ASX investors evidently shrugged off omicron fears in December, with the last month of the 2021 being the second best of the year.

Ultimately, the market finished 2021 13% higher than it started. Patience pays off, unless you got in at the top of the meme stock froth-fest.

 

Here are the 50 biggest winners among ASX small cap companies for the month of December 2021>>>

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Code Company Price Monthly % Return Sector MktCap$
AHK Ark Mines Limited 0.22 547 Resources $ 6,833,222.66
CNB Carnaby Resource Ltd 1.37 459 Resources $ 140,504,058.03
QGL Quantum Graphite 0.165 224 Resources $ 48,345,000.00
NEU Neuren Pharmaceut. 3.86 114 Health $ 479,929,225.56
SPQ Superior Resources 0.038 111 Resources $ 58,344,381.40
DCX Discovex Res Ltd 0.01 100 Resources $ 23,117,976.68
ERM Emmerson Resources 0.14 89 Resources $ 67,262,196.02
4DS 4Ds Memory Limited 0.089 78 Tech $ 144,707,484.20
DM1 Desert Metals 0.39 63 Resources $ 12,938,250.00
EMP Emperor Energy Ltd 0.058 61 Energy $ 10,645,297.88
TMS Tennant Minerals Ltd 0.036 57 Resources $ 14,996,745.54
AVR Anteris Technologies 13.62 56 Health $ 142,555,908.25
EGL Environmental Group 0.285 54 Industrial $ 83,328,441.12
ATR Astron Corp Ltd 0.45 50 Resources $ 55,114,685.10
SYR Syrah Resources 1.785 50 Resources $ 897,722,501.40
GL1 Globallith 0.93 50 Resources $ 108,862,278.43
CCE Carnegie Cln Energy 0.003 50 Utilities $ 45,307,721.13
PBX Pacific Bauxite Ltd 0.003 50 Resources $ 1,189,842.10
SKT Sky Network 2.51 50 Telcos $ 434,973,924.27
HFR Highfield Res Ltd 0.89 48 Resources $ 326,164,748.87
ADO Anteotech Ltd 0.285 46 Health $ 523,121,763.88
RMY RMA Global 0.24 45 Telcos $ 115,046,312.88
GWR GWR Group Ltd 0.145 45 Resources $ 44,017,591.42
HMX Hammer Metals Ltd 0.0605 44 Resources $ 48,899,677.38
MCR Mincor Resources NL 1.78 44 Resources $ 845,186,143.20
ACL Au Clinical Labs 6.09 43 Health $ 1,219,077,450.60
SNS Sensen Networks Ltd 0.15 43 Tech $ 100,803,127.80
GMR Golden Rim Resources 0.14 41 Resources $ 33,205,231.53
CSE Copper Strike Ltd 0.12 41 Resources $ 15,003,627.38
GRR Grange Resources. 0.745 39 Resources $ 844,857,249.54
TRN Torrens Mining 0.18 38 Resources $ 12,539,688.84
CUF Cufe Ltd 0.04 38 Resources $ 33,113,932.78
CAQ CAQ Holdings Ltd 0.022 38 Property $ 15,791,298.18
AS1 Angel Seafood 0.185 37 Consumer $ 29,083,473.72
MLX Metals X Limited 0.54 37 Resources $ 435,487,712.16
RHT Resonance Health 0.1425 36 Health $ 66,823,537.25
LM8 Lunnonmetalslimited 0.46 35 Resources $ 34,087,069.42
LVE Love Group Global 0.135 35 Telcos $ 5,472,112.82
GSS Genetic Signatures 1.775 35 Health $ 249,702,949.27
CDX Cardiex Limited 0.07 35 Health $ 78,030,598.64
STX Strike Energy Ltd 0.2075 34 Energy $ 425,272,059.45
PCL Pancontinental Energ 0.002 33 Energy $ 14,308,445.62
ALT Analytica Limited 0.002 33 Health $ 9,227,602.26
COD Coda Minerals Ltd 0.92 33 Resources $ 84,139,733.44
RDG Res Dev Group Ltd 0.08 33 Industrial $ 224,809,301.44
SCL Schrole Group Ltd 0.012 33 Tech $ 20,751,323.88
PLY Playside Studios 1.11 32 Telcos $ 168,818,387.40
ECG Ecargo Hldg 0.033 32 Industrials $ 20,303,250.00
REZ Resourc & En Grp Ltd 0.062 32 Resources $ 30,987,958.92
HIO Hawsons Iron Ltd 0.145 32 Resources $ 103,682,677.75
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The Top 3

Talk about a Christmas miracle.

Two years after entering administration Ark Mines (ASX:AHK) returned from the grave and is now up over 500% from the darkest of days.

The previously NT-focused company raised $4.7 million to rejoin the ASX boards with a handful of projects around regional Queensland.

Another company that returned from purgatory was Quantum Graphite (ASX:QGL), a company which has a graphite deposit in South Australia and is up 225% this month.

This company didn’t need to recapitalise but had been suspended for some months with the ASX advising exploration activities were insufficient to warrant quotation – but the bourse let the company trade again after picking up the drillbit.

Sandwiched in between the two was Carnaby Resources (ASX:CNB) – a company that finished December 459% higher than what it began, much of which was achieved in the last two weeks.

It made what has been described as a “spectacular” copper discovery at the Nil Desperandum prospect, part of the Greater Duchess  project in Queensland.

The company told shareholders it would conduct follow up drilling in the New Year.

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Other ASX winners

A highly unusual number of companies in the ASX winners’ list belong to the telecommunications sector, home to mobile phone and broadband companies, internet and streaming services.

December winners include RMA Global (ASX:RMY) – a real estate platform operator whose offerings include the Rate My Agent website — and dating platform Love Group Global (ASX:LVE).

Game developer Playside Studios (ASX:PLY) and New Zealand broadcaster  Sky Network Television (ASX:SKT) round out the list and the latter (which has no relation to Sky in Australia or the UK) takes the cake.

This company substantially upped its guidance following a cost review from $115m-$130m to $150-$160m as well as its profit guidance from $17.5m-$27.5m to $40m-$48m.

The company got a further boost from selling off some of its properties, a transaction that will add another $56 million to its coffers in the new year.

The health sector also gave investors a handful of winners, none more so than Neuren Pharmaceuticals (ASX:NEU) which reported positive results from a Phase 3 clinical trial of its lead asset trofinetide against Rett Syndrome.

The next step for Neuren is FDA approval, a milestone that gives it the potential for hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. A Pre-New Drug Application meeting with the FDA is planned for Q1 2022, and the all important New Drug Application (NDA) is slated for mid-year.

Elsewhere, medtech Resonance Health (ASX:RHT) got approval from the FDA for its AI medical device LiverSmart, the second such device the US regulator has approved.

And pathology company Australian Clinical Labs (ASX:ACL), which only listed earlier this year, raked in the cash from increased levels of COVID-19 testing.

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