom Lee (Fundstrat)Co-founder & head of research, Fundstrat | Bullish | Wealthion | Banks are a large Russell 2000 weight, so AI-driven de-cyclicalization of financial services will compress… |
| 2026-09-10 | Tom Lee (Fundstrat)Co-founder & head of research, Fundstrat | Bullish | Tom Lee | Small caps remain attractive given easing financial conditions and a likely Fed hold, with the SMID-cap… |
| 2026-07-20 | Sam HuszczoFounder & CIO, SGH Wealth Management | Bullish | Bloomberg ETF IQ | Every single one of the 11 GICS sectors shows small cap outperforming large cap, making this a broad… |
| 2026-07-07 | Meb FaberCo-founder & CIO, Cambria | Bullish | ETF Prime | US value and small cap stocks trade at roughly one-third the S&P 500's multiple via shareholder-yield… |
| 2026-06-26 | Ryan DetrickChief market strategist, Carson Group | Bullish | The Compound | IWM/SPY is breaking out on a relative basis and the S&P 600 advance-decline line hit an all-time high… |
| 2025-11-25 | Meb FaberCo-founder & CIO, Cambria | Bullish | Rask | Within US markets small and mid-cap stocks offer more attractive valuations than large-cap, where the value… |
| 2025-09-19 | Felix JauvinCo-host, Forward Guidance (Blockworks) | Bullish | Forward Guidance | Fed rate cuts reduce the cost of capital that had concentrated flows into mega-cap tech; enormous short… |
| 2025-08-15 | Tyler NevilleTrader, Muddy Waters Capital | Bullish | Forward Guidance | Non-commercial futures traders are at an all-time record short position in Russell futures, historically a… |
| 2025-05-28 | David CervantesFounder, Pinebrook Capital Management | Bearish | Forward Guidance | 42% of R2K companies are unprofitable, selection bias from regulatory costs keeps quality firms private, and… |
| 2025-03-31 | Michael GayedPublisher, The Lead-Lag Report | Bullish | Wealthion | Small caps are halfway through a lost decade as passive flows flood mega caps, but deregulation targeting… |
| 2024-12-21 | Tyler NevilleTrader, Muddy Waters Capital | Bullish | Forward Guidance | Post-FOMC VIX spike drove 100th-percentile short selling and pushed the VIX term structure into extreme… |
| 2024-12-14 | Quinn ThompsonFounder & CIO, Lekker Capital | Bullish | Forward Guidance | After 8% underperformance vs NASDAQ in two weeks driven by rising dollar and yields, a dovish Fed cut should… |
| 2024-11-23 | Tyler NevilleTrader, Muddy Waters Capital | Bullish | Forward Guidance | Trump policy mix (pro-labor, pro-Main Street) structurally favors small caps over Mag 7; hedge funds have… |
| 2024-10-19 | Tyler NevilleTrader, Muddy Waters Capital | Bullish | Forward Guidance | IWM has the strongest November seasonality of any month over the past 10 years and small caps have… |
| 2024-09-21 | Tyler NevilleTrader, Muddy Waters Capital | Bullish | Forward Guidance | A fiscal super cycle favoring domestic reinvestment and lower short-term rates relieving pressure on… |
| 2024-08-02 | Bryn Talkington (Requisite)Managing Partner, Requisite Capital | Bearish | The Compound | Russell 2000 is structurally impaired — 42% of members carry negative net income, operating margins are 4.7%… |
| 2022-08-18 | Rick FerriFounder, Ferri Investment Solutions; host, Bogleheads on Investing | Bullish | Excess Returns | Small cap value equities emulate private equity returns because the market discounts their valuation for… |
| 2021-03-08 | Joel GreenblattCo-CIO, Gotham Asset Management | Bearish | The Intrinsic Value Podcast | Over 300 profitable-market-cap money-losing companies returned 100%+ in 2020 as if all will become the next… |
| 2020-06-21 | Jim O ShaughnessyFounder & CEO, O'Shaughnessy Ventures | Bullish | Excess Returns | Valuation spreads between small cap value and growth are at historically unprecedented levels, and the last… |
| 2018-10-29 | Joel GreenblattCo-CIO, Gotham Asset Management | Bearish | Bloomberg Television | Small-cap universe is at the 6th percentile of cheapness (cheaper 94% of the time historically), implying… |
| 2011-05-21 | David HerroCo-CIO international equities, Harris Associates (Oakmark) | Bullish | Bill Nygren | International small caps trade at a slight discount (~5-6%) to international large caps unlike the US where… |
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