Today, we have picked 14 stocks across sectors of U.S. & Canada which have registered over 100% increase in trading volumes with strong price gains touching their 52-week highs last week. These stocks have registered significant increase in daily average trading volumes during the past five days compared with past one month daily average trading volumes, indicating a strong market interest. During last week, these stocks have registered price gains ranging from 3.0% to 144.0% with daily average trading volumes in excess of 100,000.
Company Name |
Ticker |
Exchange |
Sector |
Market Cap |
Last Price |
Price Change (5-Day) |
Average Volume |
Average Volume |
Volume Change* |
52-Week High |
52-Week Low |
eCrypt Technologies Inc |
ECRY |
OTC BB |
Technology |
42.67 |
0.33 |
144.1% |
5,969,075 |
1,012,782 |
489.4% |
0.39 |
0.08 |
Magal Security Systems Ltd |
MAGS |
NASDAQ |
Industrial |
81.22 |
5.03 |
11.5% |
1,650,395 |
310,308 |
431.9% |
6.18 |
3.21 |
Oplink Communications Inc |
OPLK |
NASDAQ |
Communications |
409.62 |
24.14 |
14.8% |
2,190,285 |
482,530 |
353.9% |
24.22 |
13.91 |
TC PipeLines LP |
TCP |
NYSE |
Energy |
4,803.35 |
75.57 |
7.3% |
1,901,786 |
470,153 |
304.5% |
80.46 |
43.06 |
Blonder Tongue Laboratories |
BDR |
NYSE |
Industrial |
12.96 |
2.08 |
17.5% |
1,266,820 |
319,549 |
296.4% |
2.43 |
0.75 |
Mind CTI Ltd |
MNDO |
NASDAQ |
Technology |
67.23 |
3.59 |
14.7% |
1,229,220 |
311,745 |
294.3% |
3.80 |
1.84 |
Prometic Life Sciences Inc |
PLI |
TSX |
Healthcare |
1,078.56 |
2.03 |
4.6% |
8,124,006 |
2,441,432 |
232.8% |
2.21 |
0.81 |
Hamilton Thorne Ltd |
HTL |
TSXV |
Healthcare |
14.58 |
0.28 |
75.0% |
424,551 |
133,419 |
218.2% |
0.35 |
0.04 |
La Quinta Holdings Inc |
LQ |
NYSE |
Consumer Discretionary |
2,771.32 |
21.20 |
3.3% |
2,837,826 |
909,872 |
211.9% |
21.30 |
16.01 |
GoldSpike Exploration Inc |
GSE |
TSXV |
Basic Materials |
19.29 |
0.36 |
2.9% |
367,900 |
119,233 |
208.6% |
0.53 |
0.02 |
Terra Firma Capital Corp |
TII |
TSXV |
Financial |
32.06 |
0.79 |
12.9% |
573,430 |
203,818 |
181.3% |
0.79 |
0.35 |
Nevsun Resources Ltd |
NSU |
TSX |
Basic Materials |
940.34 |
4.71 |
15.7% |
1,165,150 |
436,338 |
167.0% |
5.30 |
3.18 |
Covenant Transportation Group Inc |
CVTI |
NASDAQ |
Industrial |
431.05 |
24.48 |
11.3% |
565,783 |
268,884 |
110.4% |
25.25 |
7.21 |
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc |
SCMP |
NASDAQ |
Healthcare |
518.00 |
11.68 |
3.4% |
435,494 |
210,653 |
106.7% |
12.58 |
5.80 |
Source: Bloomberg
*Volume Change: 5-Day average volume over 30-Day average volume
*Market cap & last price are in their respective currencies
Company Description
eCrypt Technologies Inc (OTC BB: ECRY)
eCrypt Technologies, Inc. developed and markets software that encrypts emails sent to and from a popular personal data assistant (PDA).
Magal Security Systems Ltd (NASDAQ: MAGS)
Magal Security Systems Ltd. develops, manufactures, and markets computerized security systems. The company produces perimeter security systems, video motion detection systems, and a security management system that integrates management, control, and display of multiple security inputs into a single database. Magal also offers video monitoring services.
Oplink Communications Inc (NASDAQ: OPLK)
Oplink Communications, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supplies fiber optic components and integrated optical modules that increase the performance of optical networks. The company sells its products worldwide to communication equipment suppliers.
TC PipeLines LP (NYSE: TCP)
TC Pipelines, LP acquires, owns, and participates in the management of United States-based pipeline assets. The company owns interest in the Northern Border Pipeline Company, the owner of an interstate pipeline system that transports natural gas from the Montana-Saskatchewan border to natural gas markets in the Midwestern United States.
Blonder Tongue Laboratories (NYSE: BDR)
Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc. designs, manufactures, and supplies electronics and systems equipment for the franchised and private cable television industries. The company’s products are used in the acquisition, conversion, distribution, and protection of communications signals on fiber optic, coaxial cable, and wireless distribution systems.
Mind CTI Ltd (NASDAQ: MNDO)
MIND C. T. I. Ltd. provides real-time mediation, rating, billing, and customer care solutions for pre-paid and post-paid voice, data, and content. The company’s customers include worldwide carriers servicing millions of subscribers.
Prometic Life Sciences Inc (TSX: PLI)
ProMetic Life Sciences, Inc. is an international bio-pharmaceutical company. The company, through its subsidiaries, researches, develops, manufactures and markets a variety of commercial applications from its core technology. ProMetic’s applications are used in therapeutics, large-scale drug purification, chemical genomics and proteomics, drug delivery and drug development.
Hamilton Thorne Ltd (TSXV: HTL)
Hamilton Thorne Ltd. provides laser systems and instruments for in-vitro cell applications in the regenerative medicine research and fertility clinic markets.
La Quinta Holdings Inc (NYSE: LQ)
La Quinta Holdings Inc is the owner, operator and franchisor of select-service hotels primarily serving the midscale and upper-midscale segments under the La Quinta brand.
GoldSpike Exploration Inc (TSXV: GSE)
GoldSpike Exploration, Inc. is a junior mineral exploration company. The company focuses on defining a zinc resource at its 100% owned Lone Mountain project located near Eureka, Nevada and whose claims completely surround a past-producing zinc property.
GoldSpike Exploration also holds interest in mineral claims, in the Yukon Territory.
Terra Firma Capital Corp (TSXV: TII)
Terra Firma Capital Corporation is a real estate finance company that provides customized equity and debt solutions to the real estate industry. The company is engaged in the arrangement of and participation in real property financings secured by investment properties and commercial and residential real estate developments, throughout Canada and the United States.
Nevsun Resources Ltd (TSX: NSU)
Nevsun Resources Ltd. is the operator of the Bisha Mine which began construction in 2008 and commercial production in 2011. The mine produced gold-silver dore until 2013 when the product switched to copper in concentrate and will expand to also produce Zinc concentrates.
Covenant Transportation Group Inc (NASDAQ: CVTI)
Covenant Transport Group, Inc., a truckload carrier, offers just-in-time and other specialty transportation services for customers throughout the United States. The company offers temperature-controlled transportation service for shippers primarily in the frozen food and consumer products industries.
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: SCMP)
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. researches and develops drugs based on protones, which are derived from functional fatty acids. The company produces a prescription drug for the treatment of chronic idiopathic constipation.
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