Gainers

  • Superconductor Technologies Inc. SCON shares jumped 107.1% to $0.4079. Superconductor Technologies and Allied Integral United announced a merger agreement.
  • NuCana plc NCNA shares climbed 38.9% to $8.02.
  • Omeros Corporation OMER shares climbed 38.6% to $17.45 after the company reported Narsoplimab HSCT-TMA results surpassed the FDA-agreed efficacy threshold. The company also reported upbeat quarterly sales.
  • Digirad Corporation DRAD shares rose 37.5% to $3.37.
  • GenMark Diagnostics, Inc. GNMK gained 28.8% to $4.52 after the company reported Q4 earnings results.
  • Capstone Turbine Corporation CPST surged 20% to $2.54.
  • KemPharm, Inc. KMPH rose 16.2% to $0.38 after the company submitted KP415 NDA to the FDA for the treatment of ADHD.
  • Boingo Wireless Inc WIFI rose 15.5% to $13.74 after the company reported Q4 earnings.
  • Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. INO gained 15.3% to $5.06. Inovio Pharmaceuticals announced an accelerated timeline Tuesday for the development of its INO-4800 vaccine targeting the COVID-19 virus. Inovio said it plans to have 1 million doses of the INO-4800 COVID-19 DNA vaccine produced by the end of 2020 either for an emergency or for further trials.
  • Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd. MTA gained 15.1% to $5.40.
  • Trillium Therapeutics Inc. TRIL rose 14.6% to $5.44 after surging over 26% on Monday.
  • Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. APT shares rose 14.6% to $18.33.
  • QIAGEN N.V. QGEN shares rose 14.5% to $41.36. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. TMO announced plans to acquire QIAGEN for 10.4 billion euros ($11.6 billion).
  • Gold Resource Corporation GORO gained 14.4% to $4.93 after the company updated its proven & probable reserves.
  • DRDGOLD Limited DRD gained 13.4% to $7.36.
  • Theratechnologies Inc. THTX climbed 13.2% to $2.74.
  • Genworth Financial, Inc. GNW rose 12.8% to $4.7150 after the company and China Oceanwide Holdings reached an agreement in principle with the New York State Department of Financial Services on conditions expected to facilitate reapproval of merger.
  • 500.com Limited WBAI surged 12% to $6.05.
  • Homology Medicines, Inc. FIXX rose 11.8% to $19.00.
  • Veeco Instruments Inc. VECO gained 11.7% to $15.04. Stifel Nicolaus upgraded Veeco Instruments from Hold to Buy and raised the price target from $14 to $18.
  • AngloGold Ashanti Limited AU climbed 11.6% to $20.62.
  • Autolus Therapeutics plc AUTL rose 9.9% to $9.23.
  • Sterling Construction Company, Inc. STRL gained 9.5% to $14.87 following strong quarterly sales.


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Losers

  • China Pharma Holdings, Inc. CPHI fell 28.1% to $0.82. China Pharma shares jumped 100% on Monday after the company announced a wash-free sanitizer in response to the coronavirus.
  • Ritter Pharmaceuticals, Inc. RTTR fell 27.6% to $0.4438 after slipping over 11% on Monday.
  • Daxor Corporation DXR dropped 24.2% to $10.80. Daxor shares rose 65.7% on Monday after the company said hospitals are using its blood volume analyzer to prevent coronavirus deaths.
  • InflaRx N.V. IFRX shares declined 23.2% to $4.67.
  • Heat Biologics, Inc. HTBX fell 19.4% to $0.6450. Heat Biologics shares jumped more than 142% on Monday after the Durham, North, Carolina-based biopharma company said in an SEC filing that it has filed a provisional patent application that would apply its immune system activating technology for the treatment or prevention ofCOVID-19, the new coronavirus originating from Wuhan, China.
  • Novan Inc NOVN fell 18.8% to $0.3794 after the company filed 14 million share common stock offering, including warrants.
  • Vaxart, Inc. VXRT fell 18% to $1.92 after dropping more than 18% on Monday.
  • OpGen, Inc. OPGN dipped 16.8% to $2.8386.
  • BOQI International Medical Inc. BIMI tumbled 16.5% to $4.175.
  • Altimmune, Inc. ALT shares fell 15.8% to $2.66 after declining about 15% on Monday.
  • Precigen, Inc. PGEN dropped 15.3% to $3.31 after the company reported worse-than-expected Q4 sales results.
  • iBio, Inc. IBIO shares dipped 15% to $1.88. iBio highlighted withdrawal of proxy statement proposal related to amend its certificate of incorporation to authorize possible reverse stock split.
  • Tilray, Inc. TLRY fell 14.1% to $13.19. Tilray reported a net loss of $219.2 million, or $2.14 a share for the fourth quarter, versus a year-ago loss of $31 million or $0.33 per share. The company also reported worse-than-expected Q4 sales.
  • Novavax, Inc. NVAX fell 13.7% to $10.37. Novavax shares tumbled around 25% on Monday following news of a $150 million common stock offering via B. Riley FBR.
  • Vir Biotechnology, Inc. VIR fell 13.4% to $39.05.
  • Titan International, Inc. TWI dipped 13.4% to $1.8350.
  • Red Violet, Inc. RDVT shares declined 13.3% to $22.97.
  • Co-Diagnostics, Inc. CODX fell 13.1% to $15.47. Co-Diagnostics shares gained around 35% on Monday after the company announced it will provide COVID-19 tests to US CLIA labs.
  • GreenSky, Inc. GSKY dropped 12.7% to $6.87.
  • Mallinckrodt plc MNK shares declined 11.4% to $3.7397.
  • Nine Energy Service, Inc. NINE slipped 11.3% to $3.15.
  • FlexShopper, Inc. FPAY shares fell 10% to $2.6016.
  • Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc KPTI fell 9.9% to $24.97 after the company announced a proposed public offering of common stock of $150 million.
  • OptimizeRx Corporation OPRX shares dipped 9.5% to $7.34.
  • Axos Financial, Inc. AX fell 8.8% to $23.66.
  • Cronos Group Inc. CRON dropped 8.8% to $5.49. Cronos Group said Monday it has submitted a Form 12b-25 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to postpone the date of filing its annual report for 15 days.
  • Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. APDN shares fell 7.5% to $4.79 after rising around 30% on Monday.
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