25 Stocks Moving In Thursday's Mid-Day Session

Gainers

• Vericity, Inc. VERY shares jumped 78% to $17.90.
• ORBCOMM Inc. ORBC surged 51% to $11.44. GI Partners has agreed to acquire Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider ORBCOMM for $1.1 billion, including net debt.
• Rice Acquisition Corp. RICE gained 33% to $13.40 after the company announced a merger agreement to combine Aria Energy and Archaea Energy into the industry-leading renewable natural gas platform.
• Auris Medical Holding Ltd. EARS rose 32% to $4.25. Auris Medical will provide business update on AM-301 program on April 13, 2021.
• Century Bancorp, Inc. CNBKA jumped 25% to $114.25. Eastern Bankshares, Inc. and Century Bancorp, announced they have entered into a definitive all-cash merger agreement.
• American Virtual Cloud Technologies, Inc. AVCT gained 23.1% to $7.15 after the company announced it received an unsolicited non-binding offer to acquires all shares of its common stock for $9 per share.
• PAR Technology Corporation PAR jumped 23.3% to $76.88 as the company said it acquired Punchh for $500 million in cash and stock.
• Prometheus Biosciences, Inc. RXDX rose 12.4% to $21.80.
• Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. MARA jumped 11% to $51.35 amid an increase in the price of bitcoin.
• Aluminum Corporation of China Limited ACH gained 10.4% to $12.06.
• Fortress Biotech, Inc. FBIO climbed 10.3% to $4.68. The company recently received a $7.5 million working capital line of credit.
• Identiv, Inc. INVE rose 8.2% to $11.55. Identiv priced 3.3 million shares at $10.65 per share to raise $35 million in gross proceeds in a secondary public offering.
• Immutep Limited IMMP gained 7.9% to $3.43. Immutep shares gained 5% on Wednesday after the company announced the grant of patent number EP3317301 entitled "Combination therapies comprising antibody molecules to LAG-3" by the European Patent Office.

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Losers

• United Time Technology Co., Ltd. UTME tumbled 33.5% to $54.65 after jumping 110% on Wednesday. The company recently priced its IPO at $4 per share.
• Astrotech Corporation ASTC dipped 30.3% to $1.54 after the company said it bought $10 million deal offering of its common stock.
• Bonso Electronics International Inc.BNSO fell 22.1% to $7.70 after climbing 45% on Wednesday.
• AeroCentury Corp. ACY dropped 13.8% to $10.85.
• Insignia Systems, Inc. ISIG dipped 13.6% to $6.21.
• SOS Limited SOS dropped 9.5% to $5.23 after climbing 28% on Wednesday.
• Odonate Therapeutics, Inc. ODT dipped 9.4% to $3.52 after gaining 12% on Wednesday.
• Southwestern Energy Company SWN fell 9.4% to $4.255.
• Landec Corporation LNDC fell 8.7% to $10.00 after the company reported downbeat Q3 results and issued weak FY21 sales guidance.
• Apogee Enterprises, Inc. APOG dropped 8.2% to $36.24 after the company reported downbeat Q4 sales and issued weak FY22 earnings forecast.
• Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. APDN fell 5.9% to $7.76. Applied DNA Sciences shares jumped 13% on Wednesday after the company, and Northwell Health, announced they established a SARS-CoV-2 mutation and variant tracking program.
• Amyris, Inc. AMRS fell 5.6% to $15.92 after the company announced a primary and secondary common stock offering.