Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SMALL-CAPITALIZATION (SMALL CAP) STOCKS
  
  The stocks of companies whose market value is less than $1 billion. Small-cap companies tend to grow faster than large-cap companies and typically use any profits for expansion rather to pay dividends. They also are more volatile than large-cap companies, and have a higher failure rate.
  
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