Rise and Shine: Everything you need to know before the ASX opens

Today on Stockhead, Nadine McGrath chats with Pro Medicus co-founder and CEO Dr Sam Hupert about the $8.75bn medical behemoth’s 40-year rise to the top, Christian Edwards does the broker rounds to see how far this uranium bull might run, and all of a sudden Hollywood celebrities are crushing markets better than the pros.

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: US$1,826.47 (-0.05%)

Silver: US$21.12 (+0.24%)

Nickel (3mth): US$18,694/t (-1.02%)

Copper (3mth): US$8,053.00/t (-2.63%)

Oil (WTI): US$88.89 (+0.10%)

Oil (Brent): US$90.55 (-0.21%)

Iron 62pc Fe: US$119.50/t (+0.04%)

AUD/USD: 0.631 (-0.72%)

Bitcoin: US$27,604.10 (-2.50%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING

Nothing gets the view count ticking over quite like the faint smell of hopium on the evening breeze.

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— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) October 3, 2023

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
AXP	AXP Energy Ltd	0.002	100%	248,652	$5,824,681
GMN	Gold Mountain Ltd	0.007	40%	3,712,635	$11,345,393
GAL	Galileo Mining Ltd	0.405	37%	1,541,699	$58,299,353
MRD	Mount Ridley Mines	0.002	33%	1,259,942	$11,677,324
IMI	Infinitymining	0.145	32%	304,168	$8,541,652
BIT	Biotron Limited	0.088	29%	50,560,849	$61,332,253
LM1	Leeuwin Metals Ltd	0.315	26%	354,206	$11,196,250
CT1	Constellation Tech	0.0025	25%	453,257	$2,942,401
CTO	Citigold Corp Ltd	0.005	25%	900,000	$11,494,636
MCT	Metalicity Limited	0.0025	25%	4,766,666	$7,472,172
TAR	Taruga Minerals	0.011	22%	168,332	$6,354,241
HFY	Hubify Ltd	0.018	20%	83,167	$7,442,044
AMD	Arrow Minerals	0.003	20%	2,954,187	$7,559,413
TOE	Toro Energy Limited	0.0155	19%	35,370,707	$62,156,869
CTQ	Careteq Limited	0.026	18%	657,903	$4,886,703
EYE	Nova EYE Medical Ltd	0.23	18%	585,599	$37,172,634
ACM	Aus Critical Mineral	0.3	18%	625,049	$7,581,469
BMR	Ballymore Resources	0.1	18%	59,567	$12,426,767
CYL	Catalyst Metals	0.66	17%	254,808	$124,349,462
4DX	4Dmedical Limited	0.525	17%	232,080	$155,525,102
HIQ	Hitiq Limited	0.021	17%	21,695	$4,802,027
DTR	Dateline Resources	0.014	17%	505,213	$10,625,314
RLC	Reedy Lagoon Corp.	0.007	17%	940,000	$3,700,102
LV1	Live Verdure Ltd	0.395	16%	340,215	$38,134,079
VEE	Veem Ltd	0.65	16%	178,591	$76,002,893

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
CCE	Carnegie Cln Energy	0.002	100%	3,944,886	$15,642,574
NOX	Noxopharm Limited	0.062	48%	3,849,822	$12,273,994
HVY	Heavymineralslimited	0.13	37%	1,166,954	$5,474,239
PUA	Peak Minerals Ltd	0.004	33%	222,139	$3,124,130
AL8	Alderan Resource Ltd	0.0145	32%	23,565,870	$6,783,641
ASO	Aston Minerals Ltd	0.035	30%	1,564,878	$34,437,985
AHK	Ark Mines Limited	0.225	25%	410,872	$8,126,056
BPP	Babylon Pump & Power	0.005	25%	2,000,000	$9,848,308
GTG	Genetic Technologies	0.0025	25%	173,083	$23,083,316
TOY	Toys R Us	0.011	22%	31,947,890	$8,306,262
BCK	Brockman Mining Ltd	0.03	20%	313,866	$232,005,803
SCN	Scorpion Minerals	0.069	19%	1,559,515	$20,050,959
ECS	ECS Botanics Holding	0.026	18%	24,112,971	$24,348,075
HTG	Harvest Tech Grp Ltd	0.033	18%	116,674	$19,477,230
JXT	Jaxstaltd	0.066	18%	1,276,310	$28,742,817
DEL	Delorean Corporation	0.027	17%	92,592	$4,961,581
EXL	Elixinol Wellness	0.007	17%	464,650	$3,758,896
FGL	Frugl Group Limited	0.014	17%	244,894	$11,472,744
RIM	Rimfire Pacific	0.007	17%	500,000	$12,631,468
PTR	Petratherm Ltd	0.064	16%	212,572	$12,361,313
NIM	Nimyresourceslimited	0.22	16%	1,719,712	$14,718,854
BLU	Blue Energy Limited	0.015	15%	4,403,113	$24,062,657
NMR	Native Mineral Res	0.047	15%	432,443	$8,262,961
MOH	Moho Resources	0.008	14%	1,319,500	$1,904,249
RMX	Red Mount Min Ltd	0.004	14%	3,120,433	$9,357,516

Nimy Resources (ASX:NIM) copped onto massive nickel-copper sulphides from the first hole of RC drilling at Mons, intersecting 13m of massive sulphide mineralisation in total, containing pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite and pyrite.

Some bullies from Christian, who loves a good set of bullies:

• Mineralised intersection is continuous and commencing from 102m depth.
• The massive sulphide intersections are coincident with the modelled MLEM plate locations.
• Samples have been delivered to Perth for expedited assaying.
• Holes have been cased in preparation for downhole electromagnetic (DHEM) survey to enhance
understanding of the plates’ dimensions.
• Drill Rig has been moved to Block 3 to test modelled conductive plates at that location.
• Nimy has an additional 31 VTEM anomalies with similar characteristics undergoing investigation.

Effective, right?

Toys R Us (ASX:TOY) was up 50% on news from the overseas branch of the toy-seller is that it’s in new hands, and has plans to build 24 new retails spaces in some unconventional places – inside other major stores like Macy’s, and on cruise ships (the ultimate in captive audiences).

That is actually clever.

Next up is Noxopharm (ASX:NOX), which earned itself a speeding ticket from the ASX success police – up near 50% at 3.30pm, NOX was in a halt.

But the halt came “pending an announcement by the Company to the market regarding the determination of the designation by FDA for pancreatic cancer drug candidate CRO-67.”

ECS Botanics (ASX:ECS) was loving Tuesday after revealing it had signed a fab new $24 million offtake agreement to supply medicinal cannabis dried flower over the next five years to MediCann Health.

The deal builds on the existing two-year contract and expects to deliver over four tonnes of dried cannabis flower over five years.

And Alderan Resources (ASX:AL8) spiked on an update regarding its recent acquisition of seven lithium exploration projects in the mineral resource rich state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Seven!

TODAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
TI1	Tombador Iron	0.012	-33%	9,579,587	$38,852,683
EXT	Excite Technology	0.005	-29%	408,333	$8,464,692
NZS	New Zealand Coastal	0.0015	-25%	2,652,670	$3,334,020
A3D	Aurora Labs Limited	0.017	-23%	2,066,177	$5,407,777
CPN	Caspin Resources	0.12	-23%	45,112	$14,611,178
WBEDC	Whitebark Energy	0.02	-20%	354,956	$3,669,830
ADS	Adslot Ltd.	0.004	-20%	630,000	$16,122,478
AVH	Avita Medical	3.61	-19%	1,626,975	$269,342,398
E33	East 33 Limited.	0.025	-17%	106,517	$15,572,661
NWF	Newfield Resources	0.125	-17%	18,731	$132,307,086
AMD	Arrow Minerals	0.0025	-17%	2,487,566	$9,071,295
AVM	Advance Metals Ltd	0.005	-17%	2,797,790	$3,531,352
CNJ	Conico Ltd	0.005	-17%	984,418	$9,420,570
NES	Nelson Resources.	0.005	-17%	1,000,000	$3,681,566
TIG	Tigers Realm Coal	0.005	-17%	1,500,000	$78,400,214
DMM	Dmcmininglimited	0.056	-16%	34,250	$2,006,650
ZGL	Zicom Group Limited	0.048	-16%	66,539	$12,229,920
CBR	Carbon Revolution	0.135	-16%	1,133,443	$33,944,401
MEL	Metgasco Ltd	0.011	-15%	1,249,403	$13,830,528
TMK	TMK Energy Limited	0.011	-15%	243,300	$65,397,531
BUS	Bubalusresources	0.17	-15%	109,951	$5,694,235
ATS	Australis Oil & Gas	0.023	-15%	1,153,415	$34,205,370
KNO	Knosys Limited	0.035	-15%	186,717	$8,861,687
1MC	Morella Corporation	0.006	-14%	3,076,961	$42,970,590
AYT	Austin Metals Ltd	0.006	-14%	209,857	$7,111,123

TRADING HALTS

Noxopharm (ASX:NOX) – Pending an announcement by the Company to the market regarding the determination of the designation by FDA for pancreatic cancer drug candidate CRO-67.