{"id":5995,"date":"2026-08-18T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/18\/small-cap-stocks-soar-this-etf-hits-a-new-high-amidst-analyst-favor\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:49:08","slug":"small-cap-stocks-soar-this-etf-hits-a-new-high-amidst-analyst-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/18\/small-cap-stocks-soar-this-etf-hits-a-new-high-amidst-analyst-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"Small-Cap Stocks Soar: This ETF Hits a New High Amidst Analyst Favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The small-cap sector is outperforming the broader market, with the Russell 2000 index up 23% year-to-date and hitting fresh highs. The Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows ETF (CALF), focused on companies with high free cash flow, has gained nearly 27% and hit its own record. Several of its holdings, including Ovintiv, AngloGold Ashanti, and Upbound Group, are attracting analyst attention due to strong performance, solid balance sheets, and attractive dividend yields.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/13\/this-small-cap-etf-just-hit-a-fresh-high-and-its-members-have-lots-of-cash-wall-street-likes-these-stocks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small-cap sector is outperforming the broader market, with the Russell 2000 index up 23% year-to-date and hitting fresh highs. The Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows ETF (CALF), focused on companies with high free cash flow, has gained nearly 27% and hit its own record. Several of its holdings, including Ovintiv, AngloGold Ashanti, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108349357-1786647980524-gettyimages-2279687876-ibxiqx17271273.jpeg?v=1786648255&w=914&h=914&ffmt=webp&vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-global-security"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108349357-1786647980524-gettyimages-2279687876-ibxiqx17271273.jpeg?v=1786648255&w=914&h=914&ffmt=webp&vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}