On Stockhead today, the small cap scoring military VR contracts, is palladium’s recovery under way, and VP’s John So gives his lithium picks.

But first … the day ahead.

WHO’S LISTING?

A bunch of construction and infrastructure-facing stocks hit the bourse today.

Winton Land (ASX:WTN)

A New Zealand property developer with 28 projects underway throughout NZ and one in Australia.

Winton’s current development pipeline includes 7,442 residential lots and dwellings, apartment units and retirement village units from existing projects – with $703 million of gross pre-sales secured as at 15 November 2021.

It raised $350m at $3.89 per share in its IPO and will have an implied market cap of ~$1.15bn on listing.

AVADA Group (ASX:AVD)

An Aussie traffic management operator, with a focus on NSW and QLD.

Clients include state and local governments, federally funded contractors and major contractors in the utilities, infrastructure, construction, telecommunications, and other industrial sectors.

It raised $32.5m at $1 per share in its IPO and will have an implied market cap of $73m on listing.

SHAPE Australia (ASX:SHA)

One of Australia’s leading fit-out and refurbishment construction companies, with a national presence across commercial and government, hospitality, healthcare, education, defence, and retail sectors.

SHAPE has a total identified future project pipeline of ~$1.9bn as at 30 September 2021. Of this pipeline, SHAPE has submitted tenders for projects totalling ~$280m and is in the process of tendering for a further ~$230m of works, with over 80% of the projects anticipated to be awarded in FY22.

It raised $2m at $1.96 per share and will have an implied market cap of $163m on listing.

IPD Group (ASX:IPG)

A company servicing Australia’s electrical industry.

IPD’s core focus is power distribution, power monitoring, industrial control, renewables, test and measurement, and services, across a range of verticals such as power generation, commercial, hospitality, infrastructure, and sports and leisure facilities.

It raised $40m at $1.20 per share.

 

TRADING HALTS

The following companies are in trading halts and are expected out in the next two trading days:

Friday

National Tyre & Wheel (ASX:NTD) – capital raising
Laserbond (ASX:LBL) – capital raising and acquisition
Corporate Travel Management (ASX:CTD) – capital raising
RTG Mining (ASX:RTG) – capital raising
Frontier Digital Ventures (ASX:FDV) – capital raising
Battery Minerals (ASX:BAT) – capital raising
Pearl Global (ASX:PG1) – capital raising
Kalamazoo Resources (ASX:KZR) – earn in transaction
Audio Pixels (ASX:AKP) – material agreement
The Sustainable Nutrition Group (ASX:TSN) – capital raising and acquisition

Monday

Magnis Energy Technologies (ASX:MNS) – off-take agreement
Bounty Oil & Gas (ASX:BUY) – PEP-11 update
Bionomics (ASX:BNO) – US IPO update
Emyria (ASX:EMD) – technology partnership
Matsa Resources (ASX:MAT) – divestment
IGO (ASX:IGO) – acquisition
Esports Mogul (ASX:ESH) – capital raising
Greenland Minerals (ASX:GGG) – outcome of Greenland government meeting
Mayur Resources (ASX:MRL) – capital raising
Future First Technologies (ASX:FFT) – capital raising

 

MARKETS (updated at 7.30am AEDT)

Gold: $US1,798.00 ($2,507.34) (+1.17%)

Silver: $US22.43 ($31.28) (+1.73%)

Oil (WTI): $US71.85 (+1.38%)

Oil (Brent): $US74.58 (+0.95%)

Coal: $US169.25 (+0.03%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US111.19 (+1.80%)

AUD/USD: $US0.7170 (+0.08%)

Bitcoin: $US47,975.94 ($66,903.17) (-2.16%)

 

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING YESTERDAY?

Copper. One of the metals expected to receive another leg up in 2022.

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YESTERDAY’S 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 0.002 100 4718499
NTL New Talisman Gold 0.0015 50 2953992
VPR Volt Power Group 0.003 50 68270
OEX Oilex Ltd 0.004 33 35777285
A8G Australasian Metals 0.505 29 820717
BIT Biotron Limited 0.1 27 15655336
CGB Cann Global Limited 0.0025 25 2792376
T3D 333D Limited 0.0025 25 2495593
TSC Twenty Seven Co. Ltd 0.005 25 1443317
ENR Encounter Resources 0.16 23 1357451
TNY Tinybeans Group Ltd 0.67 23 36475
XPN Xpon Technologies 0.245 23 4293339
PGD Peregrine Gold 0.445 20 680969
LCT Living Cell Tech. 0.006 20 12367691
ROO Roots Sustainable 0.006 20 1617272
CBL Control Bionics 0.475 17 3201
REZ Resourc & En Grp Ltd 0.058 16 736734
REC Rechargemetals 0.19 15 72500
ADO Anteotech Ltd 0.195 15 4484249
CZR CZR Resources Ltd 0.008 14 2497253
GML Gateway Mining 0.016 14 4602914
POL Polymetals Resources 0.16 14 199407
OVTDA Ovato Limited 0.25 14 60000
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The smallest of nanocaps (feathercap?), Amani Gold (ASX:ANL) has launched a 3,500m drilling program to grow the 4.1Moz Kebigada gold deposit, part of the ‘Giro’ project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Surface sampling at Encounter Resources’ (ASX:ENR) ‘Sandover’ copper project in the NT confirmed high grade copper (up to 20.9%) at four separate areas totalling over 6km of strike.

Biotron (ASX:BIT) – on fire since it announced its lead antiviral drug BIT225 was effective against COVID-19 in animals – jumped again after extending its BIT225 Phase 2 HIV-1 trial to include a second Australian site.

Family-focused photo sharing app Tinybeans (ASX:TNY)  says it’s on track for a record quarter in December.

And rising on its ASX debut was XPON Technologies (ASX:XPN), which provides cloud-based marketing technology solutions.

 

YESTERDAY’S LOSERS

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

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Code Company Price % Volume
IDT IDT Australia Ltd 0.29 -40 8697663
NPM Newpeak Metals 0.0015 -25 250000
SCT Scout Security Ltd 0.029 -22 3346010
AGS Alliance Resources 0.145 -22 3750
ENT Enterprise Metals 0.013 -19 338500
M2M Mtmalcolmminesnl 0.115 -18 686842
AIR Astivita Ltd 0.65 -16 1467
PRS Prospech Limited 0.063 -15 36138
SBW Shekel Brainweigh 0.205 -15 168010
AJM Altura Mining Ltd 0.012 -14 80285063
IVT Inventis Limited 0.095 -14 277878
KLR Kaili Resources Ltd 0.027 -13 119000
RNX Renegade Exploration 0.007 -13 1146269
PXX Polarx Limited 0.032 -12 1286391
CCR Credit Clear 0.475 -12 402698
PNN PepinNini Minerals 0.41 -11 543100
MMC Mitremining 0.18 -10 277410
RCR Rincon 0.135 -10 176307
ARO Astro Resources NL 0.0045 -10 1000000
BUY Bounty Oil & Gas NL 0.009 -10 9209150
TRU Truscreen 0.072 -10 203100
JAY Jayride Group 0.19 -9.5238 38579
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The Australian Government has confirmed that IDT’s (ASX:IDT) onshore mRNA manufacturing capability (ATM) bid has not been selected to progress to the next stage of the process.

Weighing tech stock Shekel Brainweigh (ASX:SBW) got hammered after raising $1.3m at a ~17% discount to the last closing price.