58 Biggest Movers From Yesterday

Gainers

  • Spi Energy Co Ltd SPI shares jumped 1259.2% to close at $14.00 on Wednesday after the company launched a new electric vehicle subsidiary.
  • Laird Superfood, Inc. LSF gained 77.8% to close at $39.11 after pricing its IPO at $22 per share.
  • GoodRx Holdings, Inc. GDRX climbed 53% to close at $50.50 on the first day of trading after its initial public offering. The digital healthcare platform priced 34.6 million shares at $33 each in the IPO.
  • Sunworks, Inc. SUNW shares jumped 50.4% to close at $1.16 on Wednesday after dropping around 8% on Tuesday.
  • JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd JKS surged 21% to close at $33.46 after the company reported upbeat Q2 results and issued strong Q3 sales forecast.
  • Predictive Oncology Inc. POAI shares surged 16.7% to close at $0.9866 after the company secured license for an additional 71 unique ovarian cancer cell lines from Ximbio.
  • American Well Corp AMWL climbed 15.4% to close at $28.50. American Well, last week, priced its IPO at $18 per share.
  • Hilltop Holdings Inc. HTH gained 12.5% to close at $20.46.
  • HireQuest, Inc. HQI climbed 11.1% to close at $7.70.
  • Adicet Bio, Inc. ACET shares gained 10.8% to close at $11.27 after the company disclosed that it has determined not to proceed with its proposed public offering of its common stock announced yesterday.
  • Net Element, Inc. NETE shares rose 10% to close at $6.47.
  • Qutoutiao Inc. QTT gained 10% to close at $2.53. Qutoutiao, on Monday, reported a narrower-than-expected quarterly loss.
  • Maxeon Solar Technologies, Ltd. MAXN shares jumped 9.6% to close at $13.85.
  • NIKE, Inc. NKE surged 8.8% to close at $127.11 after the company reported stronger-than-expected results for its first quarter on Tuesday.
  • i3 Verticals, Inc. IIIV climbed 8.7% to close at $25.00 after Raymond James upgraded the stock from Outperform to Strong Buy and announced a price target of $36 per share.
  • Daqo New Energy Corp. DQ jumped 8.2% to close at $124.52. Solar stocks traded higher today amid better-than-expected earnings out of JinkoSolar and news from SPI Energy of a new electric vehicle subsidiary.
  • MediciNova, Inc. MNOV shares gained 8.1% to close at $5.99 after the company said its intranasal SARS-CoV-2 vaccine prototype for COVID-19, using BC-PIV technology, successfully induced systemic serum IgG and mucosal IgA neutralizing antibodies against the S1 antigen (Ag) of SARS-CoV-2 in mice.
  • Western Digital Corporation WDC rose 6.7% to close at $38.92 after Craig-Hallum upgraded the stock from Hold to Buy and raised its price target from $44 to $62 per share.
  • 9 Meters Biopharma Inc NMTR rose 5.8% to close at $0.7301 after William Blair initiated coverage on the stock with an Outperform and announced a price target of $5 per share.
  • Contura Energy, Inc. CTRA climbed 5.1% to close at $9.10 after rising around 12% on Tuesday.
  • Under Armour Inc UA rose 5% to close at $10.00 in sympathy with Nike after the company reported better-than-expected Q1 results.

 

Check out these big penny stock gainers and losers

Losers

  • AC Immune SA ACIU shares tumbled 45% to close at $4.80 on Wednesday after the company said Roche Holding’s Genentech unit informed top line results from a Phase 2 trial of the anti-Tau antibody, semorinemab, in early Alzheimer's disease, showing the investigational asset did not meet its primary efficacy endpoint as well as two secondary endpoints.
  • Wave Life Sciences Ltd. WVE declined 36.7% to close at $10.02 as the company said it has priced its underwritten public offering of 8.33 million of its ordinary shares at $12 per share. All of the shares in the offering are to be sold by Wave Life Sciences.
  • Usio, Inc. USIO dropped 30.4% to close at $1.58. Usio reported pricing of $8 million underwritten public offering.
  • Aurora Cannabis Inc. ACB shares fell 29.4% to close at $5.17 after the company reported a loss of CA$3.3 billion ($2.5 billion) for the fiscal year. Its Q4 sales declined to C$72.10 million from C$75.20 million year over year. The Canadian pot producer also issued weak revenue forecast for the first quarter.
  • Nikola Corporation NKLA dropped 25.8% to close at $21.15 on continued weakness following a recent short seller report and the departure of the company's Executive Chairman.
  • Wrap Technologies, Inc. WRTC fell 25.4% to close at $6.07. Wrap Technologies highlighted successful deployment of BolaWrap by LaGrange Police Dept. in Georgia. . The September 11th domestic violence encounter was captured on an officer’s body-worn camera.
  • NextDecade Corporation NEXT fell 22.8% to close at $2.98.
  • MICT, Inc. MICT shares dropped 22.1% to close at $3.85.
  • Lithium Americas Corp. LAC declined 21.6% to close at $7.09 Shares of several lithium companies are trading lower after Elon Musk said he isn't concerned about the supply of lithium.
  • Retractable Technologies, Inc. RVP fell 20.7% to close at $6.34 after climbing 17% on Tuesday.
  • Vaccinex, Inc. VCNX declined 19.8% to close at $1.86. Vaccinex, shares dipped around 58% on Tuesday in reaction to an adverse readout.
  • Town Sports International Holdings, Inc. CLUB shares dropped 18.7% to close at $0.20 after declining over 17% on Tuesday. Town Sports International recently filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
  • VivoPower International PLC VVPR fell 18.4% to close at $7.75. Vivopower International, on Monday, announced a non-binding letter on intent to buy a 51% of Tembo 4x4 for $4.7 million.
  • Vaxart, Inc. VXRT fell 17.8% to close at $7.19. Vaxart, last week, announced it received FDA clearance of its IND application for the oral coronavirus vaccine. The company also provided an update to its coronavirus programs.
  • Zogenix, Inc. ZGNX dropped 17.3% to close at $18.68. Zogenix recently announced top-line results from third pivotal Phase 3 trial of FINTEPLA in dravet syndrome.
  • Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. PRTH fell 17.3% to close at $2.53. Priority Technology, earlier during the month, announced it will sell its RentPayment Business to MRI Software.
  • Workhorse Group Inc. WKHS shares declined 16.5% to close at $22.47 amid weakness in other electric vehicle names following Tesla's battery day event.
  • Evogene Ltd. EVGN fell 16.1% to close at $2.91. Evogene, earlier during the month, said it secured $10 million in ARK Investment-lead funding round.
  • RPC, Inc. RES dipped 15.7% to close at $2.52.
  • Albemarle Corporation ALB fell 15.6% to close at $80.42. Evercore ISI Group, on Tuesday, initiated coverage on Albemarle with an Underperform rating and a price target of $86.
  • Stitch Fix, Inc. SFIX dropped 15.5% to close at $26.51 after the company reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss.
  • RAPT Therapeutics, Inc. RAPT shares dropped 15.2% to close at $28.61.
  • Virtu Financial, Inc. VIRT shares declined 15% to close at $22.34 as markets continued to sell off amid tech weakness.
  • Document Security Systems, Inc. DSS tumbled 14.7% to close at $4.48. Document Security Systems, on Tuesday, reiterated its plans for its earlier announced Impact BioMedical share dividend.
  • Quantum Corporation QMCO shares dropped 14.5% to close at $4.18.
  • Clovis Oncology, Inc. CLVS shares declined 14.2% to close at $5.97.
  • PolyMet Mining Corp. PLM fell 13.7% to close at $3.35.
  • Steelcase Inc. SCS declined 13.3% to close at $9.84 after reporting downbeat quarterly sales.
  • NanoVibronix, Inc. NAOV fell 12.5% to close at $1.05 after the company announced a $1.8 million bought deal offering. NanoVibronix shares gained over 103% after the company announced its UroShield received FDA authorization for entry into the USA.
  • Tilray, Inc. TLRY fell 12.4% to close at $4.70. Jefferies, on Monday, upgraded Tilray from Underperform to Hold.
  • Centogene N.V. CNTG shares dropped 12.4% to close at $9.68 after the company announced it has opened a walk-in COVID-19 testing facility at the Düsseldorf airport.
  • Endeavour Silver Corp. EXK declined 12% to close at $3.22.
  • GreenPower Motor Company Inc. GP declined 10.8% to close at $11.50 after short research firm Mariner Research Group issued a negative report 'GreenPower Motor – the wheels on the bus are slowing down.'
  • Tesla, Inc. TSLA dipped 10.3% to close at $380.36. Tesla issued various updates at its highly-anticipated battery day event. However, the market wasn't too impressed with the company’s near-term goals.
  • Alexco Resource Corp. AXU shares declined 6.9% to close at $2.57.
  • S&W Seed Company SANW declined 6.4% to close at $2.65 after reporting Q4 results.
  • Genmab A/S GMAB shares fell 5.6% to close at $36.05 after the company commenced binding arbitration of two matters under license agreement with Janssen.
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