Closing Bell: Lithium debut goes up, health stock debut gets smashed

The ASX returned to positive territory today as investors began to shrug off fears of the omicron variant, but the bourse is still well below levels seen last week.

While utilities lost over 1%, most other sectors gained with telcos being the best performer with a 1.84% gain.

TODAY’S BIGGEST SMALL CAP WINNERS

(Stocks highlighted in yellow rose after making announcements during the trading day).

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume
ANL	Amani Gold Ltd	0.0015	50	26242696
NPM	Newpeak Metals	0.0015	50	3526998
MRR	Minrex Resources Ltd	0.04	48	85518882
IDT	IDT Australia Ltd	0.61	40	11043953
ESH	Esports Mogul Ltd	0.008	33	56950044
XTC	Xantippe Res Ltd	0.004	33	14557892
WR1	Winsome Resources	0.26	30	16236546
REM	Remsensetechnologies	0.415	26	489420
GED	Golden Deeps	0.015	25	99202679
TPS	Threat Protect Ltd	0.005	25	18289776
ASQ	Australian Silica	0.23	21	2779553
LCK	Leigh Crk Energy Ltd	0.145	21	22575897
GO2	Thego2People	0.037	19	380000
W2V	Way2Vatltd	0.16	19	235801
MR1	Montem Resources	0.071	18	539970
CPN	Caspin Resources	1.41	18	1103393
DM1	Desert Metals	0.24	17	272338
PTX	Prescient Ltd	0.24	17	3128718
AV1	Adveritas Ltd	0.18	16	6633682
ASO	Aston Minerals Ltd	0.145	16	8468269
EMT	Emetals Limited	0.022	16	4616038
BOEDA	Boss Energy Ltd	2.72	16	1115123
BCK	Brockman Mining Ltd	0.054	15	867061

IDT (ASX:IDT) announced it had finally manufactured Australia’s first mRNA vaccine.

The ASX’s latest lithium explorer Winsome Resources (ASX:WR1) lived up to its name, rising on its first trading day on the ASX.

Leigh Creek Energy (ASX:LCK) signed an offtake agreement with Korean company Delim for an offtake of at least 500,000 metric tonnes of granular urea per annum for at least five years.

Golden Deeps (ASX:GED) rose after reporting high-grade copper-lead-silver intersections at its Nosib Block prospect.

TODAY’S BIGGEST SMALL CAP LOSERS

(Stocks highlighted in yellow fell after making announcements during the trading day).

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume
BIO	Biome Australia Ltd	0.12	-40	13289869
ARO	Astro Resources NL	0.004	-20	23500000
CCE	Carnegie Cln Energy	0.002	-20	1296683
WOO	Wooboard Tech Ltd	0.002	-20	24479439
YPB	YPB Group Ltd	0.002	-20	23218
TLG	Talga Group Ltd	1.48	-18	7543423
AFW	Applyflow Limited	0.005	-17	1077737
TIA	Tian An Aust Limited	0.26	-16	2090
VR1	Vection Technologies	0.235	-15	38002184
AMD	Arrow Minerals	0.006	-14	3358808
BKY	Berkeley Energia Ltd	0.185	-14	321674
MHK	Metalhawk.	0.22	-14	988461
NAG	Nagambie Resources	0.066	-13	661729
AUR	Auris Minerals Ltd	0.053	-13	370857
RTG	RTG Mining Inc.	0.1	-13	92824
TGH	Terragen	0.2	-13	40193
RNE	Renu Energy Ltd	0.096	-12	4137505
TTB	Total Brain Ltd	0.11	-12	98485
RCR	Rincon	0.15	-12	155195
NXL	Nuix Limited	2.26	-12	7017442
PVW	PVW Res Ltd	0.38	-12	1083336
BDM	Burgundy D Mines Ltd	0.235	-11	77890
CLE	Cyclone Metals	0.004	-11	4320676

Despite today’s rebound in the equity markets, probiotics business Biome (ASX:BIO) saw one of the worst debuts of 2021 falling over 40%.

Nuix (ASX:NXL) fell off the back of a trading update and an address to shareholders at its AGM earlier this morning.

ANNOUNCEMENTS YOU MAY’VE MISSED

Pacific Equity Partners is ordinarily a buyer of ASX companies or their individual assets but today it was a seller. Automotive accessories firm GUD Holdings (ASX:GUD) announced it was buying industry peer APG from Pacific Equity Partners for $744.6 million.

Australian Finance Group (ASX:AFG) announced it was buying a 75% stake in asset finance aggregator National Finance Alliance. It says the combined group will have over 3,335 brokers and settlements of over $1.7 billion per annum.

Way2VAT (ASX:W2V) announced it had signed technology retailer Bang & Olufsen as a client. The deal runs for a a one year term initially and will cover over 40 countries.

SportsHero (ASX:SHO) formally launched Ellevate Football, its world leading football talent scouting app, into Indonesia. The app allows aspiring young footballers to be connected to talent scouts of professional football clubs worldwide.

EMvision (ASX:EMV), a medtech developing a brain screening technology which can diagnose stroke, unveiled additional data from its pilot clinical trial which showed that the ability of its technology to distinguish stroke types was very high. The company says it is preparing for expanded clinical studies and hopes to eventually reach commercialisation.