Here are the best – and worst – performing IPOs of FY22

Only 44 out of the 198 IPOs this financial year are trading above their listing price
8 fresh listees for FY22 were trading up 100% since they hit the bourse
A whopping 149 IPOs are trading down between 3%-92%

A massive 198 new stocks hit the ASX in FY22 – and it’s no surprise the top performers were in the materials or mining sector.

Only 44 IPOs are trading above their listing price and 37 are those are mining.

But to be fair, they also make up a solid portion (84 to be exact) of the 149 stocks trading down 3-92% since listing.

Here’s how all the FY22 IPOs are tracking:

Code	Company	Listing Price	Price Today	Percentage Change	Sector
NC1	Nicoresourceslimited	0.2	0.775	288%	Materials
AR1	Australresources	0.2	0.625	213%	Materials
KNI	Kunikolimited	0.2	0.57	185%	Materials
GT1	Greentechnology	0.25	0.58	132%	Materials
PGO	Pacgold	0.25	0.58	132%	Materials
SXG	Southern Cross Gold	0.2	0.445	123%	Materials
NIM	Nimyresourceslimited	0.2	0.43	115%	Materials
CPM	Coopermetalslimited	0.2	0.41	105%	Materials
CLG	Close Loop	0.2	0.39	95%	Commercial & Professional Services
CHR	Charger Metals	0.2	0.37	85%	Materials
BRX	Belararoxlimited	0.2	0.345	73%	Materials
IND	Industrialminerals	0.2	0.325	63%	Materials
MMA	Maronanmetalslimited	0.2	0.325	63%	Materials
CNR	Cannon Resources	0.2	0.32	60%	Materials
RRR	Revolverresources	0.2	0.31	55%	Materials
EV1	Evolutionenergy	0.2	0.305	53%	Materials
FEG	Far East Gold	0.2	0.305	53%	Materials
LPM	Lithium Plus	0.25	0.38	52%	Materials
AQN	Aquirianlimited	0.2	0.3	50%	Commercial & Professional Services
FRE	Firebrickpharma	0.2	0.3	50%	Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences
IG6	Internationalgraphit	0.2	0.3	50%	Materials
LYN	Lycaonresources	0.2	0.3	50%	Materials
GRE	Greentechmetals	0.2	0.28	40%	Materials
ITM	Itech Minerals Ltd	0.2	0.28	40%	Materials
ATA	Atturralimited	0.5	0.7	40%	Materials
IPG	Ipd Group	1.2	1.655	38%	Capital Goods
SPD	Southernpalladium	0.5	0.65	30%	Materials
AR3	Austrare	0.3	0.375	25%	Materials
AS2	Askarimetalslimited	0.2	0.25	25%	Materials
MPG	Manypeaksgoldlimited	0.2	0.25	25%	Materials
VMM	Viridismining	0.2	0.25	25%	Materials
IR1	Irismetals	0.2	0.245	23%	Materials
LRV	Larvottoresources	0.2	0.245	23%	Materials
WIN	Widgienickellimited	0.2	0.245	23%	Materials
BVR	Bellavistaresources	0.2	0.23	15%	Materials
1AE	Auroraenergymetals	0.2	0.225	13%	Materials
VSL	Vulcan Steel	7.1	7.92	12%	Materials
FTL	Firetail Resources	0.25	0.275	10%	Materials
RWL	Rubicon Water	1	1.1	10%	Technology Hardware & Equipment
CPO	Culpeominerals	0.2	0.215	7%	Materials
REC	Rechargemetals	0.2	0.21	5%	Materials
NOL	Nobleoak Life Ltd	1.95	2.04	5%	Insurance
PR1	Pureresourceslimited	0.2	0.205	2%	Materials
TEE	Topendenergylimited	0.2	0.205	2%	Energy
MMG	Monger Gold Ltd	0.2	0.2	0%	Materials
NNL	Nordicnickellimited	0.25	0.25	0%	Materials
OSM	Osmondresources	0.2	0.2	0%	Materials
SLH	Silk Logistics	2	2	0%	Transportation
TLC	The Lottery Corp	4.6	4.58	0%	Consumer Services
CVR	Cavalierresources	0.2	0.195	-3%	Materials
SSH	Sshgroupltd	0.2	0.195	-3%	Commercial & Professional Services
WR1	Winsome Resources	0.2	0.195	-3%	Materials
SHA	Shape Aust Corp Ltd	1.96	1.89	-4%	Capital Goods
CDO	CDO Opportunity Fund	2.52	2.42	-4%	Diversified Financials
29M	29Metalslimited	2	1.92	-4%	Materials
NXG	Nexgenenergycanada	5.6	5.32	-5%	Materials
AII	Almontyindustriesinc	1	0.95	-5%	Materials
LRD	Lordresourceslimited	0.2	0.19	-5%	Materials
MM1	Midasmineralsltd	0.2	0.19	-5%	Materials
SLB	Stelarmetalslimited	0.2	0.19	-5%	Materials
BST	Best & Less	2.16	2.03	-6%	Retaiing
BMM	Balkanminingandmin	0.2	0.185	-8%	Materials
CSF	Catalanoseafoodltd	0.2	0.185	-8%	Food, Beverage & Tobaco
OPN	Oppenneg	0.2	0.185	-8%	Commercial & Professional Services
ALV	Alvomin	0.25	0.225	-10%	Materials
CMO	Cosmometalslimited	0.2	0.18	-10%	Materials
HAR	Harangaresources	0.2	0.18	-10%	Materials
HVY	Heavymineralslimited	0.2	0.18	-10%	Materials
PNT	Panthermetalsltd	0.2	0.18	-10%	Materials
WTN	Winton Land	3.89	3.45	-11%	Real Estate
VNT	Ventiaservicesgroup	2.75	2.43	-12%	Capital Goods
AVD	Avada Group Limited	1	0.88	-12%	Commercial & Professional Services
DRM	Demetallicalimited	0.25	0.22	-12%	Materials
PBL	Parabellumresources	0.2	0.175	-13%	Materials
UVA	Uvrelimited	0.2	0.175	-13%	Materials
USQ	Us Student Housing R	1.38	1.2	-13%	Real Estate
Z2U	Zoom2Utechnologies	0.2	0.17	-15%	Software & Services
5EA	5Eadvanced	2.78	2.35	-15%	Materials
BMR	Ballymore Resources	0.2	0.165	-18%	Materials
LDR	Lode Resources	0.2	0.165	-18%	Materials
NHE	Nobleheliumlimited	0.2	0.165	-18%	Energy
REM	Remsensetechnologies	0.2	0.165	-18%	Capital Goods
SNX	Sierra Nevada Gold	0.5	0.41	-18%	Materials
REP	REP Essential Prop	1	0.8	-20%	Real Estate
AW1	Americanwestmetals	0.2	0.16	-20%	Materials
EQN	Equinoxresources	0.2	0.16	-20%	Materials
SLS	Solsticeminerals	0.2	0.16	-20%	Materials
SDR	Siteminder	5.06	3.93	-22%	Software & Services
CMX	Chemxmaterials	0.2	0.155	-23%	Materials
OD6	Od6Metalsltd	0.2	0.155	-23%	Materials
SRR	Saramaresourcesltd	0.2	0.155	-23%	Materials
PXA	Pexagroup	17.13	13.17	-23%	Real Estate
NPR	Newmark Property	1.9	1.44	-24%	Real Estate
KLI	Killiresources	0.2	0.15	-25%	Materials
KNG	Kingsland Minerals	0.2	0.15	-25%	Materials
LYK	Lykosmetalslimited	0.2	0.15	-25%	Materials
TMB	Tambourahmetals	0.2	0.15	-25%	Materials
HCW	Hlthcohcwellnsreit	2	1.495	-25%	Real Estate
APM	APM Human Services	3.55	2.64	-26%	Commercial & Professional Services
TG6	Tgmetalslimited	0.2	0.145	-28%	Materials
WA1	Wa1Resourcesltd	0.2	0.145	-28%	Materials
IMI	Infinitymining	0.2	0.14	-30%	Materials
KOB	Kobaresourceslimited	0.2	0.14	-30%	Materials
LGM	Legacy Minerals	0.2	0.14	-30%	Materials
NFL	Norfolkmetalslimited	0.2	0.14	-30%	Materials
PFE	Panteraminerals	0.2	0.14	-30%	Materials
LLL	Leolithiumlimited	0.7	0.485	-31%	Materials
E79	E79Goldmineslimited	0.2	0.135	-33%	Materials
QAL	Qualitaslimited	2.5	1.68	-33%	Real Estate
WMG	Western Mines	0.2	0.1325	-34%	Materials
C1X	Cosmosexploration	0.2	0.13	-35%	Materials
EMS	Eastern Metals	0.2	0.13	-35%	Materials
OM1	Omnia Metals Group	0.2	0.13	-35%	Materials
XPN	Xpon Technologies	0.2	0.13	-35%	Software & Services
GQG	GQG Partners	2.2	1.41	-36%	Diversified Financials
G50	Gold50Limited	0.25	0.16	-36%	Materials
AUE	Aurumresources	0.2	0.125	-38%	Materials
MAP	Microbalifesciences	0.45	0.275	-39%	Health Care Equipment & Services
JDO	Judo Cap Holdings	2.1	1.265	-40%	Banks
ALO	Alloggio Group	0.2	0.12	-40%	Consumer Services
FRS	Forrestaniaresources	0.2	0.12	-40%	Materials
M3M	M3Mininglimited	0.2	0.12	-40%	Materials
MMC	Mitremining	0.2	0.12	-40%	Materials
MTM	Mtmongerresources	0.2	0.12	-40%	Materials
PIM	Pinnacleminerals	0.2	0.12	-40%	Materials
RBX	Resource B	0.2	0.12	-40%	Materials
RON	Roninresourcesltd	0.2	0.12	-40%	Materials
FXG	Felix Gold Limited	0.2	0.115	-43%	Materials
NIS	Nickelsearch	0.2	0.115	-43%	Materials
NYM	Narryermetalslimited	0.2	0.115	-43%	Materials
RB6	Rubixresources	0.2	0.115	-43%	Materials
VTX	Vertexmin	0.2	0.115	-43%	Materials
WC1	Westcobarmetals	0.2	0.115	-43%	Materials
C79	Chrysoscorpltd	6.5	3.7	-43%	Commercial & Professional Services
LIS	Lisenergylimited	0.85	0.48	-44%	Capital Goods
CUS	Coppersearchlimited	0.35	0.195	-44%	Materials
C29	C29Metalslimited	0.2	0.11	-45%	Materials
RLF	Rlfagtechltd	0.2	0.11	-45%	Materials
TBN	Tamboran	0.4	0.22	-45%	Energy
SQ2	Block	180	98.5	-45%	Software & Services
1VG	Victory Goldfields	0.2	0.105	-48%	Materials
AE1	Aerison	0.2	0.105	-48%	Capital Goods
BTN	Butn Limited	0.2	0.105	-48%	Diversified Financials
HMG	Hamelingoldlimited	0.2	0.105	-48%	Materials
MI6	Minerals260Limited	0.5	0.26	-48%	Materials
PEB	Pacific Edge	1.2	0.62	-48%	Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences
DUN	Dundasminerals	0.2	0.1	-50%	Materials
KAL	Kalgoorliegoldmining	0.2	0.1	-50%	Materials
MBX	Myfoodieboxlimited	0.2	0.1	-50%	Food & Staples Retailing
SMS	Starmineralslimited	0.2	0.1	-50%	Materials
LKY	Locksleyresources	0.2	0.099	-51%	Materials
DRA	DRA Global Limited	3.95	1.95	-51%	Capital Goods
BME	Blackmountainenergy	0.2	0.098	-51%	Energy
BUR	Burleyminerals	0.2	0.096	-52%	Materials
DAL	Dalaroometalsltd	0.2	0.095	-53%	Materials
DMM	Dmcmininglimited	0.2	0.095	-53%	Materials
HPC	Thehydration	0.29	0.135	-53%	Household & Personal Products
APS	Allup Silica Ltd	0.2	0.09	-55%	Materials
OMX	Orangeminerals	0.2	0.09	-55%	Materials
OZZ	OZZ Resources	0.2	0.09	-55%	Materials
SLM	Solismineralsltd	0.2	0.09	-55%	Materials
CTQ	Careteq Limited	0.2	0.089	-56%	Health Care Equipment & Services
AYA	Artryalimited	1.35	0.595	-56%	Health Care Equipment & Services
WGR	Westerngoldresources	0.2	0.084	-58%	Materials
S3N	Sensore Ltd	0.85	0.355	-58%	Materials
BBT	Bluebet Holdings Ltd	1.14	0.46	-60%	Consumer Services
BIO	Biome Australia Ltd	0.2	0.08	-60%	Household & Personal Products
FAL	Falconmetalsltd	0.5	0.2	-60%	Materials
KNB	Koonenberrygold	0.2	0.08	-60%	Materials
FDR	Finder	0.2	0.079	-61%	Energy
ROC	Rocketboots	0.2	0.076	-62%	Software & Services
X2M	X2M Connect Limited	0.25	0.094	-62%	Technology Hardware & Equipment
ATV	Activeportgroupltd	0.2	0.075	-63%	Software & Services
EQS	Equitystorygroupltd	0.2	0.075	-63%	Diversified Financials
AMM	Armada Metals	0.2	0.071	-65%	Materials
EBR	EBR Systems	1.08	0.37	-66%	Health Care Equipment & Services
ABE	Ausbondexchange	0.65	0.21	-68%	Diversified Financials
CU6	Clarity Pharma	1.4	0.45	-68%	Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences
RTH	Ras Tech	1.5	0.475	-68%	Commercial & Professional Services
M2M	Mtmalcolmminesnl	0.2	0.063	-69%	Materials
TVL	Touch Ventures	0.4	0.125	-69%	Diversified Financials
OXT	Orexploretechnologie	0.25	0.075	-70%	Commercial & Professional Services
T3K	Tek Ocean Group	0.5	0.15	-70%	Energy
E33	East 33 Limited.	0.2	0.056	-72%	Food, Beverage & Tobaco
DBO	Diabloresources	0.2	0.055	-73%	Materials
RAD	Radiopharm	0.6	0.15	-75%	Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences
BEZ	Besragoldinc	0.2	0.05	-75%	Materials
MRI	Myrewardsinternation	0.2	0.05	-75%	Commercial & Professional Services
BDX	Bcaldiagnostics	0.25	0.06	-76%	Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences
BDT	Birddog	0.65	0.15	-77%	Technology Hardware & Equipment
PLG	Pearlgullironlimited	0.2	0.042	-79%	Materials
HAL	Halo Technologies	1.2	0.245	-80%	Diversified Financials
TRP	Tissue Repair	1.15	0.23	-80%	Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences
W2V	Way2Vatltd	0.2	0.035	-83%	Software & Services
STP	Step One Limited	1.53	0.255	-83%	Retaiing
LDX	Lumos Diagnostics	1.25	0.125	-90%	Health Care Equipment & Services
B4P	Beforepay Group	3.41	0.28	-92%	Diversified Financials
GFN	Gefen Int	1	0.077	-92%	Software & Services

The biggest IPO winners for FY22:

NICO RESOURCES (ASX:NC1)

Listing Price: $0.20

Current Price: $0.75

The cobalt-nickel spinout from tin producer Metals X (ASX:MLX) – is now trading up a massive 288% at $0.75 per share.

Part of the reason could be the commodity focus.

NiCo owns one of the largest, undeveloped cobalt-nickel projects in the world, the Wingellina project in WA.

And nickel and cobalt are both in very high demand, with tight supply and strong fundamentals underpinning high prices.

Plus, Wingellina is more advanced than most projects.

A pre-feasibility study developed by MLX indicated that the laterite project should support an initial 40-year mine life at production rate of 40,000tpa Ni and 3,000tpa Co.

NC1 plans to review all previous works and studies, along with various exploration programs to determine “how best to mine and process the potential high-grade zones of nickel, cobalt and scandium at both the Wingellina and the Claude Hills deposits.”

Further metallurgical testwork and optimisation studies will also be undertaken.

AUSTRAL RESOURCES (ASX:AR1)

Listing Price: $0.20

Current Price: $0.62

AR1 is the newest copper producer on the ASX at its ‘Mt Kelly’ project in northwest Queensland and is up 213% since listing last year.

Great timing, Barry Fitzgerald reckons.

“Assuming the project hits its straps, it has got to be said that 10,000tpa for an initial four years is a lot of copper for a company with a [$70m] market cap,” he says.

“In gross revenue terms, it equates to $A530m at the current copper price.

“Compare Austral’s market cap to the $150m-plus market caps of a crop of junior explorers that have recently reported copper exploration success in the same neck of the woods.

“Promising for sure, but they don’t have a proven resource, and they are certainly a long way off from producing, if at all.”

AR1’s plan is to plough back $10m into exploration over the next 12 months from project cash flow to build a bigger resource base — enough to make Mt Kelly a 10-year plus operation, potentially at a bigger production rate too given installed capacity is good for 30,000tpa of copper.

Drilling has kicked off at the first five or six priority targets.

KUNIKO (ASX:KNI)

Listing Price: $0.20

Current Price: $0.57

One of the hottest IPO’s of 2021, Vulcan Energy (ASX:VUL) spinout KNI gained 325% on its first day, before briefly peaking at a remarkable $3 per share shortly thereafter.

The company is now up 185%, having kicked off maiden diamond drilling last month at three cobalt-copper targets near a historic mine in Norway.

One of the targets, known as Middagshvile, was drilled with six holes back in 2018, which provided KNI the opportunity to acquire downhole geophysics data to “de-risk” the drill campaign.

“Drilling at our Skuterud Cobalt Project is running smoothy and efficiently, while our field exploration teams have been able to progress ahead of plan, enabling additional reconnaissance field work to be undertaken which has demonstrated the prospectivity for mineralisation at our other copper and nickel project sites,” CEO Antony Beckmand said.

The company says that with a prevailing and forecast undersupply for cobalt – plus current sources of supply being heavily reliant on Democratic Republic of Congo, Russia and China – “Kuniko is firmly focussed on the rapid development of Skuterud project to bridge the supply chain gap with ethically sourced, responsibly developed, net zero-carbon cobalt.”

GREEN TECHNOLOGY (ASX:GT1)

Listing Price: $0.25

Current Price: $0.58

Up 132% from its listing price of $0.25, GT1 recently doubled the interim mineral resource estimate for its Seymour lithium project in Canada to 9.9 Mt at 1.04% Li2O, and increased the indicated category mineral resource to 5.2 Mt at 1.29% Li2O.

“The result is a demonstration of the clear potential that exists at our flagship Seymour asset, and we remain focussed on delivering further high-grade resource growth over the second half of 2022,” CEO Luke Cox says.

The company thinks there’s also substantial further resource growth across the Aubry complex and the broader Seymour Project, with specific step-out and exploration drilling targets set to be tested in H2 2022.

Pic: Location map of northern area of GT1’s Seymour Project showing North and South Aubry deposits, Central Aubry zone and Pye prospect.

PACGOLD (ASX:PGO)

Listing Price: $0.25

Current Price: $0.58

This gold explorer is also up 132%, with its Alice River gold project in Queensland as its flagship.

The historic goldfield was mined as far back as 1903 but has only ever been the subject of shallow workings and limited exploration.

Pacgold picked the project up in late 2020 from private interests and came at it with a bunch of new geological ideas and the latest in remote sensing tools, the idea being that there could be a big and high-grade gold system hiding away at depth beneath the old scratchings.

The hunch has proved correct, Barry Fitzgerald says. Initial drilling last year indicated the company has cracked the top of a big system, with gold grades increasing at depth. Initial results included 17m grading 9.3g/t gold from 192m, and 43m grading 3g/t from 214m.

Step-out drilling is continuing to determine the extent of the high-grade gold mineralisation defining the F1a zone on the Central Target.

“Early visual indications are very encouraging; with drilling intercepting veining and alteration associated with the F1a zone up to 400m below surface and showing excellent continuity of the system extending to depth,” MD Tony Schreck said.

NC1, AR1, KNI, GT1 and PGO share prices today:

SOUTHERN CROSS GOLD (ASX:SXG)

Listing Price: $0.20

Current Price: $0.44

This spinout of TSX-listed Mawson Gold explorer hit a solid 119m at 3.9g/t gold equivalent drill hit at the ‘Sunday Creek’ project in Victoria last month – and is up a nice 123% from its listing price.

MD Michael Hudson says this result is “unprecedented” and that this sort of width of high-grade mineralisation is rarely, if ever, seen in the Victorian goldfields.

“A result of 119.2m @ 3.9g/t AuEq places the Sunday Creek project into a new realm and builds on what was already a remarkably successful drill program,” he says.

“Continuity, with great width and grades, is now evident down to 335m vertical depth in the Apollo Shoot that remains open to depth, while multiple adjacent shoots remain to be drilled out.”

Priority drilling is now underway to target wide and high-grade extensions to the mineralisation found in the drill hole, plus, there’s a 10km mineralised trend at Sunday Creek that has yet to receive any exploration drilling and offers potential future upside, SXG says.

NIMY RESOURCES (ASX:NIM)

Listing Price: $0.20

Current Price: $0.43

NIM is up 115% from its listing price, and just this month flagged that its first diamond drill hole at the Dease prospect at the Mons nickel project in WA intersected the first of three interpreted anomalous Moving Loop Electromagnetic (MLEM) conductors.

The company says these results, along with the first two holes at the Godleyand Dease prospects, confirms that both areas contain extensive and thick ultramafic units hosting nickel and copper mineralisation. Downhole electro-magnetic surveys (DHEM) will commence in mid-July at Dease and Godley.

For context, DHEM surveying involves sending a probe attached to a wire cable down a completed drill-hole.

The probe is able to detect conductive sulphide mineralisation off-hole, with the potential to “see” mineralisation up to 75m away.

COOPER METALS (ASX:CPM)

Listing Price: $0.20

Current Price: $0.41

The copper player is up 105% since listing, and this month intersected 17m at 2.2% copper from 84m including 8m at 4.3% copper from 84m at the King Solomon prospect at its Mt Isa East copper-gold project in Queensland.

Gold assays are still pending, but it’s worth noting the project is just 10km from Carnaby Resources’ (ASX:CNB) company-making Nil Desperandum IOCG discovery.

“Significant shallow copper and gold mineralisation has been intersected in eight holes spread out over a strike length of approximately 380m, and down to a maximum depth of approximately 100m,” MD Ian Warland says.

“Encouragingly mineralisation remains open at depth and to the south-southeast.

“The company will soon have assay results available for King Solomon 2 and 3 and will update the market with ongoing plans to capitalise on an exceptional start to exploration at the Mt Isa East Project.”

SXG, NIM and CPM share prices today:

The biggest IPO losers for FY22:

GEFEN (ASX:GFN)

Listing Price: $1.00

Current Price: $0.07

Down 92% since listing is Gefen, an AI technology platform for the insurance and finance sectors.

The company says that across the financial services sector – most notably in insurance – AI technology has helped insurers to assess risk and detect fraud, and reduce human error in the application process.

Its technology effectively provides a distribution network of tools every insurance/financial advisor needs to personalise their service to clients, without the clients having to become experts – but the company says its in-house engine can be scaled across multiple industries.

“Our initial focus on the insurance brokerage and agent market continues to gain pace,” co-founder and co-CEO Orni Daniel said in the company’s March quarterly.

“Our strategy to acquire agent networks has been an extremely cost-effective way of acquiring customers, which increased to 410,000, up 531% on the last quarter.”

BEFOREPAY (ASX:B4P)

Listing Price: $3.41

Current Price: $0.28

Branded as the new Afterpay, fintech player Beforepay is also down 92% on its listing price, this comes after the company reported a “significant uplift” in net transaction margin in Q3 FY22.

Pay advances were $87.9m in the quarter, up 213% from pcp and the company’s net transaction loss declined to 2.2%, down 58% YoY and 29% QoQ, driven by ongoing refinements to the risk model according to the company.

It’s worth noting that the company’s business model isn’t the same as a traditional BNPL provider, but it essentially makes money the same way – by providing advanced payments to customers.

Where Afterpay and Zip advance funds to buy items, Beforepay lends money against the customer’s next pay cheque, charging a flat 5% for the service.

Beforepay’s app syncs with the end users’ bank account, which then automatically debits the customer’s wages (plus the 5% fee) when they land.

Sometimes called pay-day lending, this type of service has exploded during the pandemic, as more people grapple with financial difficulties.

According to CEO Jamie Twiss, roughly half of all Australians have little or no savings and live from pay cheque to pay cheque, which is the exact market segment that Beforepay is targeting.

LUMOS DIAGNOSTICS (ASX:LDX)

Listing Price: $1.25

Current Price: $0.12

Down 90% on its listing price is LDX, who specialises in rapid, cost-effective and complete point-of-care (POC) diagnostic test solutions to help healthcare professionals more accurately diagnose and manage medical conditions.

In June, the company secured a contract with US-based Aptatek to develop a product to assist with screening for phenylketonuria (PKU) – a rare inherited disorder which causes an amino acid called phenylalanine to build up in the body and affects approximately 1 in 12,000 newborns.

Left untreated, this build-up can result in intellectual disabilities, seizures, behavioural problems and mental disorders.

The Aptatek product, developed under contract with Lumos, aims to provide a point-of-care/at-home screening test to allow PKU patients to directly measure their phenylalanine levels in real-time.

The initial phase of the partnership is expected to generate at least US$500,000 in revenue for Lumos.

The company also says that potential contracts for the purchase of its CoviDx SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Test are currently under consideration by government departments in Canada and Australia.

STEP ONE (ASX:STP)

Listing Price: $1.53

Current Price: $0.25

The retailer is down 83% on its listing price, with the company reporting in May that it would miss its previous forecasts.

FY22 earnings (EBITDA) in the range of $7-8.5m and sales growth of 15-20% are now expected. Both are materially lower than previous guidance of $15m for earnings and 21-25% revenue growth.

The analysts at Morgans expect the firm to remain profitable and cash generative, although they slashed the Step One price target by over 70% to $0.60 from $2.40.

The retailer’s conversion rate (exclusing the USA) dropped from 9.3% to 6.3% since the pandemic began. Source: StepOne.

GFN, B4P, LDX, STP and W2V share prices today:

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