Top 10 at 10: The ASX stocks soaring and staggering today

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.30am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data.

It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers in percentage terms.

The market opens at 10am (eastern time) and the data is taken at 10:15am, once every ASX stock has commenced trading.

WINNERS

Stocks highlighted in yellow have made market-moving announcements (click headings to sort).

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Ardea Resources (ASX:ARL) says it has made a nickel discovery at Emu Lake, with drilling returning high grade massive sulphides up to 8.3% nickel. Mineralisation is open in all directions, it says.

And red hot Ai chip maker Brainchip (ASX:BRN) has submitted notice to sell 15m shares, with proceeds used to “expand our go-to-market capabilities as we move the company aggressively into the commercialisation phase”, says CEO Sean Hehir.  The stocks is now up 130% over the past month.

LOSERS

Stocks highlighted in yellow have made market-moving announcements (click headings to sort).

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Castillo Copper (ASX:CCZ) will no longer pursue a couple of lithium acquisitions; instead, it will focus on modelling a cobalt resource at the Broken Hill Alliance Project’s East Zone.