Tuesday's Small-Cap Winners & Losers

Updated from 2:24 p.m. EST with new stock prices

Small-cap stocks generally shared the fate of the major indices Tuesday, giving back early-morning gains later in the day. The Russell 2000 Index and the S&P SmallCap 600 were both down more than 3% at 766.27 and 398.25, respectively.

Among the day's biggest gainers was 4Kids Entertainment (KDE). The New York children's entertainment company announced the Dec. 15 release of its Chaotic Trading Card Game. The multiplatform trading card game had a successful run in hobby shops, spurring expansion into f.y.e. and Suncoast stores nationwide, 4Kids said in a press release. Shares rose 6.2% to $12.78 in recent trading.

A game company of a different sort, Austin's Multimedia Games (MGAM) saw shares rise 6.6% to $9.38 on a solid rise in fiscal fourth-quarter earnings. The maker of instant scratch tickets and video-gaming terminals posted income of $1.4 million, or 5 cents a share, vs. $100,000, or zero cents a share, in the year-ago period.

On the losing side, Houston's NCI Building Systems (NCS) dropped 21.4% to $28.12 after reporting its fiscal fourth-quarter 2007 results. NCI reported a profit of $25.4 million, or $1.27 a share, compared with $28.1 million, or $1.33 a share, in the year-ago quarter. Excluding items, the company earned $1.30 a share in the fourth quarter, short of the $1.59 analysts were expecting. Revenue was $463.4 million, vs. $498.5 million a year ago. The company also guided for 2008 EPS between $3.35 and $3.70, short of analysts' mean expectation of $4.18.