For the second month in a row the ASX was hit by a major sell-off in the last few days of the month and it took the bourse from what was then a 0.5% gain to a 1.56% loss in November.

Just when we thought we were out of the worst of COVID, with some states and nations reopening borders and our COVID vaccine tally growing another ~3.6 million to reach 87% of over-16s fully vaxxed, the Omicron variant emerged and sent markets and borders into retreat again.

But ironically the ASX is still up 10% this year and the S&P500 up nearly 25% in spite of everything that’s happened this year.

 

Here are the top 50 ASX small cap winners for the month of November 2021>>>

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Code Company Price ReturnMRoll% Sector MktCap$
IDZ Indoor Skydive Aust 0.079 229 Consumer $ 24,242,407.13
ECT Env Clean Tech Ltd. 0.053 212 Industrial $ 63,501,503.78
DEV Devex Resources Ltd 0.7 126 Energy $ 207,342,169.32
VR1 Vection Technologies 0.235 124 Tech $ 286,556,680.85
A1M Aic Mines Ltd 0.49 118 Resources $ 152,813,933.91
TYM Tymlez Group 0.032 113 Tech $ 31,579,248.74
HAW Hawthorn Resources 0.105 102 Resources $ 31,683,983.24
ASQ Australian Silica 0.23 100 Resources $ 50,918,805.28
MRR Minrex Resources Ltd 0.04 100 Resources $ 15,778,450.49
WOO Wooboard Tech Ltd 0.002 100 Tech $ 9,555,406.86
AVZ AVZ Minerals Ltd 0.69 94 Resources $ 1,995,267,061.60
BIT Biotron Limited 0.092 92 Health $ 70,193,271.30
PRT Prime Media Grp Ltd 0.425 85 Telco $ 155,690,378.78
EMD Emyria Limited 0.46 84 Health $ 83,584,935.84
AV1 Adveritas Ltd 0.18 83 Tech $ 68,023,068.43
ICI Icandy Interactive 0.17 81 Tech $ 97,040,372.72
AGN Argenica 0.64 80 Health $ 27,626,038.83
STP Step One Limited 2.74 79 Consumer $ 491,151,771.15
KWR Kingwest Resources 0.22 76 Resources $ 55,570,420.75
PGO Pacgold 0.545 76 Resources $ 16,252,980.00
KMT Kopore Metals Ltd 0.04 74 Resources $ 24,524,778.20
TRL Tanga Resources Ltd 0.073 74 Resources $ 32,362,250.76
LCY Legacy Iron Ore 0.022 69 Resources $ 153,713,724.41
CPN Caspin Resources 1.41 67 Resources $ 83,435,748.45
PSC Prospect Res Ltd 0.69 64 Resources $ 287,110,768.45
NVX Novonix Limited 11.95 61 Tech $ 5,288,901,023.52
TRT Todd River Res Ltd 0.11 59 Resources $ 59,261,788.22
DLM Dominion Minerals 0.079 58 Resources $ 16,568,040.00
MQR Marquee Resource Ltd 0.12 52 Resources $ 21,366,813.26
ATC Altech Chem Ltd 0.14 51 Resources $ 180,441,939.58
CDT Castle Minerals 0.027 50 Resources $ 22,862,960.93
PNR Pantoro Limited 0.33 50 Resources $ 465,134,570.34
PBX Pacific Bauxite Ltd 0.003 50 Resources $ 1,189,842.10
RNE Renu Energy Ltd 0.096 50 Energy $ 14,603,921.53
CHN Chalice Mining Ltd 9.97 49 Resources $ 3,347,550,801.00
LMG Latrobe Magnesium 0.094 49 Resources $ 142,201,928.78
SHG Singular Health 0.305 49 Health $ 17,790,707.55
BCT Bluechiip Limited 0.062 48 Tech $ 33,481,308.11
MEM Memphasys Ltd 0.095 47 Health $ 76,049,120.35
EMT Emetals Limited 0.022 47 Resources $ 7,885,000.00
LPD Lepidico Ltd 0.045 45 Resources $ 261,258,367.69
PRM Prominence Energy 0.01 43 Resources $ 10,338,588.19
HIO Hawsons Iron Ltd 0.11 43 Resources $ 68,645,083.20
IHL Incannex Healthcare 0.57 41 Health $ 628,434,561.56
EFE Eastern Iron 0.076 41 Resources $ 65,821,914.05
PRO Prophecy Internation 1.61 40 Tech $ 109,650,491.66
EGR Ecograf Limited 0.85 39 Resources $ 373,776,770.97
STM Sunstone Metals Ltd 0.093 39 Resources $ 214,744,413.98
JDR Jadar Resources 0.054 38 Resources $ 39,298,937.66
RLC Reedy Lagoon Corp. 0.04 38 Resources $ 21,601,046.64
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Metaverse intrigues investors

You might recall last month we poked fun at Facebook for its rebranding.

But after the initial announcement, investors looked more closely at stocks in the so-called metaverse.

The company arguably offering ASX investors the greatest exposure, Vection Tech (ASX:VR1), came in at number four on the ASX November winners list as it unveiled its FrameS Metaverse.

It will enable organisations to autonomously build immersive metaverses, dynamic 3D worlds where people can participate in meetings from anywhere in the world.

Also on the list is iCandy Interactive (ASX:ICI), which launched itself into the metaverse world by acquiring esports studio Lemon Sky Studios.

 

Top 3 ASX winners in November

But coming in first was another stock with exposure to virtual reality in Indoor Skydive (ASX:IDZ), which gained 229%.

During the month it appointed a new director in defence industry executive Mark Smethurst and opened its fourth FREAK entertainment centre in the Macquarie shopping centre in Sydney. It offers VR games, including escape rooms.

Taking the silver medal was Environmental Clean Technologies (ASX:ECT), gaining 212% on the ASX in November.

The company has a number of clean energy technologies under development in lignite, hydrogen and waste conversion. But it is the company’s hydrogen refinery in Victoria that has excited investors the most.

In bronze was DevEx Resources (ASX:DEV), gaining 126%. The biggest news out of the company was diamond drilling results at its nickel-copper Sovereign project.

Arguably the bigger catalyst for growth was Chalice Mining’s (ASX:CHN) maiden resource at Julimar, being a discovery DevEx and dozens of explorers are trying to replicate.

But one thing DevEx boasts that no other nearology plays can is having Chalice chairman Tim Goyder on its board.

There is one other Julimar nearology play in November’s ASX winners list in Caspin Resources (ASX:CPN) and its point of difference to other plays is having Chalice itself as a shareholder.

 

Other notable ASX winners

One late entrant to the ASX November winners list is biotech stock Biotron (ASX:BIT). No stranger to big gains in recent years, it surged last week when results of its pre-clinical study showed BIT225 was effective, albeit in mice.

The other biotech to gain was Argenica Therapeutics (ASX:AGN), which early in the month demonstrated positive efficacy results from a preclinical study of lead drug, ARG-007.

In an animal study, the results showed that ARG-007 very significantly reduced the volume of brain tissue death for HIE (hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy) compared to the control group which received a saline injection instead of ARG-007.

Still with health and Emyria (ASX:EMD), one of a dozen or so stocks trying to get a CBD product to supermarket shelves, surged after a $5 million investment from Andrew Forrest.

Another share-price-surging deal was Prime Media (ASX:PRT), which received a $131.9m offer from Seven West Media (ASX:SWM).

And three years after its wound dressing drug failed a Phase II clinical trial – leading to a 97% share price plunge – Factor Therapeutics (ASX:FTT) finally found a new life as a calcium limestone explorer and has been renamed Dominion Minerals (ASX:DLM).

Listing on the same day was underwear manufacturer Step One (ASX:STP) and it is up over 70% from its IPO price.