Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10 highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade.
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 stock has commenced trading.
Stocks highlighted in yellow have made potentially market-moving announcements:
| Code | Name | Price | % Chg | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BPH | BPH Energy Ltd | 0.002 | +100.00% | 500.0k |
| VIC | Victory Mines Ltd | 0.002 | +100.00% | 250.0k |
| ALT | Analytica Ltd | 0.004 | +33.33% | 250.0k |
| PGY | Pilot Energy Ltd | 0.06 | +33.33% | 817.7k |
| SGQ | St George Mining Ltd | 0.18 | +25.00% | 1.6M |
| BSX | Blackstone Minerals Ltd | 0.17 | +22.22% | 714.8k |
| PIL | Peppermint Innovation Ltd | 0.01 | +22.22% | 180.0k |
| DOR | Doriemus PLC | 0.03 | +21.43% | 13.1k |
| AUT | Auteco Minerals Ltd | 0.01 | +20.00% | 140.0k |
| AD1 | ApplyDirect Ltd | 0.02 | +20.00% | 196.7k |
Most of the early moves were in minnow stocks to start the day, while Hills Ltd (ASX: HIL) and Ocean Grown Abalone (ASX: OGA) both ticked higher after releasing FY19 earnings results.
On the other side of the ledger, gold and metals explorer First Au Ltd (ASX: FAU) slumped after an exploration update at its Gimlet project near Kalgoorlie.
These 10 stocks were lagging the pack in morning trade:
| Code | Name | Price | % Chg | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAU | First Au Ltd | 0.02 | -38.46% | 15.3M |
| MSR | Manas Resources Ltd | 0.003 | -25.00% | 700.0k |
| ALT | Analytica Ltd | 0.003 | -25.00% | 410.0k |
| MLS | Metals Australia Ltd | 0.004 | -20.00% | 2.0M |
| ARE | Argonaut Resources NL | 0.005 | -16.67% | 1.9M |
| ACF | Acrow Formwork and Constructio | 0.27 | -14.29% | 414.0k |
| FGO | Flamingo AI Ltd | 0.0035 | -12.50% | 33.3k |
| PNX | PNX METALS Ltd | 0.01 | -11.11% | 637.2k |
| PGR | PAS Group Ltd/The | 0.13 | -10.71% | 83.8k |
| BEM | Blackearth Minerals NL | 0.06 | -10.00% | 194.9k |