11 Stocks At Their 52-Week Highs
Sean Mason, SmallCapPower.com | Jun 09, 2014 10:51AM ET
Several of the North American equity indices marked their all-time highs last week as investors welcomed new stimulus measures from the European Central Bank, encouraging data on the U.S. labor market and improved U.S. manufacturing and services sectors. The small-cap Russell 2000 Index registered biggest gains for the week and entered into the positive territory for the year. Last week, the central bank of Canada also announced to keep its key interest rate unchanged at 1%, but highlighted concern about the downside risks to inflation.
Today we have highlighted 11 stocks across sectors that are hovering around their 52-week highs and have registered an increase of over 100% in daily average trading volumes during the past five days compared with the past one month daily average trading volumes, indicating a strong market interest. Moreover, these stocks outperformed their respective equity indices and sector indices last week registering significant gains and touched their new 52-week highs during the week. The shortlisted stocks recorded price gains ranging from 5% to 32% with daily average traded volume in excess of 100,000.
Source: Bloomberg
Market Cap & Last Price are in their respective currencies
*Volume Comparison: 5-Day average volume over 30-Day average volume
Company Description
American Realty (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.
Genesis Land Development Corp. (TO:GDC)
Genesis Land Development Corp. is a land development company with properties located in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. The company converts its land supply into single-family and multi-family dwelling sites.; Genesis rezones new properties, develops existing land holdings, and lobbies for offsite utility connections.
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Adecoagro SA (NYSE:AGRO)
Adecoagro S.A. is an agricultural company in South America, with operations in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. The company is currently involved in a broad range of businesses, including farming crops and other agricultural products, cattle and dairy operations, sugar, ethanol and energy production and land transformation.
Canaccord Financial Inc. (TO:CF)
Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. is an independent full service financial services firm. The company provides investment products, brokerage services, and investment banking services to retail, institutional, and corporate clients.; Canaccord operates around the world including offices in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Hong Kong and China.
Limelight Networks Inc. (NASDAQ:LLNW)
Limelight Networks Inc is a content delivery network for internet distribution of video, music, games and downloads. The company's advanced content delivery network provides the world's top media companies' high performance delivery of digital media and software via the Internet.
Sypris Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ:SYPR)
Sypris Solutions, Inc. provides technology-based outsourced services and specialty products. The company performs manufacturing and technical services, typically under multi-year, sole-source contracts with major corporations and government agencies in the markets for aerospace and defense electronics, truck components and assemblies, and for users of test and measurement equipment.
The Ensign Group Inc. (NASDAQ:ENSG)
Ensign Group, Inc. operates facilities offering nursing and rehabilitative care services in multiple states. The company provides a broad spectrum of nursing and assisted living services, physical, occupational and speech therapies, and other rehabilitative and healthcare services, for both long-term residents and short-stay rehabilitation patients.
Vince Holding Co. (NYSE:VNCE)
Vince Holding Corp. is a holding company. The company, through its subsidiaries, develops branded fashion apparel for men and women and recreational products.
Petrowest Corporation (TO:PRW)
Petrowest Energy Services Corp. is an oilfield services company. The company provides pre-drilling and post completion services to the northern region of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
Lannett Co. Inc. (AMEX:LCI)
Lannett Company, Inc. manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products under its own trade name and under generic names. The company also distributes competitive pharmaceutical products manufactured by other companies. The principal products include antifungals, antacids, dermatological preparations, and analgesic sedatives.
FalconStor Software Inc. (NASDAQ:FALC)
FalconStor Software, Inc. provides a software-only storage networking solution that simplifies storage management. The company's IPStor is a storage networking software infrastructure that provides storage services such as virtualization, active-active failover, capacity-on-demand, remote replication, and mirroring. FalconStor operates sales and support offices worldwide.
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