If You'd Invested $1,000 in the iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (IJR) 10 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today

Most investors understand that small-cap stocks often offer enormous upside potential. But they also bring considerably more risk to the table. That's the typical trade-off with any investment.This relationship raises a key question, though: As a whole, how much overall performance are small-cap stocks as a group actually dishing out these days in exchange for the risk they impose?The graphic below tells the tale. A $1,000 invested in small-cap stocks via the broad-based iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (NYSEMKT: IJR) made back in early September of 2015 would be worth $2,130. That figure grows to $2,475 if you reinvested any dividends paid by the exchange-traded fund along the way. Not bad.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool