Here Are The 12 Small Stocks Everyone Suddenly Wants To Buy

 

Huge S&P 500 stocks dominated all year. But suddenly this month, investors are looking at scooping up much smaller companies for a song.

 

Twelve stocks in the SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap ETF (SLY), like industrial Circor International (CIR), struggling financial PacWest Bancorp (PACW) and consumer discretionary Designer Brands (DBI), are up 25% or more just in the month of June so far, says an Investor's Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence and MarketSmith.

 

The S&P 600 Small Cap ETF itself it up 7.2% in the month. That blows away the big-company-focused SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), which is up "only" 2.7% in that time.

 

"Small cap stocks have turned the table on their large cap peers with five percentage points of outperformance," said Bespoke Investment Group in a report.

 

And investors are making no secret of the kinds of small stocks they like best. And if history is a guide, many of them could rise further.