Author: Keith Speights, The Motley Fool

With a very bright future, you may want to scoop up and hold onto these names for a long, long time.

Each has the potential to deliver tremendous gains over the next few years.

The future looks promising for all three of these names.

Maybe a bull market is about to begin. Maybe it isn’t. Either way, investing in small-cap stocks now should pay off nicely over the long run.

With fears of a recession rising, two of the three are already outperforming the S&P 500.