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3 Top Small-Cap Stocks to Buy in August

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Want to hear a secret to success in investing that not everyone knows? Buy small-cap stocks. Between 1926 and 2006, small-cap stocks delivered a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.7% while the S&P 500 index generated an average return of 10.4%. And small-cap stocks have been neck and neck with the S&P 500 in total performance since 2006.

With this in mind, we asked three Motley Fool contributors to identify the top small-cap stocks they like right now. Here's why they picked Changyou.com (NASDAQ: CYOU), Gladstone Land Corporation (NASDAQ: LAND), and Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX).

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