3 Quick Points to Simplify the Russell 2000 Index

The most common small-cap stock market benchmark

Tunji Onigbanjo
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
3 min readDec 23, 2020

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The Russell 2000 Index is a small-cap stock market index of the smallest 2,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index. All members of both indices are public companies incorporated in the United States. Also, both indices are market-cap weighted. The Frank Russell Company started the Russell 2000 in 1984…

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