10 Hottest Stocks From October 22, 2018

This list of stocks was generated by tracking the most popular ticker searches on the Benzinga Pro real-time news platform.

Readers can rely on this daily list to offer insight into which stocks retail investors are most interested in during a given trading session. In addition to providing the list itself, this article offers a quick glimpse into why a certain stock may be trending.

1. Shares of Top Ships Inc. TOPS surged 55.12 percent to $1.97 on no obvious Monday catalyst.
2. Net Element, Inc. NETE increased 53.75 percent to $6.15 after the company launched a payment service aimed at the cannabis industry.
3. Shares of Planet Green Holdings Corp. PLAG fell 63.34 percent to $4.22. Shares resumed trading after being halted Friday following a 330-percent runup.
4. CollPlant Holdings Ltd. CLGN rose 10 percent to $6.05 after announcing a license with United Therapeutics UTHR to develop 3D bioprinted lung transplants.
5. Shares of SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc. SLS fell 14.10 percent to $1.34 following the company’s final data in the clinical trial of Nelipepimut-S, a treatment for breast cancer.
6. Hasbro, Inc. HAS fell 3.09 percent to $95.01 after a big third-quarter earnings miss.
7. Shares of Euroseas Ltd. ESEA surged 81.82 percent to $2.40 on high volume.
8. JetPay Corp. JTPY increased 133.96 percent to $4.96 after NCR Corp. NCR agreed to purchase JetPay for $184 million.
9. Shares of Origin Agritech Limited SEED fell 13.96 percent to $5.98 after the company announced the entry into a share subscription agreement with Longhan Investment Management.
10. Dynavax Technologies Corp. DVAX rose 11.02 percent to $12.09 after sharing data from a study called Synergy-001, a trial investigating patients with melanoma.