{"id":1612,"date":"2021-11-19T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamawealth.com\/blog\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:53:36","slug":"best-small-cap-stocks-to-buy-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/best-small-cap-stocks-to-buy-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Smallcap investing: What are Small Cap Stocks, Why is BSE Smallcap Index a good benchmark?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you\u2019ve heard about small cap stocks and are wondering what they are and how they work, we\u2019ll talk about them in this article.<\/p>\n<p>You may also find this useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/what-is-demat-account-why-you-need-one\/\">Why Can&#8217;t You Buy a Single Stock Without a Demat Account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also find this useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/how-compounding-works-mutual-fund-sip\/\">How Does Compounding Actually Work In A Mutual Fund SIP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also find this useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/why-rising-bond-yield-pulls-money-out-of-stocks\/\">Why Does a Rising Bond Yield Pull Money Out of Stocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also find this useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/what-is-ofs-ipo-offer-for-sale-explained\/\">What Is an OFS IPO and Why Doesn&#8217;t the Company Get the Money<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also find this useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/what-is-circuit-limit-stock-market\/\">What Is a Circuit Limit and Why Do Stocks Hit It<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also find this useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/what-is-a-sector-fund-should-beginner-invest\/\">What Is a Sector Fund and Should a Beginner Invest in One?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also find this useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/what-is-rupee-cost-averaging\/\">What Is Rupee-Cost Averaging and Why It Worked for You This<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also find this useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/how-portfolio-management-actually-works\/\">How Portfolio Management Actually Works<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also find this useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/elss-vs-ppf-vs-nps-80c-india-2026\/\">ELSS vs PPF vs NPS: Which 80C Option Should You Pick in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may also find this useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/how-a-public-provident-fund-can-secure-your-retirement\/\">How a Public Provident Fund Can Secure Your Retirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are Small Cap Stocks?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand small-caps, we need to first understand what \u201ccap\u201d stands for. Market Capitalization is a simple metric to measure the size of a company. Simply put, the value of all the company\u2019s outstanding shares is its market capitalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[Market Capitalization = Total number of outstanding shares of the company x Current share price]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, in India, companies that have a market capitalization of less than \u20b95,000 crore are called small-cap companies. In the US, small caps are categorised as companies with market cap between $300 million to $2 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These small-cap companies are smaller in size, operations and revenues but they are not necessarily startups or new firms. Often, these could be old mature companies with great business models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bseindia.com\/sensex\/code\/103\">Here<\/a> is a list of the best BSE small cap stocks.&nbsp;<","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve heard about small cap stocks and are wondering what they are and how they work, we\u2019ll talk about them in this article. You may also find this useful: Why Can&#8217;t You Buy a Single Stock Without a Demat Account. You may also find this useful: How Does Compounding Actually Work In A Mutual&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/best-small-cap-stocks-to-buy-today\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smallcap investing: What are Small Cap Stocks, Why is BSE Smallcap Index a good benchmark?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44,80,199,682,684],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing-fundamentals-mutual-funds-guide","tag-asset-manager","tag-buildwealth","tag-equity-investments","tag-small-cap-funds","tag-small-cap-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6626,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/6626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}