3 The Motley Fool Stocks to Buy in July if You’re a Small-Cap Investor During a downturn, small-cap stocks are hurt harder and recover faster than larger-cap companies. It’s why small-cap equities have outperformed their larger-cap and mid-cap counterparts over the last year: Small caps have gained 127 percent, mid caps have gained 120 percent, and large caps have gained 96 percent since the market collapsed in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic. So long as the government doesn’t intervene again, this might be the actual summer of recovery, implying that small-cap stocks’ recent gains were only the beginning of their rise./nRead More