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August 2019 List of All Russell 2000 Stocks & Companies


Article updated August 3rd, 2019 by Ben Reynolds
Spreadsheet & table data updated weekly on Wednesdays

The Russell 2000 Index is the world’s best-known benchmark for small cap domestic stocks.

 

Click here to instantly download your free list of all Russell 2000 stocks, along with important investing metrics.

This article includes a free Excel spreadsheet and table of all The Russell 2000 companies, along with metrics that matter.  This information can help you find high quality small cap stocks trading at fair or better prices.

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Russell 2000 Stocks List Excel Download

Small cap stocks have historically outperformed their larger counterparts. Accordingly, the Russell 2000 Index can be an excellent place to look for new investment opportunities. You can download a spreadsheet with all Russell 2000 stocks below.

 

Click here to instantly download your free list of all Russell 2000 stocks, along with important investing metrics.

Russell 2000 Stocks List Table

The Russell 2000 Index List available for download at the link above contains important information for each of the 2000 stocks in the index, including:

You can view a sample of our Russell 2000 stocks spreadsheet below:

Keep reading this article to learn more about the Russell 2000 Index and how to use the Russell 2000 list to find compelling investment ideas.

Russell 2000 Index Overview & Construction

The Russell 2000 Index is a subset of the Russell 3000 Index.  FTSE Russell maintains the Russell 3000 Index, which is comprised of the 4000 largest publicly traded U.S. companies.  The index is reconstructed annually and enhanced quarterly with new IPOs (Initial Public Offerings).

The Russell 3000 Index is broken down into the following subgroups (which despite its name includes 4000 securities):

How To Use The Russell 2000 Stocks List To Find Investment Ideas

Having an Excel document that contains financial information on each Russell 2000 stock can be tremendously useful.

This document becomes far more powerful when combined with a knowledge of how to manipulate data within Microsoft Excel.

With that in mind, this article will provide a tutorial on how to implement two actionable investing screens to the Russell 2000 Stocks List.

The first screen that we’ll implement is for stocks trading at price-to-earnings ratios below 15. These are small-cap stocks trading at attractive valuations and should avoid the valuation risk that accompanies investing in overpriced securities.

Screen 1: Small-Cap Value Stocks With Price-To-Earnings Ratios Below 15

Step 1: Download the Russell 2000 Stocks List at the link above.

Step 2:  Highlight all columns.

Step 3:  Go to the “Data” tab, then click “Filter”.  See the image below for a walk through of steps 2 and 3.

Step 4: Go to the P/E ratio column, click the filter arrow, go to numbers filter, click between, and set to between 0 and 15.  See the image below for a guide to this step.

Screen PE Ratio

The remaining stocks in this spreadsheet are Russell 2000 stocks with price-to-earnings ratios below 15 and positive earnings.

The next screen we’ll show you how to implement is for Russell 2000 stocks that have high dividend yields and reasonable payout ratios.

Screen 2: High-Yield, Reasonable Payout Ratio Small Cap Stocks

Step 1: Download the Russell 2000 Stocks List at the link above., and set the columns to “Filter” (see steps 2 and 3 of screen 1)

Step 2: Go to the Dividend Yield column, click the filter arrow, go to numbers filter, click “greater than or equal to”, and add in 0.05.

Step 3: Go to the Payout Ratio column, click the filter arrow, go to numbers filter, and select “between”, and set to between 0 and 0.60.  See the image below for a walk through of steps 2 and 3.

Yield And Payout Screen

The remaining stocks in this spreadsheet have dividend yields of 5% or more and payout ratios below 60%.  This screen reveals small cap high yield income security ideas with reasonable payout ratios for further research.

You now have a solid understanding of how to use the Russell 2000 stocks list to find investment ideas.

The remainder of this article will briefly describe the merits of investing in the Russell 2000 Index before explaining other resources that you can use to find investment ideas.

Why Invest In Stocks From The Russell 2000 Index

As mentioned previously, the Russell 2000 Index contains the domestic U.S. stocks that are ranked 1,001 through 3,000 in descending market capitalization. The Russell 2000 is an excellent benchmark for small-cap stocks. The average market capitalization within the Russell 2000 is $2.1 billion.

Why does this matter? There are a number of advantages to investing in small cap stocks, which we explore in the following video:

Small-cap stocks have historically outperformed large-cap stocks for two reasons.

First of all, small-cap stocks tend to grow more quickly than their larger counterparts. There is simply less competition and more room to grow when your market capitalization is, say, $1 billion when compared to $100 billion.

Secondly, many small-cap securities are outside the investment universes of most institutional investment managers. This creates less demand for shares, which reduces their prices and creates better buying opportunities.

For this reason, there are typically far more mispriced investment opportunities in a small-cap index like the Russell 2000 than a large-cap index like the S&P 500. Investors with a value orientation should keep this in mind when searching for their next purchase opportunity.

Russell 2000 Performance

The Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) generated mediocre total returns of 0.3% in July 2019. This slightly underperformed the S&P 500’s (SPY) returns of 0.6% in July 2019. This means small cap securities in general did not outperform their large cap counterparts in July 2019.

From the start of 2019 through July the Russell 2000 ETF has generated total returns of 17.6%, versus 20.1% for The S&P 500.  Interestingly, small cap stocks have underperformed despite strong overall market gains.

And while the long-term evidence points towards small-cap stocks outperforming over the long run, that has not been the case over the last decade when comparing IWM to SPY.  The image below shows the total returns of both over the last 10 years, ending July 31st, 2019.

10 Year Total Returns IWM vs SPY

Source: YCharts

Over the time period above, the S&P 500 ETF has generated total returns of 268% versus 225% for the Russell 2000 ETF.  This is a counter-intuitive finding.  We expect small-cap stocks to slightly outperform over the long run going forward.

Final Thoughts & Further Reading

The Russell 2000 Index List is an excellent place to look for small-cap investment opportunities. However, it is not the only place where excellent investments can be found.

If you’re looking for exposure to stable large-cap stocks with solid dividend growth prospects, the following databases will prove more useful than the Russell 2000 Index List:

Alternatively, you may be looking for dividend stocks that come from a certain sector of the stock market.

If that is indeed the case, the following stock databases will be useful:

And you can see our coverage of other indices at the links below:

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