ASX Small Cap Lunch Wrap: Who wants to ruin Father's Day this year?

Here’s something that might just be a good idea for a Father’s Day present — or maybe not.

Darrell Lea has unveiled a limited edition brew flavoured like liquorice. It costs $11 per can, or $45 per four-pack drink.

If the liquorice-stout offering is indeed presented to any unsuspecting Dads this year, the unwritten rule is that they have to drink it. Haha.

If we’re being honest, the latest weird and wacky beer creation was an attempt on our part to lead off with something other than COVID.

However…

Overnight the US FDA gave full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 jab, and some health experts are optimistic it will act as a catalyst to improve vaccination rates in the USA.

The news led to gains on Wall Street overnight and spurred demand for Australian travel stocks, even though there were no specific updates in the sector.

On the home-front, New South Wales surpassed six million jabs and looks set to grant its citizens more freedoms. While we’ll find out the details later in the week, travelling interstate is probably the least likely of them.

The ASX 200 followed the strong US lead to post a gain of 0.32% to 7,514 points as at 12pm.

WINNERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks at 12pm Tuesday, August 24:

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Code	Name	Price	% Change	Volume
KNI	Kunikolimited	0.87	333	5334687
CLZ	Classic Min Ltd	0.0015	50	132511875
DDD	3D Resources Limited	0.004	33	390019
KNM	Kneomedia Limited	0.013	18	8557959
GLL	Galilee Energy Ltd	0.53	18	426607
NAN	Nanosonics Limited	6.92	17	3156082
PYR	Payright Limited	0.42	17	82886
CY5	Cygnus Gold Limited	0.145	16	14659
AFR	African Energy Res	0.03	15	5557082
FHS	Freehill Mining Ltd.	0.03	15	869100
TOE	Toro Energy Limited	0.015	15	6265165
SP3	Specturltd	0.11	15	114211
DDT	DataDot Technology	0.008	14	9675074
WFL	Wellfully Limited	0.12	14	3563612
ONT	1300 Smiles Limited	8.02	14	86268
HXL	Hexima	0.295	13	717224
MGU	Magnum Mining & Exp	0.077	13	3760517
WNR	Wingara Ag Ltd	0.13	13	75000
AR3	Austrare	1.12	13	428932
BBX	BBX Minerals Ltd	0.225	13	45
SMX	Security Matters	0.36	13	98750
POW	Protean Energy Ltd	0.009	13	327108

Sitting on top with a gain of over 300% was Kuniko (ASX:KNI) which is a spin off from lithium high flyer Vulcan (ASX:VUL).

Speaking of hot running recent listees, Australian Rare Earths (ASX:AR3) surged further off the back of its latest drilling results.

Stocks climbing off the back of annual results included Nanosonics (ASX:NAN) and 1300 Smiles (ASX:ONT). The latter of these companies was further boosted from a $165 million takeover offer.

LOSERS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks at 12pm Tuesday, August 24:

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Code	Name	Price	% Change	Volume
CCE	Carnegie Cln Energy	0.002	-33	4695915
MLS	Metals Australia	0.0015	-25	1916666
YPB	YPB Group Ltd	0.0015	-25	2278109
CGB	Cann Global Limited	0.004	-20	5207960
VPR	Volt Power Group	0.002	-20	20530
EPX	Ept Global Limited	0.17	-17	46500
OVT	Ovato Limited	0.0025	-17	750
MND	Monadelphous Group	10.08	-15	1639331
KGN	Kogan.Com Ltd	11.4	-13	3466108
MRD	Mount Ridley Mines	0.0035	-13	52120002
ASB	Austal Limited	2.23	-11	3523842
EVE	EVE Investments Ltd	0.004	-11	5000
VAL	Valor Resources Ltd	0.008	-11	1431108
BUX	Buxton Resources Ltd	0.082	-11	247882
HMI	Hiremii	0.082	-11	96882
AVL	Aust Vanadium Ltd	0.026	-10	36732932
EP1	E&P Financial Group	0.61	-10	105296
LPE	Locality Planning	0.195	-9	373625
ECT	Env Clean Tech Ltd.	0.01	-9	179156
NAE	New Age Exploration	0.01	-9	7939917
TRN	Torrens Mining	0.2	-9	209569
GTE	Great Western Exp.	0.15	-9	183024