Gainers
- The New Home Company Inc. NWHM jumped 82.9% to settle at $8.89 on Friday after the company agreed to be acquired by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management for $9 per share in all-cash transaction.
- Veoneer Inc VNE jumped 56.4% to close at $31.17. Canadian company Magna International Inc agreed to buy Veoneer for about $3.8 billion in cash.
- NRX Pharmaceuticals Inc NRXP jumped 50.6% to close at $24.77. NRX Pharmaceuticals shares jumped around 63% on Thursday after the company announced the first successful commercial formulation for ZYESAMI, enabling volume manufacture, shipping and stockpiling of COVID-19 medication subject to regulatory approval.
- Socket Mobile Inc SCKT shares gained 44% to close at $8.35 after the company reported better-than-expected Q2 results.
- Xenetic Biosciences Inc XBIO shares surged 35.5% to close at $2.52 on Friday on abnormally-high volume.
- Acorda Therapeutics Inc ACOR shares gained 24.2% to close at $4.73 after the company announced an agreement to commercialize INBRIJA in Spain.
- ATA Creativity Global AACG gained 24% to close at $4.13.
- Snap Inc SNAP gained 23.8% to close at $77.97 after the company reported stronger-than-expected earnings and sales results for its second quarter and also issued upbeat Q3 sales guidance. The company also saw daily active users increase 23% year over year to 293 million.
- Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. EVLV gained 21.5% to close at $10.70. Evolv Technologies 13G filing from Gates Frontier showed a 10.6% stake in the company.
- Forward Pharma A/S FWP gained 20.8% to close at $17.66.
- Clearfield, Inc. CLFD surged 19.1% to settle at $43.18 after the company reported better-than-expected Q3 EPS and sales results and raised FY21 sales guidance above estimates.
- Impel NeuroPharma, Inc. IMPL rose 16.4% to close at $13.46.
- Prelude Therapeutics Incorporated PRLD gained 16.4% to settle at $34.06.
- Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. AMEH gained 15.8% to close at $112.84.
- Cyclerion Therapeutics, Inc. CYCN surged 14.7% to close at $4.13 after the company announced it will present trial design for CY6463 Phase 2a study in patients with Alzheimer's disease with vascular pathology.
- Taboola.com, Ltd. TBLA gained 14.4% to settle at $10.30. Taboola.com agreed to acquire Connexity from Symphony Technology Group for $800 million.
- Arvinas, Inc. ARVN climbed 13% to close at $95.47. Oppenheimer and Citigroup raised their price targets on the stock. Arvinas recently announced a global collaboration with Pfizer to develop and commercialize PROTAC protein degrader ARV-471.
- Support.com, Inc. SPRT gained 12.7% to settle at $6.18.
- Roku, Inc. ROKU climbed 12.6% to close at $473.65.
- Couchbase, Inc. BASE rose 11.8% to close at $33.99. Couchbase surged around 27% on Thursday as the company priced its IPO at $24 per share.
- The Trade Desk, Inc. TTD gained 9.5% to close at $81.15 after Stephens and Co. upgraded the stock from Equal-Weight to Overweight.
- Unicycive Therapeutics, Inc. UNCY climbed 9.2% to settle at $2.98.
- Robert Half International Inc. RHI gained 7.4% to close at $92.87 after the company reported better-than-expected Q2 results.
- XTL Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. XTLB rose 7.2% to close at $4.45.
- Skechers USA Inc SKX rose 5.9% to close at $54.22 after the company swung to a profit in the second quarter. The company also issued Q3 & FY21 EPS guidance and FY21 sales guidance above estimates.
- Verb Technology Company, Inc. VERB gained 5.5% to close at $2.49 after declining around 15% on Thursday.
- Twitter Inc TWTR rose 3.1% to settle at $71.69 as the company reported better-than-expected results for its second quarter and issued strong sales guidance for the current quarter. The company ended the second quarter with 206 million monetizable daily active users, which was up from 186 million in the prior year and 199 million in the first quarter.
Check out these big penny stock gainers and losers
Losers
- TAL Education Group TAL shares dipped 70.8% to close at $6.00 on Friday after a Bloomberg report suggested that China is considering asking tutoring firms to transition into non-profits, as the country continues its crackdown on the industry. TAL Education is expected to release quarterly earnings on August 5.
- Gaotu Techedu Inc GOTU shares dipped 63.3% to settle at $3.52 after a Bloomberg report suggested that China is considering asking tutoring firms to transition into non-profits, as the country continues its crackdown on the industry.
- New Oriental Education & Tech Grp EDU shares fell 54.2% to close at $2.93 after a Bloomberg report suggested that China is considering asking tutoring firms to transition into non-profits, as the country continues its crackdown on the industry. New Oriental Education is expected to release Q4 earnings on August 3.
- Sentage Holdings Inc. SNTG fell 43.7% to close at $6.50.
- China Online Education Group - ADR COE declined 43.1% to close at $3.80 following a Bloomberg report suggesting China is considering asking tutoring firms to turn into non-profits. The company recent said it expects net revenues for the second quarter to be between RMB575 million and RMB580 million.
- Youdao, Inc. DAO dipped 42.8% to close at $12.69 following a Bloomberg report suggesting China is considering asking tutoring firms to turn into non-profits.
- RISE Education Cayman Ltd REDU declined 40.5% to close at $1.35 following a Bloomberg report suggesting China is considering asking tutoring firms to turn into non-profits.
- 17 Education & Technology Group Inc-ADR YQ shares fell 38.7% to close at $1.41 after a Bloomberg report suggested that China is considering asking tutoring firms to transition into non-profits, as the country continues its crackdown on the industry.
- Moxian, Inc. MOXC dropped 37% to close at $17.61.
- Immunoprecise Antibodies Ltd IPA dipped 35.4% to close at $8.54. ImmunoPrecise Antibodies shares jumped 138% on Thursday after the company announced its TATX-03 PolyTope Therapy demonstrated potent pseudovirus neutralizing activity against the COVID-19 Delta variant in vitro..
- Zhangmen Education Inc. ZME dipped 35.2% to close at $6.18 following a Bloomberg report suggesting China is considering asking tutoring firms to turn into non-profits.
- Puxin Ltd NEW fell 33.3% to close at $0.84 following a Bloomberg report suggesting China is considering asking tutoring firms to turn into non-profits.
- India Globalization Capital, Inc. IGC shares dipped 32.9% to close at $1.88. India Globalization Capital jumped 89% on Thursday after the company announced the issuance of a patent for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease using THC.
- Nova LifeStyle, Inc. NVFY fell 31.2% to close at $2.40 after the company announced it priced its 1.114 million share registered direct offering at $2.80 per share.
- Chembio Diagnostics, Inc. CEMI fell 29% to close at $3.06. Chembio Diagnostics recently said it received a $4 million purchase order from the Partnership for Supply Chain Management (PFSCM), supported by The Global Fund.
- Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd. YMM dropped 28.4% to close at $10.85.
- Boston Beer Company Inc SAM shares dipped 26% to close at $701.00 after the company reported Q2 EPS of $4.75, down from $4.88 year over year and worse-than-expected Q2 sales results. The company also issued FY21 EPS guidancebelow estimates.
- Studio City International Holdings Limited MSC fell 24.5% to settle at $9.19.
- Wah Fu Education Group Limited WAFU declined 23.6% to close at $5.85 following a Bloomberg report suggesting China is considering asking tutoring firms to turn into non-profits.
- Adverum Biotechnologies Inc ADVM declined 22.9% to close at $2.36 after the company decided to drop the development of ADVM-022 intravitreal (IVT) injection gene therapy in diabetic macular edema (DME) after dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) was observed at the high dose (6 x 10^11 vg/eye) in patients with DME. SVB Leerink maintained Adverum Biotechnologies with a Market Perform and lowered the price target from $5 to $2.
- Agora Inc API shares dropped 21.4% to close at $26.01 after declining over 4% on Thursday.
- DiDi Global Inc. DIDI fell 21% to settle at $8.06, continuing to dip following recent reports suggesting China is said to weigh penalties on the company.
- iHuman Inc. IH dropped 21.4% to settle at $8.25.
- MDJM Ltd MDJH fell 20.8% to close at $5.08.
- Universe Pharmaceuticals Inc UPC shares dropped 20.6% to close at $3.04 after surging around 45% on Thursday.
- First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. FHS declined 20.2% to settle at $5.03 following a Bloomberg report suggesting China is considering asking tutoring firms to turn into non-profits.
- AzurRx BioPharma Inc AZRX shares fell 19.7% to close at $0.5690 after the company reported a $3.0 million bought deal offering of common stock.
- RYB Education, Inc. RYB dropped 19.6% to settle at $3.99 following a Bloomberg report suggesting China is considering asking tutoring firms to turn into non-profits.
- Tarena International, Inc. TEDU fell 18.4% to close at $2.35 following a Bloomberg report suggesting China is considering asking tutoring firms to turn into non-profits.
- Ambow Education Holding Ltd. AMBO dipped 17.1% to settle at $1.74 following a Bloomberg report suggesting China is considering asking tutoring firms to turn into non-profits.
- TDH Holdings, Inc. PETZ fell 17% to close at $2.74.
- Data Storage Corporation DTST dropped 16.8% to settle at $4.16.
- Baozun Inc. BZUN fell 16.8% to close at $26.52. Credit Suisse analyst Ashley Xu downgraded Baozun to Underperform from Outperform with a price target of $23.
- Nisun International Enterprise Development Group Co., Ltd NISN fell 16% to close at $10.10.
- Lava Therapeutics B.V. LVTX declined 15.8% to close at $7.90.
- Sequential Brands Group, Inc. SQBG dropped 15.4% to close at $9.92.
- X Financial XYF fell 15.3% to close at $7.31
- Neurometrix Inc NURO fell 15.2% to settle at $20.97. NeuroMetrix shares gained around 19% on Thursday after the company reported Q2 sales of $2.20 million, up from $1.36 million year over year.
- Summit Wireless Technologies, Inc. WISA dropped 15% to settle at $3.91. Summit Wireless Technologies agreed to sell 2.5 million shares at $4 per share in a secondary institutional placement.
- Huize Holding Limited HUIZ fell 14.3% to close at $4.25.
- Applied DNA Sciences Inc APDN fell 13.6% to close at $5.60 after jumping 18% on Thursday.
- Co-Diagnostics, Inc. CODX dropped 13.5% to close at $9.12. Co-Diagnostics recently highlighted new international CoPrimer patent.
- RLX Technology Inc - ADR RLX fell 13% to close at $4.97 after declining over 7% on Thursday.
- Wheels Up Experience Inc. UP fell 12.8% to close at $8.28.
- DMC Global Inc. BOOM dipped 11.3% to close at $41.84 after the company reported worse-than-expected Q2 results and issued Q3 sales guidance below estimates.
- KE Holdings Inc. BEKE fell 10.9% to close at $33.80.
- BSQUARE Corporation BSQR shares fell 6.3% to settle at $2.82. On July 6, 2021, software solutions provider BSQUARE entered into a Side Letter with B. Riley Securities, Inc to sell shares having an aggregate offering price of up to $50 million under the company’s Form S-3 filed on March 18.
- Elite Education Group International Ltd EEIQ fell 5.4% to close at $4.05. Elite Education Group recently reported 1H sales of $3.1 million, down from $6.1 million year over year.
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