June 04, 2026 | Read online | Stocks & Income goes small caps. Welcome to Invested Early. |
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| | | Hello. | Welcome to the very first edition of Invested Early. | Here's the idea. Our daily Stocks & Income covers the whole market, but the fast-moving small and micro-cap stories often get buried under the mega-cap headlines. Invested Early is where we give those names the room they deserve: the early-stage companies, the overlooked niches, and the under-followed stocks with the most room to run. | A word before we start: small caps are where some of the biggest home runs begin, but you’ll also see a lot of strikeouts. We'll show you both sides. This is the high-risk, high-reward corner of the market, and we'll treat it that way. | Here's what's inside today: | 🧭 Why small caps deserve a seat at the table (and how big a seat)
🇺🇸 The $28 critical-minerals stock that just locked in $1.6 billion from Washington
📊 10 small caps the alternative data says could pop (the full list, on AltIndex)
📈 Top gainers (and biggest losers) today | And did you know that the US plans to quadruple its uranium supply by 2050? Well, here’s a small uranium stock that’s swooping onto the scene. | This is not financial advice. Always do your own research. Past performance doesn't guarantee future results. |
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| | Why Small Caps Matter (and Where They Belong) | Let's start with why we're here. | The biggest funds on Wall Street can't really buy small caps. A $50 billion fund can't take a meaningful position in a $200 million company without owning half of it, so they don't bother. That means the analysts don't cover these names as much, the algorithms can tend to ignore them, and the prices can get sloppy. And sloppy prices are where opportunity lives. | It's also simply where the giant winners tend to start. Nvidia, Netflix, Monster Beverage, every one of them was a small cap somebody overlooked at the start. The next 10x almost never begins as a household name! | Now the other side. Most small caps don't become the next anything. They're more volatile, harder to sell quickly, and many of them dilute shareholders or never turn a profit. | So here's how we'd think about it. Small caps are a small sleeve of a portfolio, not the foundation. For most people that's somewhere in the range of 1% up to maybe 5%, sized so that any single name going to zero wouldn't change your life. Treat each position like a small, deliberate bet: keep them small, expect some to fail, and let the winners run. That's the game. Played well, it only takes a couple of winners to matter. | Now, a $28 critical minerals stock has a very interesting contract with Washington… but first, a uranium stock that’s swooping in as the US plans to quadruple its nuclear power capacity by 2050: |
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| | The $28 Stock That Just Got $1.6 Billion From Washington | Here's a name that shows exactly how far a small cap can travel. A year ago, USA Rare Earth (USAR) was a speculative little story most investors had never heard of. Today it's a $6.85 billion company, and on Tuesday it landed one of the biggest government backstops we've seen for a company this young. | The news: USA Rare Earth finalized agreements with the US Department of Commerce unlocking access to up to $1.6 billion in funding under the CHIPS Program: roughly $277 million in direct federal funding plus up to $1.3 billion in senior secured loan capacity, paid out as the company hits project milestones. Combined with a $1.5 billion private placement it closed in January and earlier raises, USAR now has around $3.5 billion lined up to build out its plans. | Why it matters: The US makes almost none of its own rare earth magnets, the stuff inside EVs, missiles, wind turbines, and just about every piece of advanced hardware. China controls the supply. USA Rare Earth is trying to build an entire "mine-to-magnet" chain on US soil, from its Round Top deposit in Texas to magnet plants in Oklahoma and South Carolina, targeted for 2030. Washington clearly wants this to exist, and is now writing checks to make sure it does. The stock is up roughly 46% over the past three months on the momentum. | The honest risk: This is still a story stock. USA Rare Earth has essentially no revenue yet and posted a $67 million net loss in its latest quarter. The shares have swung between $10.35 and $38.68 in the past year. The $1.6 billion is access to capital tied to milestones, not a check that's cleared. The 2030 timeline is a long time for a lot to go right or wrong. | The setup is genuinely compelling: a real national priority, real government money, and a clear catalyst. Just size it like what it is, a high-risk bet on a company that hasn't built the thing yet. As always, do all your own due diligence. |
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| | 10 Small Caps the Data Says Could Pop | Our partners at AltIndex just put out the exact kind of research that Invested Early is for. They screened thousands of stocks for small caps where everything is lining up at once: accelerating hiring, rising web traffic, insider buying, climbing social-media attention, and improving fundamentals. Ten names cleared the bar. | We're not going to give the whole list away, because the full breakdown is worth reading yourself. But a taste of what's in there: | A pre-revenue energy builder where a multibillion-dollar foreign conglomerate bought over $500 million of stock, putting regular investors in at roughly the same price. A space stock whose Reddit mentions just spiked 2,400% in a month, backed by 68% revenue growth (the same social pattern that flagged GameStop and SanDisk before they ran). A company whose revenue grew so fast year-over-year that the percentage barely fits on the page.
| AltIndex lays out the data behind each one, the AI scores, the catalysts, and the risks. It's the cleanest example we've seen of using alternative data to find small caps before the crowd does. | See all 10 names and the data behind them → |
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| | 🎢 The Small-Cap Scoreboard | Small caps move fast in both directions, so here's where the action is right now. We show you the red just as loudly as the green, because pretending these names only go up is how people get hurt. | 🟢 Today's biggest gainers | | Symbol | Company | Price | Today | Market Cap | 52-Wk |
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ABVX | ABIVAX | $90.15 | +24.3% | $10.1B | +1,006% | NVTS | Navitas Semiconductor | $30.84 | +19.3% | $7.4B | +410% | MMED | MiniMed Group | $14.26 | +15.9% | $3.1B | -22.9% | POET | POET Technologies | $15.38 | +11.3% | $2.3B | +279% | VGNT | Versigent PLC | $49.81 | +10.3% | $2.9B | +65% |
| 🔴 Today's biggest losers | | Symbol | Company | Price | Today | Market Cap | 52-Wk |
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ONDS | Ondas | $11.61 | -14.5% | $4.9B | +635% | LUNR | Intuitive Machines | $33.83 | -14.5% | $5.6B | +211% | MLYS | Mineralys Therapeutics | $25.06 | -13.1% | $2.5B | +60% | EOSE | Eos Energy Enterprises | $8.20 | -13.0% | $3.0B | +109% | XNDU | Xanadu Quantum Technologies | $14.80 | -12.6% | $5.3B | +85% |
| Notice the pattern in that last column. Almost every name here, winner or loser, is still up huge over the past year (ABIVAX is up more than 1,000%!). That's the small-cap deal in one table: enormous runs, and stomach-churning swings to get them. Ondas is the cleanest example. It's one of the names AltIndex flagged as a Reddit winner that ran 8x, and today it's the single biggest loser on the board. Up massive over a year, down 14% in a day. Size these accordingly! | (Data: Yahoo Finance.) |
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| | 🫡 See You Soon | That's the first-ever edition of Invested Early. The goal here is simple: bring you the small-cap stories worth knowing about and show you both the upside and the landmines. | We'll be back soon with more. Did we miss a name you're watching? Hit the reply button and tell us. | Cheers,
— Brandon & Blake of Invested Inc. |
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