best small-cap stocks to buy in 2022

The large-capitalization S&P 500 index generated a total return of 28.7% in 2021, while the Russell 2000 small-cap index total return was just 14.8%. Bank of America analyst Jill Carey Hall says small-cap stocks became about 9% more attractive relative to large-cap stocks from a valuation perspective last year, and small-cap stocks are now cheap relative to large-cap stocks “across every metric…