10 at 10: These ASX stocks are emerging from the edge this morning

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10 highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers in percentage terms.

The market opens at 10am (eastern time) and the data is taken at 10:15am, once every stock has commenced trading.

Stocks highlighted in yellow have made market-moving announcements (click headings to sort).

Sentiment was firmly risk on this morning with 815 stocks up while 196 fell and 1096 unchanged.

eSense Lab (ASX:ESE) announced a US distribution agreement for its hand sanitiser products.

Cirrus Networks (ASX:CNW) and AD1 Holdings (ASX:AD1) climbed with news of contract wins – including with governments.

Allegra Orthopaedics (ASX:AMT) kept climbing after yesterday’s news of its ownership of IP for a bone substitute it had been collaborating on with Sydney University. This news sent it up 500 per cent in the last hour of trade yesterday.