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Best profitable small-cap stocks for 2026: positive net income, ROE 12+
Most small-cap screens surface unprofitable hopefuls. The cohort below inverts that — small-cap names ($300M to $2B market cap) that are already profitable, generating real returns on equity, and carrying enough current assets to weather a downturn. This is the small-cap subset that institutional investors actually hold. Each name still carries small-cap volatility and liquidity risk, so the position-sizing rules in each ticker's full report (covered in the per-stock /risks tab) become more important than usual.
How we picked: Cohort: market cap between $300M and $2B, positive net income, ROE at least 12%, current ratio at least 1.5. Sorted by market cap descending.