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All asset class mapping comes from Value Line. They use the following asset classes:

Large Cap Stocks Stocks of U.S. companies that have a market capitalization of $4.0 billion or more.

Small Cap Stocks Stocks of U.S. companies that have a market capitalization of under $4.0 billion.

International Stocks Publicly traded stocks of companies based in countries other than the U.S.

Domestic Bonds Government or corporate bonds issued in the U.S.

Cash & Money Market Stable, short-term investments that provide income that rises and falls with short-term interest rates.

Other Investments that cannot be classified as any of the above.

All asset class mapping comes from Value Line, which uses data from various sources to determine the appropriate asset class proportions for each mutual fund. Value Line tracks the percentages each fund holds in stocks, bonds, foreign stocks, and cash by surveying the funds on a quarterly basis.
To determine whether a U.S. stock is large or small cap is difficult because the reported information is not sufficient. By law the actual security holdings must be reported only twice a year. Therefore, when using the latest reported percentage in U.S. stocks, Value Line employs a complex mathematical formula that estimates the breakdown between large and small cap stocks by looking at the pattern of a fund's daily returns and comparing it to the daily returns of large and small cap stock indexes which determine the mix that best explains the fund's behavior. This method is commonly referred to as "Style Attribution Analysis." By using the latest daily returns, Value Line can achieve a more timely—and therefore more accurate—assessment of market cap size than would be possible with the reported holdings alone.

Some stocks are referred to as "Mid Cap" stocks. Domestic stocks can be divided into any number of categories based on size (that is, market capitalization). When financial advisors divide domestic stocks into two categories, they typically use the terms "Large Cap" and "Small Cap." When financial advisors divide domestic stocks into three categories, they typically use the terms "Large Cap," "Mid Cap," and "Small Cap."
Different financial advisors use different market capitalization values to delineate these categories based on size. For the purposes of allocating your assets to achieve a well-diversified portfolio, two size categories for domestic stocks is generally considered sufficient.
Value Line uses $4.0 billion as the market capitalization value to delineate between Large Cap and Small Cap domestic stocks. If you download the asset class for a Mid Cap stock, it will be assigned Large Cap or Small Cap as its asset class, depending on whether its market cap is above or below $4.0 billion.

A security may be classified as Other either because it doesn't fall into any of the downloaded asset classes or because Value Line doesn't have asset class data for that particular security. You can edit the security and change its asset class to something more appropriate. Be sure to clear Download Asset Class Information for that security so your setting is not overwritten.

True Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) fall into the Other category. However, some funds that contain the name "real estate" in them actually hold stock in mortgage companies and other companies related to the real estate industry. These funds have stock, bond, or money market components.