Best Small Cap Stocks To Consider - April 17th

Key Points

• MarketBeat's screener flagged seven small‑cap stocks with the highest recent dollar trading volume: ALCC, EFOI, CRML, SV, IPAX, MUU, and PBM.
• Key business themes among them are energy and defense lighting (Energy Focus — EFOI), lithium exploration (Critical Metals — CRML), and psychedelic pharmaceutical development with a Phase IIb psilocybin candidate (Psyence Biomedical — PBM).
• Several listed names are SPACs or acquisition vehicles with limited operations (e.g., AltC/ALCC, Spring Valley/SV, Inflection Point/IPAX), and MUU is a 2x leveraged ETF, underscoring the higher volatility and liquidity risks of these small‑cap plays.

AltC Acquisition, Energy Focus, Critical Metals, Spring Valley Acquisition, Inflection Point Acquisition, Direxion Daily MU Bull 2X Shares, and Psyence Biomedical are the seven Small Cap stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Small-cap stocks are shares of publicly traded companies with relatively small market capitalizations, generally ranging from roughly $300 million to $2 billion (exact cutoffs vary by index and data provider). They are often younger or niche businesses that can offer higher growth potential but typically come with greater volatility and liquidity risk compared with mid- and large-cap stocks. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Small Cap stocks within the last several days.

AltC Acquisition (ALCC)

AltC Acquisition Corp. does not have significant operations. It intends to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or other business combination with one or more businesses. The company was formerly known as Churchill Capital Corp VIII and changed its name to AltC Acquisition Corp.

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Energy Focus (EFOI)

Energy Focus, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells energy-efficient lighting systems, and controls and ultraviolet-C light disinfection products in the United States and internationally. It offers military maritime market light-emitting diode (LED) lighting products, such as Military-grade Intellitube retrofit TLED and the Invisitube ultra-low EMI TLED; and Military-grade fixtures, including LED globe lights, berth lights; high-bay fixtures and LED retrofit kits to serve the United States navy and allied foreign navies.

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Critical Metals (CRML)

Critical Metals Corp. engages in the mining, exploration, and development of lithium metals. It owns Wolfsberg Project and Tanbreez Project. The company was founded on October 24, 2022 and is headquartered in British Virgin Islands.

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Spring Valley Acquisition (SV)

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Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX)

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Direxion Daily MU Bull 2X Shares (MUU)

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Psyence Biomedical (PBM)

Psyence Biomedical Ltd. engages in the development of botanical psilocybin-based psychedelic medicines. It also evaluates natural psilocybin for the treatment of adjustment disorder in patients with an incurable cancer diagnosis in a palliative care context. The company's lead product candidate is PEX010, which is in Phase IIb clinical study, a capsule containing naturally sourced psilocybin for treatment of anxiety and depression, including associated ailments, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, stress, grief, and adjustment disorder in the context of palliative care.

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