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 potentially market-moving announcements:

Ticker Name Price % Chg Volume
ELT Elementos Ltd 0.005 +66.67% 75.4k
MNC Metminco Ltd 0.003 50.00% 4.2M
AVE Avecho Biotechnology Ltd 0.005 +25.00% 50k
EFE Eastern Iron Ltd 0.005 +25.00% 69.4k
LLO Lion One Metals Ltd 1.02 +22.16% 20.0k
VAL Valor Resources Ltd 0.006 +20.00% 1.2M
ADV Ardiden Ltd 0.0035 +16.67% 3.7M
CLZ Classic Minerals Ltd 0.0035 +16.67% 44.7M
AWV Anova Metals Ltd 0.015 +15.38% 20.0k
RXL Rox Resources Ltd 0.03 +12.00% 3.6M

On the flip side, there were a couple of notable falls in early morning trade.

Chase Mining (ASX: CML) fell almost 30 per cent after drilling results left the market underwhelmed. And IT company Arq Group (ASX: ARQ) had similar fall in the wake of a trading update where it announced that CEO Martin Mercer will step down effective immediately.

These 10 stocks were lagging the pack in morning trade:

Code Name Price % Chg Volume
AYM Australia United Mining Ltd 0.001 -50.00% 10.0k
IVO Invigor Group Ltd 0.002 -33.33% 100.6k
AVW Avira Resources Ltd 0.002 -33.33% 33.4k
CML Chase Mining Corp Ltd 0.02 -29.63% 767.0k
ARQ ARQ Group Ltd 0.38 -29.63% 1.2M
RLC Reedy Lagoon Corp Ltd 0.003 -25.00% 10.0k
IEC Intra Energy Corp Ltd 0.006 -25.00% 1.5M
TV2 TV2U International Ltd 0.008 -20.00% 50.0k
MTB Mount Burgess Mining NL 0.004 -20.00% 228.6k
LHB LionHub Group Ltd 0.004 -20.00% 165k