The Best Small-Cap Value ETF to Invest $100 in Right Now

2026-02-10 14:57:00 ET

Thanks to inflation, $100 doesn't sound like much these days, but there's another way for investors to look at that amount. Consider it as a seed to be planted and, when tended to, one that will grow and bear fruit.

Here's how to put $100 to work right now. A fine idea is small-cap value stocks, particularly when considering the Russell 2000 and the S&P SmallCap 600 indexes are both sporting double-digit year-to-date percentage gains.

For investors who don't want to pick individual stocks in the small-cap value arena, the good news is that this asset class is accessible via a slew of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), including the Dimensional US Small Cap Value ETF (NYSEMKT: DFSV) .

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