Today we have chosen 11 stocks across sectors of the U.S. & Canada that have registered over
100% increases in trading volume 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 7.0% to 38.0% 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 |
|
Blonder Tongue Laboratories |
BDR |
NYSE |
Industrial |
11.03 |
1.77 |
36.2% |
474,651 |
115,421 |
311.2% |
1.93 |
0.75 |
|
Terra Firma Capital Corp |
TII |
TSXV |
Financial |
28.41 |
0.70 |
7.7% |
410,750 |
110,807 |
270.7% |
0.73 |
0.33 |
|
Susquehanna Bancshares Inc |
SUSQ |
NASDAQ |
Financial |
2,383.72 |
13.15 |
33.8% |
9,656,200 |
2,838,789 |
240.2% |
13.24 |
9.00 |
|
Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc |
SCMP |
NASDAQ |
Healthcare |
501.15 |
11.30 |
22.2% |
384,508 |
153,926 |
149.8% |
11.97 |
5.80 |
|
Sprylogics International Corp |
SPY |
TSXV |
Technology |
19.38 |
0.69 |
21.1% |
1,170,251 |
473,975 |
146.9% |
0.71 |
0.16 |
|
Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc |
ACHN |
NASDAQ |
Healthcare |
1,399.95 |
13.97 |
38.1% |
16,964,108 |
6,889,231 |
146.2% |
15.00 |
2.45 |
|
ICU Medical Inc |
ICUI |
NASDAQ |
Healthcare |
1,316.95 |
85.71 |
20.4% |
390,684 |
162,710 |
140.1% |
87.50 |
54.00 |
|
Cash America International Inc |
CSH |
NYSE |
Financial |
708.61 |
24.53 |
10.0% |
767,639 |
335,682 |
128.7% |
25.45 |
15.79 |
|
Luxoft Holding Inc |
LXFT |
NYSE |
Technology |
1,429.69 |
43.52 |
14.9% |
313,564 |
147,811 |
112.1% |
43.57 |
24.09 |
|
Prometic Life Sciences Inc |
PLI |
TSX |
Healthcare |
1,030.74 |
1.94 |
6.6% |
2,635,696 |
1,276,514 |
106.5% |
2.03 |
0.81 |
|
Motorcar Parts of America Inc |
MPAA |
NASDAQ |
Consumer Discretionary |
609.30 |
34.03 |
16.3% |
555,855 |
277,784 |
100.1% |
35.25 |
16.71 |
Source: Bloomberg
*Volume Change: 5-Day average volume over 30-Day average volume
*Market cap & last price are in their respective currencies
Company Description
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.
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.
Susquehanna Bancshares Inc (NASDAQ: SUSQ)
Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc. is a financial holding company, operating in multiple states. The Bank provides financial services through its affiliate banks at locations in the mid-Atlantic region. Susquehanna Bancshares also operates a trust and investment company, an asset management company, a property and casualty insurance brokerage company, and a leasing company.
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.
Sprylogics International Corp (TSXV: SPY)
Sprylogics International Corporation develops intelligence based analytical solutions and content. The company’s products are used for enhanced risk analysis and investigative research in the regulatory, law enforcement, government, financial services, investment and private sectors.
Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: ACHN)
Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops solutions for infectious diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, and resistant bacterial infections.
ICU Medical Inc (NASDAQ: ICUI)
ICU Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells disposable medical connection systems for use in intravenous (IV) therapy applications. The company’s products are designed to prevent accidental disconnection of IV lines and to protect healthcare workers and their patients from the spread of infectious disease such as Hepatitis B and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Cash America International Inc (NYSE: CSH)
Cash America International, Inc is a specialty financial services business that offers small loans to individuals through its storefront locations in the United States and Mexico. Through its e-commerce operations it offers a broad array of consumer loans in the United States as well as 3 foreign countries.
Luxoft Holding Inc (NYSE: LXFT)
Luxoft Holding, Inc. is a leading global provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions primarily to large multinational corporations. The company’s software development services consist of core and mission-critical custom software development and support, product engineering and testing, and technology consulting.
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.
Motorcar Parts of America Inc (NASDAQ: MPAA)
Motorcar Parts of America, Inc. manufactures replacement alternators and starters for imported and domestic cars and light trucks in the United States and Canada. The company also assembles and distributes ignition wire sets for imported and domestic cars and light trucks. Motorcar Parts has facilities in the United States, Singapore, and Malaysia.
