Today, we have picked 11 stocks across sectors of U.S. 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 0.3% to 63.8% with daily average trading volumes in excess of 100,000.
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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 |
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Cantel Medical Corp |
CMN |
NYSE |
Industrial |
1,525.4 |
36.80 |
0.3% |
238,718 |
109,120 |
118.8% |
40.19 |
29.60 |
|
American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust Inc |
HCT |
NASDAQ |
Financial |
1,867.6 |
11.03 |
1.4% |
4,430,015 |
2,131,493 |
107.8% |
11.15 |
9.44 |
|
Denny’s Corp |
DENN |
NASDAQ |
Consumer Discretionary |
633.6 |
7.46 |
2.6% |
2,071,553 |
653,215 |
217.1% |
7.96 |
6.13 |
|
MiMedx Group Inc |
MDXG |
NASDAQ |
Healthcare |
876.5 |
8.29 |
20.0% |
1,560,476 |
621,836 |
150.9% |
9.00 |
4.88 |
|
Penford Corp |
PENX |
NASDAQ |
Basic Materials |
237.1 |
18.66 |
63.8% |
351,745 |
77,394 |
354.5% |
18.90 |
10.71 |
|
ARC Document Solutions |
ARC |
NYSE |
Consumer Discretionary |
456.6 |
9.78 |
12.4% |
855,940 |
418,990 |
104.3% |
10.22 |
5.40 |
|
OraSure Technologies |
OSUR |
NASDAQ |
Healthcare |
466.7 |
8.34 |
5.1% |
2,120,593 |
673,283 |
215.0% |
9.58 |
5.34 |
|
Versar Inc |
VSR |
NYSE |
Consumer Discretionary |
43.8 |
4.50 |
46.1% |
18,465,814 |
3,089,117 |
497.8% |
7.84 |
2.69 |
|
Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc |
PTX |
NASDAQ |
Healthcare |
351.5 |
9.24 |
12.7% |
1,056,783 |
517,413 |
104.2% |
9.83 |
1.68 |
|
Domino’s Pizza Inc |
DPZ |
NYSE |
Consumer Discretionary |
4,666.7 |
84.84 |
11.0% |
1,249,576 |
548,854 |
127.7% |
85.00 |
66.05 |
|
Hudson Technologies |
HDSN |
NASDAQ |
Industrial |
129.4 |
4.04 |
36.9% |
441,963 |
180,026 |
145.5% |
4.46 |
1.75 |
Source: Bloomberg
*Volume Change: 5-Day average volume over 30-Day average volume
Company Description
Cantel Medical Corp (NYSE: CMN)
Cantel Medical Corp. is a healthcare company that provides infection prevention and control products and diagnostic and therapeutic medical equipment. The company offers products such as flexible and rigid endoscopes, microscopes, image analysis hardware and software, remote visual inspection devices, and photographic equipment. Cantel also provides technical maintenance services.
American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust Inc (NASDAQ: HCT)
American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust is a real estate investment trust. The Trust focuses on medical office buildings, hospitals, assisted living facilities, and skilled nursing facilities.
Denny’s Corp (NASDAQ: DENN)
Denny’s Corp. is a full-service family restaurant chain, operating directly and through franchisees. The company’s restaurants operate under the Denny’s name in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Guam, Mexico, New Zealand, and Puerto Rico.
MiMedx Group Inc (NASDAQ: MDXG)
MiMedx Group Inc. operates as a medical device company. The company is focused on biomaterials for soft tissue repair, such as tendons, ligaments, and cartilage, as well as other biomaterial based products for other medical applications. MiMedx Group serves the medical industry around the world.
Penford Corp (NASDAQ: PENX)
Penford Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets specialty carbohydrate chemicals for papermaking and specialty food ingredients. The company operates through its two subsidiaries, Penford Products Co. and Penford Food Ingredients Co.
ARC Document Solutions Inc (NYSE: ARC)
ARC Document Solutions Inc provides reprographic technology and services. The company provides services that include scanning, imaging, and managing black and white and color documents.
OraSure Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: OSUR)
OraSure Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices and diagnostic products. The company supplies oral fluid collection devices and assays to the life insurance industry and public health markets for the detection of antibodies to HIV. OraSure also supplies oral fluid testing solutions for drugs-of-abuse testing.
Versar Inc (NYSE: VSR)
Versar, Inc., an international professional services company, identifies customer’s needs to develop and implement solutions. The company focuses on environmental, health, and safety services, energy conservation services, and industrial and public infrastructure services. Versar’s GEOMET Technologies, Inc. subsidiary develops, tests, and provides personal protection equipment.
Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PTX)
Pernix Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. manufactures pharmaceuticals. The company acquires, develops and markets medications for the pediatric market including treatments for dermatitis; statin-induced ubiquinone deficiency; deficiencies in active cultures due to diet and antibiotics; and upper respiratory conditions.
Domino’s Pizza Inc (NYSE: DPZ)
Domino’s Pizza, Inc. operates a network of Company-owned and franchise Domino’s Pizza stores, located throughout the United States and in other countries. The company also operates regional dough manufacturing and distribution centers in the contiguous United States and outside the United States.
Hudson Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: HDSN)
Hudson Technologies, Inc. sells refrigerants, as well as provides a variety of related services. The company offers system decontamination to remove moisture, oils and other contaminants, and provides recovery and reclamation of the refrigerants used in commercial air conditioning and refrigeration systems.
