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Top Nanotechnology Stocks To Consider - March 21st

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat highlights Onto Innovation (ONTO), NVE (NVEC), Nano Dimension (NNDM), and Clene (CLNN) as nanotechnology stocks to watch based on recent dollar trading volume.
  • These companies span different nanotech niches: Onto Innovation focuses on optical metrology and lithography, NVE develops spintronic sensors, Nano Dimension provides additive manufacturing/3D printers for electronics, and Clene is a clinical‑stage firm developing clean‑surfaced nanotech therapeutics (CNM‑Au8).
  • Nanotechnology stocks provide thematic, growth‑oriented exposure with the potential for high upside but carry greater technological, regulatory, and market risk and volatility, and investors can gain exposure via individual shares or thematic ETFs/specialized funds.
  • MarketBeat previews the top five stocks to own by May 1st.

Onto Innovation, NVE, Nano Dimension, and Clene are the five Nanotechnology stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Nanotechnology stocks are shares of companies whose core businesses involve research, development, manufacture, or commercialization of nanoscale materials, devices, or processes—examples include nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, targeted drug-delivery systems, and nanosensors. For investors, these stocks represent a thematic, growth-oriented exposure that can offer high upside but also tend to carry greater technological, regulatory, and market risk and volatility than broad-market equities. Investors can gain exposure through individual company shares or through thematic ETFs and specialized funds. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Nanotechnology stocks within the last several days.

Onto Innovation (ONTO)

Onto Innovation Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and support of process control tools that performs optical metrology. The company offers lithography systems and process control analytical software. It also offers process and yield management solutions, and device packaging and test facilities through standalone systems for optical metrology, macro-defect inspection, packaging lithography, and transparent and opaque thin film measurements.

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NVE (NVEC)

NVE Corporation develops and sells devices that use spintronics, a nanotechnology that relies on electron spin to acquire, store, and transmit information in the United States and internationally. The company manufactures spintronic products, including sensors and couplers for use in acquiring and transmitting data.

Read Our Latest Research Report on NVEC

Nano Dimension (NNDM)

Nano Dimension Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in additive manufacturing solutions in Israel and internationally. The company offers 3D printers, comprising AME systems, which are inkjet printers, that produces Hi-PEDs by depositing proprietary conductive and dielectric substances, as well as integrates in-situ capacitors, antennas, coils, transformers, and electromechanical components; micro additive manufacturing systems, a digital light processing printers (DLP) that achieves production-grade polymer and composite parts; and industrial additive manufacturing systems, that utilizes a patented foil system that fabricates ceramic and metal parts.

Read Our Latest Research Report on NNDM

Clene (CLNN)

Clene Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel clean-surfaced nanotechnology (CSN) therapeutics. Its lead drug candidate is CNM-Au8, which is being studied in various clinical trials, including a completed Phase 2 platform trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of CNM-Au8 in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); completed Phase 2 proof of concept clinical trial in patients with early symptomatic ALS; completed two open-label investigator blinded Phase 2 clinical trials on the brain's energy metabolites; completed Phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of visual pathway deficits in chronic optic neuropathy for remyelination in stable relapsing Multiple Sclerosis; and a second Phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of patients with Parkinson's Diseases.

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