History Says the S&P 400 and 600 Indexes Could Be Poised to Soar

If you've invested your money in the broader benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) index over the last five years, then you've done quite well. The index recently registered all-time highs and was up close to 96% over the last five years (as of July 7). A large part of the success can be attributed to a handful of high-flying artificial intelligence (AI) stocks that have reached multitrillion-dollar market caps, effectively putting the rest of the index on their backs.However, value investors who like to go fishing for small- and mid-cap stocks in the S&P 400 (SNPINDEX: ^MID) and S&P 600 indexes haven't fared as well, lagging the S&P 500, especially for small-cap stocks in the S&P 600. Luckily, by some historical metrics, history says this could be about to change.While the five-year charts don't look so bad, the three-year chart is worse, especially for the S&P 600, which gained about 22.5% over the last three years, compared to the S&P 500's 63% gain.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool