Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada

The stunning factor behind 88% of Canada’s best-performing stocks since 2016!

They all had this one little, yet all-important factor in common…

It also happens to be our No. 1 investing advantage over Bay Street and Wall Street because, quite simply, they CAN’T effectively use it!

In fact, it’s so powerful that Warren Buffett himself once guaranteed that he could make 50% returns per year, if only he were able to employ this factor in his investing decisions…

Best of all, you’re invited to:

“Test-drive” a proven investing solution from Motley Fool Canada that’s fully focused on this single, vital investment factor…

And enjoy the peace of mind of our ironclad 30-day, Membership-Fee-Back Guarantee, so you can join today and know exactly what you’re getting before you ever risk a dime.

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The Letter

Dear fellow investor,

To say I was dumbstruck when I finally finished poring over the data would be the understatement of the century.

Not to mention that it would ultimately lead me to reevaluate everything I thought I knew about how to uncover those truly life-changing stocks we all dream of uncovering just once… maybe twice in a lifetime.

As a Senior Analyst here at Motley Fool Canada… someone who’s fiercely proud of the track record our team has built for our members… and a deeply committed student of small-cap investing, it was humbling to say the least.

Let me show you why I’m so fired up about this right now…

Instead of boring you with an Excel document, here’s a simple graphic of the 50 highest returning stocks in Canada over a recent decade…

Now look at how many of those initial 50 best-performing stocks DO NOT have one very particular trait associated with them…

JUST SIX COMPANIES LEFT. OUT OF 50!

Data from 2016 to 2026.

When our team dug into the data on the 50 best-performing Canadian stocks from 2016 to 2026, a staggering 44 out of 50 all shared ONE trait in common…

The first thing you’ll notice when I reveal this investing factor to you is how remarkably easy it is to detect.

You, me, or any other everyday investor could identify it within seconds. And in retrospect, it really does seem like such an obvious connection to make.

Yet to my knowledge, we’re the only ones in Canada that have reported on this 88% correlation. And outside of Canada, for that matter.

Because while every Bay Street genius wants to prattle on about everything from a visionary founder… to an unparalleled competitive advantage… to fortunate timing… to a unique culture… to whatever is the key to finding the next big winner…

The cold, hard data clearly shows that this one simple trait is a major factor in being able to uncover the kind of stocks that could make your wildest dreams reality.

I’m talking about truly significant winners like:

Spartan Delta Corp. (TSX: SDE) +25,600.00%
Aya Gold & Silver Inc. (TSX: AYA) +5,782.81%
Amerigo Resources Ltd. (TSX: ARG) +5,538.71%
Uranium Royalty Corp. (TSX: URC) +4,338.89%
Hammond Power Solutions Inc. (TSX: HPS.A) +4,105.24%
Celestica Inc. (TSX: CLS) +3,497.65%
Tenaz Energy Corp. (TSX: TNZ) +3,029.58%
Headwater Exploration Inc. (TSX: HWX) +2,963.64%
Discovery Mining Ltd. (TSX: DSV) +2,611.11%
Trekor Metals Ltd. (TSX:TKM) +1,942.62%

In case you were wondering, that’s a list of the top 10 best-performing Canadian stocks from 2016 to 2026… all 10 of which shared this one trait.

What kind of effect would identifying just one of those stocks have? Well…

From 2016 to 2026, consider that $10,000 invested into Toromont Industries Ltd. (the lowest performing stock of the 10) would have grown to…

$57,987

Amerigo Resources Ltd. (No. 3 on the list) would have turned $10,000 into…

$563,871

And Spartan Delta Corp. – No. 1 on the list, and the kind of winner we all dream of – would have turned your initial $10,000 investment into a mind-blowing…

$2.570 MILLION

Give me a few minutes, and not only will I reveal what this miraculous factor is… I’ll also show you a quick, easy, and incredibly affordable way to begin harnessing it in your own portfolio starting TODAY!

I mean, just think about it. What would you do with even one big winner like that?

Summer Home

Buy that warm summer home in sunny Florida or that ski chalet in Whistler?

Luxury Travel

Jet-set around Europe in first class without a care in the world, or perhaps sail around the Caribbean in your very own personal yacht?

Family Legacy

Put your children, and yes, even your grandchildren through university?

Early Retirement

Or simply speed up your retirement by a decade so you can do whatever it is YOU prefer to do in your leisure time – even if that’s simply kicking back, relaxing, and for once in your life, doing absolutely nothing at all!

Isn’t being able to fundamentally change our lives like that precisely what all of us really want out of our investments?

And if we agree on that, wouldn’t you also agree that those are the exact kind of stocks we should be laser-focused on?

Because, to be quite blunt, if you AREN’T focusing on this specific factor in each and every investing decision that you make, the data clearly shows that you are far less likely to ever hit a home run with any stock you pick.

And that’s exactly why investing in small-cap stocks is so darned important.

Of course, it’s not totally surprising that small-cap stocks have the potential to put up such incredible gains. After all, by definition, they do have plenty of room to run.

Which is why when I saw that data, it actually spurred me to do a little research of my own, just to double-check this wasn’t simply a case of only cherry-picking the highest performers over that last decade.

Amazingly, what I ended up discovering blew me away even more…

You see, not only were 44 out of the 50 best-performing Canadian stocks of the past decade small-cap stocks (including every single stock that made the list of top 10 highest returners)…

But when you zoom out and look at the long-term data, small-cap stocks have consistently beaten large-caps over nearly a century of market history.

Now, I’ll be completely transparent with you. Over the past 15 years, large-cap stocks actually outperformed small-caps. The S&P 500 and its mega-cap darlings have dominated, fueled by a handful of trillion-dollar tech giants and the AI boom. It’s been the longest streak of large-cap outperformance on record.

But here’s the thing: that streak is precisely why right now might be the single best time in a generation to invest in small-caps.

As of early 2026, small-cap stocks are trading at a roughly 30% valuation discount to large-caps on a forward price-to-earnings basis. That gap is near a historic low – one that we haven’t seen since the buildup to the tech bubble in the late 1990s. And we all know what happened next: small-caps went on a seven-year tear that left large-caps in the dust.

And the early signs of a repeat are already showing up. In the first two months of 2026, the Russell 2000 has surged ahead of the S&P 500, with small-cap value stocks up nearly 6% while large-cap growth has barely budged. Wall Street is calling it the “Great Rotation” – a historic shift of capital away from overvalued mega-cap tech and into the kind of under-the-radar, domestically focused businesses that thrive in the small-cap universe.

Major institutions are piling in. Bank of America is forecasting small-cap earnings growth of 17% versus just 14% for large-caps. Vanguard’s 2026 outlook sees significantly more upside potential in small-caps. And the February Global Fund Manager Survey from Bank of America showed that institutional investors are now the most overweight small-caps relative to large-caps since 2021.

Zoom out to the longest timeframe available, and the picture becomes absolutely crystal clear.

From 1927 through 2025 in the U.S., small-cap stocks have beaten large-caps by an average of roughly 2.85% per year. And while that gap may not seem that significant at first blush, over decades that seemingly small advantage compounds into a truly staggering difference:

(Since 1927, the S&P 500’s average annual gain of 10.37% would have turned $100 into $1.75 million. Small-caps would have compounded into many times that figure.)

And for every rolling 10-year window going back to 1927, small-caps beat large-caps two-thirds of the time.

But here’s the real kicker: cycles of large-cap and small-cap outperformance have historically lasted 6 to 16 years. We’re now 15 years into the current large-cap cycle – matching the longest on record. Every previous cycle eventually reversed. And with small-cap valuations near generational lows while their earnings growth is accelerating past large-caps for the first time in years, the spring is coiled tighter than ever.

The results are clear. Historically, the performance of small-cap and large-cap stocks isn’t even in the same universe. Small-caps blow large-caps out of the water.

Small-cap versus large-cap performance chart — Chart refers to US market and dollars

Meet the Author

On that note, please allow me a proper introduction…

My name is Nick Sciple, and as I said earlier, I’m a Senior Analyst here at Motley Fool Canada. And like you, I’m a hard-working investor who’s always on the lookout for ways to grow the money I’ve made into the wealth I want…

Mostly just so that I can help set my family up for a lifetime of comfort and security. But also, if I’m being completely honest, so that I can make a few of my own lifelong dreams finally come true.

Which is why I jumped at the chance to come work at a company like The Motley Fool — where I could not only earn money, but also discover the very best ways to put that money to work for me.

After discovering first-hand the incredible power of small-cap stocks – not to mention that it’s statistically improbable to find true home-run winners if you aren’t investing in small-caps – I’ve seen how this approach can completely transform a portfolio.

My guess is after reading this, you may want to consider it as well!

But even if you’d prefer not to take my word for all of this, I bet you’ll take the word of the greatest investor in the history of the world:

That’s legendary Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett as he described how much money he could make per year if he were able to do nothing more than invest in small-cap stocks.

Not personal relationships with the founder, CEO, or anybody on the executive leadership team…
Not getting a glimpse at some magical insider financial document…
Not the ability to privately tour a company’s facilities and interact with their employees in person…

Nope, nothing more than, “If I could invest in small-caps, I’d return 50% per year.”

— Warren Buffett

That’s the playground I want to play in! Unfortunately, because Berkshire Hathaway is worth well over $1 trillion, they simply have too much money to meaningfully invest in small-cap stocks. After all, small-caps in Canada can be anywhere from roughly $50 million to below $2 billion.

Not only do a lot of these smaller companies have extremely limited trading volume, but even if Berkshire was able to buy shares in a meaningful way, the effect of a massive share price increase would barely move the needle on his billions.

Which brings me to…

Our No. 1 – and perhaps our only – investing advantage over Bay Street and Wall Street!

Because if small-caps are too tiny for Berkshire’s billions, imagine how much of a problem they pose for Bay Street and Wall Street’s trillions.

It’s not even worthwhile for most institutional investors to play in the small-cap pond!

It’s no wonder that in addition to his earlier quote, Buffett also said:

“It’s a huge structural advantage NOT to have a lot of money.”

—Warren Buffett

Lucky for you and me both, we don’t have that problem!

So not only can we potentially reap the benefits of small-cap stocks as much as we’d like, we can do so knowing that these companies are largely under-followed or even completely untouched by the investing industry at large.

It’s like our very own personal “small-cap investing playground,” that only everyday investors like us can be a part of.

Of course, just because the stocks inside the playground are small, that doesn’t mean the playground itself is.

In fact, there are thousands of small-cap stocks in Canada alone, across both the TSX and the TSX Venture Exchange – and thousands more in the U.S. across its various exchanges.

Keep in mind, a lot of those are companies that have remained small-caps precisely because they have rubbish businesses…

Others are so volatile and unpredictable that they’re equally as likely to go bankrupt as they are to be a sound, long-term investment…

And still others are so tiny that it’s basically impossible to know much of anything about their business at all!

Point being, it’s not like you can simply scroll through a list of stocks and look for the ones that happen to be small-caps, or you’re probably going to be tossing good money into a fiery pit.

You have to know how to find the RIGHT small-caps, using the RIGHT strategy and the RIGHT philosophy. And even then, results are not guaranteed.

Given not only that, but everything else we’ve talked about today, it really isn’t surprising that 4 out of 5 Motley Fool Canada readers just like you told us they’d be sincerely interested in an exclusively small-cap investing solution from us here at Motley Fool Canada…

Including guidance on precisely which small-cap stocks we think look like they could truly be the next addition to that “Top 10 Best-Performing Stocks of the Past Decade” list I shared above… and which ones you should steer away from.

Which is why it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada took months of planning and preparation along with endless hours of intensive research. Since launching in early 2018, members have had access to some truly outstanding small-cap stocks across a 9-year track record spanning multiple market cycles – including the COVID crash, the 2022 bear market, and the strong recovery of 2023-2025.

And the really good news is that as per usual here at Motley Fool Canada, we are offering our ironclad 30-day, “Full-Membership-Fee-Back Guarantee.”

Ironclad 30-Day Full-Membership-Fee-Back Guarantee

All members joining through this special invitation are covered by The Motley Fool’s Full-Membership-Fee-Back Guarantee… which makes it possible starting TODAY for you to spend an entire month as a full-fledged member of Hidden Gems Canada in order to make sure it’s the right fit for you! Then, if for ANY reason you aren’t totally convinced by everything you see inside the gates of Motley Fool Canada’s dedicated small-cap investing solution? Simply contact us by Day 30 of your membership, and we’ll happily refund your membership fee in full. No cable company run-around. No hard feelings. No risk to your membership fee whatsoever.

That said, you won’t even have to wait a SINGLE day to begin investing the Hidden Gems Canada way.

Because we already have a highly-vetted list of 216 small-cap stock recommendations available right now on our private, members-only website – each accompanied by a comprehensive, deep-dive stock write-up straight from our analyst team, including…

An exploration of the company’s business model, and how that business model could change as the company continues to grow…
A thorough, yet easy-to-understand financial breakdown…
An examination of the company’s overall market opportunity, including why we love their potential upside as a small-cap company…
A full list of risk factors and threats to keep an eye on in the years and decades ahead…
…and much, much more.

And over 9 years of navigating every kind of market, the small-cap investing strategy we employ in this service has helped us deliver winners like:

TerraVest Industries (TSX: TVK) – up over +300% since we recommended it on June 15, 2023.
AerCap (NYSE: AER) – up over +500% since we recommended it on May 15, 2020.
Turning Point Brands (NYSE: TPB) – up over +145% since we recommended it on June 19, 2020.
International Petroleum (TSX: IPCO) – up over +520% since we recommended it on June 18, 2021.
Kits Eyecare (TSX: KITS) – up over +330% since we recommended it on February 17, 2023.

Those sorts of returns are no small feat across a portfolio spanning nearly a decade of market cycles…

And remember, with our 30-day “Membership-Fee-Back Guarantee,” you can of course simply join today, read through each one, and then cancel your membership and end up with a full refund to your membership fee!

So if you’re ready to get started right away and access our entire collection of small-cap stock recommendations within the walls of Hidden Gems Canada, then just click the button below now to get started today!

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Here’s what the average month will look like as a Hidden Gems Canada member!

While it’s true that our Hidden Gems Canada team has indeed already built an extensive library of over 216 small-cap recommendations (which are currently waiting for you as we speak), it’s not like they’re going to be slowing down any time soon.

In fact, they’re already busily preparing for the rest of the year (and beyond) as we speak. So have a look at what your average month in the life will look like, should you choose to join us as a Hidden Gems Canada member.

1st Friday of Every Month: Official U.S. Small-Cap Recommendation

You’ll receive the exact same quality and depth of coverage when our team officially reveals this month’s No. 1 Hidden Gem from the U.S.

2nd Friday of Every Month: “Potential Gems” Stocks Update

These are where we put the companies our team has done a massive amount of research on and has a high confidence in, but for various reasons they aren’t quite ready to formally recommend to Hidden Gems Canada members quite yet. The valuation may be a bit too high. There could be rumours we’re waiting to sort out. A key executive may have just exited the company and our team wants to see who the replacement is.

3rd Friday of Every Month: A Canadian Small-Cap Recommendation

After weeks of poring over hundreds of potential stock picks, our team will release a formal BUY notification of their No. 1 Canadian small-cap stock for new money now, along with a comprehensive write-up accompanying it on our private Hidden Gems Canada members-only website. And of course, you’ll be sent an urgent email alert the second the recommendation is live!

4th Friday of Every Month: Best Buys Now

The team reviews the collection of recommendations and arrives at what we believe are the best ideas for new money, right now – in addition to our most recent recommendations.

5th Friday of Every Month (if Applicable): Fifth Friday Shenanigans!

When there’s a fifth Friday in the month, we bring you something special – bonus content such as crucial updates on our current recommendations, video interviews with key C-level executives, podcasts with the entire analyst team, interactive live chats, and more!

A Clear Friday-by-Friday Monthly Rhythm

1Official U.S. Small-Cap Recommendation

2“Potential Gems” Stocks Update

3Canadian Small-Cap Recommendation

4Best Buys Now

5Bonus Content When Applicable

In Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada, you’ll never spend the entire month sitting around and waiting for new recommendations. We have regularly scheduled programming coming out every week, and will have loads of other great content dropping daily!

But here’s one of the best parts of the opportunity you have in front of you today…

If you join right now, you’ll be able to join our Hidden Gems Canada members just in time to access our brand-new small-cap recommendation about to be released… AND the one we most recently released!

Meet our all-star Hidden Gems Canada analyst team!

Of course, there’s no doubt that perhaps more than any other investing style, small-cap investing relies on an analyst team with an intricate and nuanced understanding of the specific investing landscape of each country they’re looking at.

And because Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada targets both Canadian and U.S. small-caps, we thought it only right to have both Canadian and American analysts!

Nick Sciple – Senior Analyst

Nick is a native of Mobile, Alabama, about as far from Canada as you can get. Before joining the Fool, he attended the University of Alabama for both undergrad and law school, where he built on his lifetime fandom for college sports. In law school, a close friend suggested that he read Peter Lynch’s One Up on Wall Street. From there, he was hooked on investing, which combined the analytical skills he learned in law school with his lifelong love for probability-based games like poker and sports betting (with MUCH better odds). From there, he found the Motley Fool suite of podcasts and the rest is history. Before joining Fool Canada in June 2021, Nick spent 3 years as an editor and Bureau Chief for Fool.com covering Tech, Energy, and Industrial topics.

Jim Gillies – Lead Advisor

Jim Gillies is Motley Fool Canada’s Senior Analyst. A dyed-in-the-wool value investor and lover of small equities, Jim also supplements his prudent portfolio with opportunistic options strategies. He believes that if you can’t tell a story with numbers, it’s probably not worth telling. When not playing with financial matters, he’s honing his amateur chef skills, mashing around the country on one of his bikes, or futilely anticipating the return to glory of the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Islanders (it’s been a long wait).

Iain Butler – Chief Investment Advisor

Iain Butler is Chief Investment Advisor for the Motley Fool Canada and is the Lead Advisor on its flagship Stock Advisor Canada product and Co-Advisor for Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada.

Before joining the Fool, Iain was a “buy-side” analyst and through this experience is well-versed in the idiosyncratic ways of the Canadian market. His investing interests are centred on scouring the market for interesting businesses that trade at reasonable prices and offer an appealing risk/reward relationship. Since joining the Fool in 2012, Iain dedicates each day to spreading Foolishness throughout this great country!

So with some of the best and brightest of both our U.S. and Canadian analysts, you can see why I think this may very well be the single most talented cast of investors we’ve ever assembled on one Motley Fool Canada service. An all-star team indeed!

But in our estimation, that’s simply what a tricky, yet often incredibly lucrative, focus on small-cap investing requires.

And make no mistake about it, our team’s goal is nothing short of finding largely unheard-of stocks that will change your life forever over the next 5… 10… and yes, even 25 years.

“Are you all aware that Jim Gillies Value Show is the best and quirkiest investing show online? I love Monday and Friday mornings at the Fool and, of course, the Value Show. You all help make investing fun and manageable.”

— Jason

How much do you think it’s worth to join Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada today?

If you’ve ever done any research on premium small-cap investment products before, you may already be expecting Hidden Gems Canada to run you upwards of a thousand dollars per year, if not more…

But don’t worry, you won’t have to pay thousands of dollars… or even a thousand dollars to become a member of Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada today.

A small sample of everything you get from membership to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada!

Our “Treasure Chest” of Over 216 Recommendations:

The stocks that our expert analysts have picked since we first launched in early 2018 – all of which are currently awaiting you RIGHT NOW on our members-only page, each accompanied by a comprehensive write-up.

2 Brand-New Monthly Recommendations:

One official Canadian and one U.S. small-cap recommendation each month, like clockwork.

Premium Hub:

Where you’ll be able to peruse the wide assortment of video interviews and other multimedia content that Hidden Gems Canada places a greater emphasis on than any other Motley Fool Canada service. Some of our content includes a one-on-one interview with Jeff Schellenberg, CEO of Decisive Dividend, and more!

Private, Members-Only Message Boards:

Where you can discuss your favourite small-cap stocks… general investing… or even day-to-day life with your fellow members, as well as our entire Hidden Gems Canada team.

Regular Updates:

So you can always be the first to know about important developments affecting the companies our team has recommended.

“Watch List” and Best Buys Now:

Full access to both Hidden Gems Canada’s official “Potential Gems” watch list and “Best Buys Now” list, so you’ll always be clued into which small-cap stocks the team is considering recommending next and which of their current recommendations they are most excited about right now!

Additional Commentary and Guidance:

Team commentary and general guidance on the topics that affect you most, including everything from macroeconomic concerns to proper diversification to the nuances of small-cap investing.

Bonus Reports

Not to mention a slew of special reports that you’ll have access to the second you join Hidden Gems Canada, such as…

As you’ve likely heard before, we want to give everyday Canadian investors the hard data they need to make informed decisions and grow smarter, happier, and richer now and over the long-term. That’s exactly why we’re offering you Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada.

We dedicated our hard-hitting analysis towards shining a light on what we see as the best opportunities in the small-cap arena right now, including:

Shopify 2.0: The Next Canadian Powerhouse

Motley Fool Canada members were tipped off to Shopify early back in 2016, and the investors who listened have seen their returns skyrocket (+4,876% and counting!).

But now there’s a new Canadian powerhouse on the rise… an under-the-radar stock that some investors are calling “Shopify 2.0.” We think it’ll give your portfolio an instant shot in the arm, and it’s yours FREE when you join Hidden Gems Canada!

3 Small Cap Stocks to Buy in 2026 report cover

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Discover three companies at the forefront of innovation. Small caps are the place to be, and we think these have 10x potential – and we can’t wait for you to meet them!

So remember that by joining today you can…

Immediately access all 216 small-cap stock recommendations our team has ever issued (PLUS enjoy the latest recommendation just released!) …
Grab that bundle of special reports worth hundreds of dollars…
Join our top analysts and thousands of other savvy Canadian investors on the hunt for small-cap, high-reward stocks…
And simply contact us by Day 30 of your membership period if you’re not completely satisfied and we’ll refund your entire membership fee. No questions asked.

Simply click here or scroll down below to fill out the secure order form and you’ll receive complete, unrestricted access to Hidden Gems Canada today.

To your wealth,

Nick Sciple

Senior Analyst

Motley Fool Canada

Data as of 9/30/2026. Trisura Group return updated daily. Fool contributor Iain Butler has positions in Alimentation Couche-Tard, Constellation Software, Magna International, and Shopify. Fool contributor Jim Gillies has positions in AerCap, BioSyent, Constellation Software, International Petroleum, Kits Eyecare, Methanex, Shopify, TerraVest Industries, and Turning Point Brands. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Alimentation Couche-Tard, BioSyent, Kits Eyecare, Shopify, Sylogist, and Tucows. The Motley Fool recommends AerCap, Air Canada, Constellation Software, Dollarama, International Petroleum, Magna International, Methanex, TerraVest Industries, and Turning Point Brands. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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