Weekly ASX small cap wrap: Who can't afford to put pork on their fork this week?

Gold? Pfffft. Another commodity that’s reaching new heights in 2020 is pork.

Pork prices were already rising in 2019 and have continued to in 2020. Bloomberg estimates they have risen another 50 per cent over the last 12 months.

Spiralling prices and government incentives have led to a significant expansion of China’s hog farms. The government has approved over 20,000 new hog farms in the first half of 2020.

But swine fever hitting almost half of China’s herds has ensured that prices continued to stay high.

Rabobank analyst Pan Chenjun estimates herd inventories won’t return to normal levels until 2023-24.

Now to the Aussie stock market and here are this week’s big movers.

ASX SMALL CAP WINNERS

Jaxsta (ASX:JXT) +233%

The music data base company surged on Wednesday with a new global deal from a US song licensing partner.

The five-year deal with Songtradr will see the two companies create an integrated platform, which will provide Jaxsta users with a channel to identify “missing performer income from sound recordings”.

Along with the payment of a $500,000 up-front licensing fee, Songtradr will also invest in Jaxsta through $1.42m in convertible notes.

Los Cerros (ASX:LCL) +161%

Of all the ASX’s 180+ gold stocks, few have projects in Latin America but Los Cerros is one of them.

The company is prospecting in Colombia’s Mid Cauca belt. Its Miraflores project has an estimated net present value of $US89m ($122.5m) at a gold price of $US1,400/oz.

It said drilling at its Tesorito gold prospect in Colombia demonstrated gold mineralisation of more than 1 gram per tonne (g/t) over an area of 300m by 250m.

Change Financial (ASX:CCA) +65%

The fintech stock surged on Friday after a capital raising that helped it snap up the regional assets of payments company Wirecard in a $7.8m deal.

The company told shareholders the deal provided the opportunity to increase its addressable market in the US by 10 times.

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks for September 4 – 11 [intraday]:

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Code	Name	Price	% Return	Market Cap
JXT	Jaxsta	0.1	233	$ 15,401,252.45
CWL	Consol Financial Hld	0.015	200	$ 1,775,589.17
LCL	Los Cerros Limited	0.18	161	$ 60,089,870.28
RIM	Rimfire Pacific	0.013	160	$ 17,430,286.80
CFE	Cape Lambert Res Ltd	0.007	133	$ 9,033,519.45
VIC	Victory Mines Ltd	0.004	100	$ 12,843,964.47
RDN	Raiden Resources Ltd	0.017	89	$ 8,617,178.45
NPM	Newpeak Metals	0.0035	75	$ 12,697,105.33
CCA	Change Financial Ltd	0.19	65	$ 32,629,429.67
VUL	Vulcan Energy	1.14	64	$ 69,301,841.28
FFR	Firefly Resources	0.195	63	$ 43,696,720.44
TSC	Twenty Seven Co. Ltd	0.008	60	$ 7,431,604.39
SBR	Sabre Resources	0.014	56	$ 16,258,401.35
SGC	Sacgasco Ltd	0.045	50	$ 10,887,348.00
FYI	FYI Resources Ltd	0.13	49	$ 30,345,331.88
TKM	Trek Metals Ltd	0.069	47	$ 14,071,363.99
OIL	Optiscan Imaging	0.099	46	$ 46,822,322.40
PUR	Pursuit Minerals	0.023	44	$ 8,254,686.32
PKD	Parkd Ltd	0.031	41	$ 2,104,200.00
ADN	Andromeda Metals Ltd	0.07	40	$ 111,045,839.73
MSR	Manas Res Ltd	0.007	40	$ 15,858,974.93
MBK	Metal Bank Ltd	0.011	38	$ 11,800,855.92
PKO	Peako Limited	0.055	38	$ 6,944,927.84
MPR	Mpower Group Limited	0.027	35	$ 3,971,160.40
ARR	American Rare Earths	0.043	34	$ 11,636,783.68
DEV	Devex Resources Ltd	0.275	34	$ 61,513,460.00
CYM	Cyprium Metals Ltd	0.185	32	$ 10,090,706.76
YOJ	Yojee Limited	0.27	32	$ 256,791,892.76

ASX SMALL CAP LOSERS

GetSwift (ASX:GSW) -31%

Shareholders have been selling off the logistics software stock since last Friday, when it announced it would delist from the ASX and re-domicile to Canada.

PharmAust (ASX:PAA) -25%

The biotech stock plunged on Wednesday despite telling shareholders its anti-cancer drug candidate Montepantel had shown anti-viral effects against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, in repeated tests using monkey cells.

While the company is planning human trials, it warned that activity in vitro did not always translate to humans.

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks for September 4 – 11 [intraday]:

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Code	Company	Price	% Return weekly	Market Cap
REY	REY Resources Ltd	0.085	-73	$ 65,769,736.09
TOM	Tomizone Limited	0.002	-33	$ 850,401.35
GSW	Getswift Limited	0.045	-31	$ 103,358,594.88
TMR	Tempus Resources Ltd	0.265	-28	$ 21,373,886.34
AUQ	Alara Resources Ltd	0.016	-27	$ 10,158,181.04
RML	Resolution Minerals	0.051	-27	$ 13,973,539.55
PAA	Pharmaust Limited	0.135	-27	$ 42,639,217.16
SZL	Sezzle Inc.	5.98	-26	$ 656,893,897.77
MAR	Malachite Resources	0.035	-26	$ 4,112,568.90
EER	East Energy Resource	0.003	-25	$ 12,803,948.14
TPD	Talon Petroleum Ltd	0.003	-25	$ 8,883,947.62
ROG	Red Sky Energy.	0.015	-25	$ 4,072,366.55
PCH	Property Connect	0.0015	-25	$ 1,028,795.21
TYM	Tymlez Group	0.105	-25	$ 22,400,516.96
KAS	Kasbah Resources	0.015	-25	$ 2,030,699.28
BPH	BPH Energy Ltd	0.038	-24	$ 20,760,052.33
CCG	Commschoice	0.08	-24	$ 17,225,303.31
KGD	Kula Gold Limited	0.032	-24	$ 4,985,780.22
DAF	Discovery Africa Ltd	0.03	-23	$ 6,067,040.94
HYD	Hydrix Limited	0.27	-23	$ 31,211,529.72
JAY	Jayride Group	0.17	-23	$ 17,867,384.88
NCZ	New Century Resource	0.12	-23	$ 117,431,848.68
MAG	Magmatic Resrce Ltd	0.175	-22	$ 35,488,636.09
PSC	Prospect Res Ltd	0.145	-22	$ 45,749,843.84
SMC	Strategic Minerals	0.55	-21	$ 53,080,387.80
CBY	Canterbury Resources	0.11	-21	$ 7,506,362.82
CGN	Crater Gold Min Ltd	0.011	-21	$ 13,502,454.54