Gainers
- Yield10 Bioscience Inc YTEN shares jumped 53.8% to close at $6.69 on Thursday after HC Wainwright & Co. initiated coverage on the company's stock with a Buy rating and announced a $25 price target.
- Virtusa Corporation VRTU shares gained 24.5% to close at $50.42 after Baring Private Equity Asia announced plans to acquire the company for $51.35 per share in cash.
- Quhuo Limited QH shares climbed 24.5% to close at $8.32. Quhuo reported Q2 results last month.
- Agenus Inc. AGEN climbed 23.8% to close at $5.19.
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. PRTK climbed 21.1% to close at $5.63.
- Restoration Hardware Holdings, Inc RH gained 20.1% to close at $385.46 after the company reported stronger-than-expected results for its second quarter. The company also said it expects to reach 20% adjusted operating margin in FY20.
- TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. TCON climbed 18.5% to close at $4.23. TRACON Pharmaceuticals, last week, announced additional $5 million private placement.
- Pulse Biosciences, Inc. PLSE climbed 15.6% to close at $10.94. Pulse Biosciences, last month, posted a loss for the second quarter.
- Kraton Corporation KRA surged 15.6% to close at $16.80. Kraton is seeking approval for BIAXAMTM as a self-sterilizing sulfonated polymer.
- IGM Biosciences, Inc. IGMS rose 14.3% to close at $60.47. IGM Biosciences reported Q2 results last month.
- Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição CBD gained 13.9% to close at $13.30.
- Navistar International Corporation NAV shares climbed 13.8% to close at $40.78 after Bloomberg reported that Traton raised its offer price for the company from $35 per share to $43 per share.
- Co-Diagnostics, Inc. CODX shares rose 13.7% to close at $11.62. Co-Diagnostics recently entered into an agreement with Arches Research to expand its coronavirus testing services.
- Checkpoint Therapeutics, Inc. CKPT gained 13.4% to close at $2.80. Checkpoint Therapeutics released quarterly results last month.
- Corvus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CRVS rose 12.9% to close at $3.95 after the company issued an update on clinical trial of CPI-006 for patients with coronavirus.
- Purple Innovation Inc PRPL surged 12.2% to close at $22.59 after the company announced a secondary offering of approximately 11.8 million shares at $18.50 per share.
- Nkarta, Inc. NKTX gained 12.1% to close at $31.41.
- Agile Therapeutics, Inc. AGRX surged 12% to close at $3.54. Agile Therapeutics, last month, reported upbeat quarterly earnings.
- SelectQuote, Inc. SLQT shares gained 11.4% to close at $22.34 after the company reported better-than-expected Q2 results.
- Forte Biosciences, Inc. FBRX climbed 11.1% to close at $35.34. Chardan Capital maintained Forte Biosciences with a Buy and raised the price target from $45 to $60.
- Kaleyra, Inc. KLR rose 10.2% to close at $8.29. Kaleyra launched verified calls services for Google.
- Rockwell Medical, Inc. RMTI rose 9.8% to close at $1.35 after the company reported an exclusive license deal with Jeil Pharma for rights to commercialize Triferic in South Korea.
- Jaguar Health, Inc. JAGX climbed 8.6% to close at $0.38. Jaguar Health recently announced the launch of mental health Entheogen Therapeutics Initiative.
- Waitr Holdings Inc. WTRH rose 8.2% to close at $3.95.
- Overstock.com, Inc. OSTK shares gained 8.1% to close at $74.50 as the company reported that its tZERO was approved to launch retail broker-dealer subsidiary.
- Penn National Gaming, Inc. PENN climbed 7.7% to close at $62.46 after Rosenblatt initiated coverage on the stock with a Buy rating and an $80 price target.
- LMP Automotive Holdings, Inc. LMPX gained 7.5% to close at $18.59. LMP Automotive, last week, reported that it acquired 2 automotive dealerships in the Southeast.
- Limoneira Company LMNR rose 7.2% to close at $16.00 after reporting upbeat Q3 results.
- Sonoma Pharmaceuticals, Inc. SNOA rose 6.8% to close at $7.25 after the company and Te Arai BioPharma announced the launch of Nasocyn nasal care and Oracyn oral care products in Australia.
- nCino, Inc. NCNO climbed 6.5% to close at $84.20 after reporting results for the second quarter. B of A Securities raised the price target on the stock from $95 to $100.
- Verint Systems Inc. VRNT climbed 6.3% to close at $51.37 after reporting strong Q2 results. Needham maintained Verint with a Buy and raised the price target from $53 to $64.
- CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. CBL gained 6.1% to close at $0.1875 after declining around 5% on Wednesday. CBL & Associates Properties, last month, entered into a restructuring support agreement with noteholders to strengthen its capital structures.
- Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. STRM rose 5.7% to close at $1.66 after reporting upbeat quarterly results.
- DiamondPeak Holdings Corp. DPHC rose 5.6% to close at $21.10 after climbing more than 12% on Wednesday.
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Losers
- Satsuma Pharmaceuticals, Inc. STSA shares tumbled 75.9% to close at $5.62 on Thursday after reporting topline results from EMERGE Phase 3 trial of STS101 for acute treatment of migraine. The data did not show statistically significant differences between either dosage strength and placebo.
- Precipio, Inc. PRPO declined 23.4% to close at $2.19 after jumping over 21% on Wednesday. Precipio reported quarterly results last month.
- Muscle Maker, Inc. GRIL fell 23.3% to close at $1.88.
- PDC Energy, Inc. PDCE dipped 21.3% to close at $11.66 after the company launched $150 million tack-on senior notes offering.
- Superconductor Technologies, Inc. SCON shares declined 19.5% to close at $2.80. Superconductor Technologies’ 1-for-10 reverse stock split came into effect today.
- 500.com Limited WBAI dropped 18.8% to close at $3.29. 500.com yesterday reported resumption of operations in Sweden.
- CounterPath, Corp. CPAH fell 17.9% to close at $3.59 after the company reported results for the first quarter.
- FuelCell Energy, Inc FCEL fell 17.5% to close at $2.17 after the company reported Q3 results.
- Sutro Biopharma, Inc. STRO fell 16.4% to close at $11.00. Sutro Biopharma announced updated interim Phase 1 safety and preliminary efficacy data for STRO-002 in ovarian cancer, showing an overall response rate of 24% in 33 evaluable patients with post-baseline scans, with durability of 44% of patients on treatment for 16 weeks or greater and 12% of patients on treatment for 1 year or greater.
- Athenex Inc ATNX declined 16% to close at $11.09 after the company priced its 10 million share common stock offering at $11 per share.
- Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. IEA shares declined 15.7% to close at $4.90. Infrastructure And Energy Alternatives, last month, reported better-than-expected Q2 earnings.
- GameStop Corp. GME fell 15.2% to close at $6.23. GameStop reported a wider-than-expected loss for its second quarter, while sales also missed estimates.
- MICT, Inc. MICT dipped 14.5% to close at $4.85. MICT, last week, filed for mixed shelf offering of up to $250 million.
- SM Energy Company SM shares declined 13.3% to close at $1.82 as oil prices declined following a build in US crude inventories for the week ended September 4th.
- Spero Therapeutics Inc SPRO fell 13.1% to close at $11.12 after reporting an 8 million share common stock offering.
- SpringWorks Therapeutics, Inc. SWTX dropped 12.6% to close at $38.49. SpringWorks Therapeutics released quarterly results last month.
- Yunji Inc. YJ fell 12.4% to close at $1.97. Yunji reported Q2 results later during August.
- Nikola Corporation NKLA fell 11.3% to close at $37.57 after short-seller Hindenburg Research issued a bearish report on the stock.
- X4 Pharmaceuticals, Inc. XFOR fell 11.3% to close at $7.96. X4 Pharmaceuticals, last week, announced publication of mavorixafor Phase 2 clinical data for the treatment of WHIM syndrome in 'blood.'
- Canadian Solar Inc. CSIQ fell 10.6% to close at $27.67. Canadian Solar reported a proposed offering of US$200 million convertible senior notes.
- Portland General Electric Company POR fell 9.9% to close at $34.38.
- K12 Inc. LRN fell 9.5% to close at $30.55. Miami Herald reported that 'Miami-Dade school board voted to cut ties with K12 online learning platform.'
- Garrett Motion Inc. GTX shares dropped 9.5% to close at $3.24.
- BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. BIGC shares dropped 9.1% to close at $83.16 despite the company reported upbeat Q2 results and issued strong sales forecast.
- Quotient Ltd QTNT fell 5% to close at $4.82 after the company announced a $60 million common stock offering.
- Yum China Holdings, Inc. YUMC fell 4.8% to close at $50.66. Yum China generated $2.2 billion in its initial public offering by issuing 41.9 million shares in Hong Kong at approximately $53.16, according to Bloomberg.
- Avinger, Inc. AVGR fell 3.3% to close at $0.4149. Avinger, last month, priced its 11.06 million share public offering of common stock at $0.47 per share.
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