Small Cap Stocks To Follow Now - October 21st

Key Points

• The five small-cap stocks to watch this week are Beyond Meat, Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. II, Minerva Neurosciences, Veritex, and Spring Valley Acquisition.
• Beyond Meat specializes in plant-based meat products, while Minerva Neurosciences is focused on treatments for central nervous system diseases.
• Small-cap stocks typically represent companies with market values between $300 million and $2 billion, offering higher growth potential but also greater risk.

Beyond Meat, Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. II, Minerva Neurosciences, Veritex, and Spring Valley Acquisition are the five Small Cap stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Small-cap stocks are shares of publicly traded companies with relatively small market capitalizations, often representing younger, niche, or rapidly growing businesses. Investors typically classify small caps as firms with market values roughly between $300 million and $2 billion, which can offer higher growth potential but also tend to have greater volatility, lower liquidity, and higher risk than larger-cap stocks; exact cutoffs vary by index and market. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Small Cap stocks within the last several days.

Beyond Meat (BYND)

Beyond Meat, Inc., a plant-based meat company, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells plant-based meat products in the United States and internationally. The company sells a range of plant-based meat products across the platforms of beef, pork, and poultry. It sells its products through grocery, mass merchandiser, club stores, and natural retailer channels, as well as various food-away-from-home channels, including restaurants, foodservice outlets, and schools.

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Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. II (IPXX)

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Minerva Neurosciences (NERV)

Minerva Neurosciences, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and commercialization of product candidates for the treatment of central nervous system diseases. Its lead product candidate is roluperidone (MIN-101) for the treatment of negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia, currently submitted an New Drug Application (NDA); and MIN-301, a soluble recombinant form of the neuregulin-1b1 protein for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

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Veritex (VBTX)

Veritex Holdings, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Veritex Community Bank that provides various commercial banking products and services to small and medium-sized businesses, and professionals. The company accepts deposit products include demand, savings, money market, and time accounts.

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Spring Valley Acquisition (SV)

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