Small-cap stocks have quietly been outperforming the S&P 500 through early 2026, a rotation that many investors who stayed concentrated in large-cap technology missed entirely. At the same time, the Russell 2000 has been climbing while the narrative around mega-cap dominance has begun to fracture, and the funds positioned to capture that shift are not the ones most investors think of first.
Three small-cap ETFs are doing something worth paying attention to as they beat the S&P 500 year-to-date, none of which are household names.
This post originally appeared at 24/7 Wall St.