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Top Small Cap Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - May 1st

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat flagged five small-cap stocks to watch: Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. II (IPXX), Direxion Daily MU Bull 2X Shares (MUU), Cue Biopharma (CUE), Esperion Therapeutics (ESPR), and Akanda (AKAN).
  • These stocks had the highest dollar trading volume among small caps recently, indicating elevated market interest but also the greater volatility and liquidity risks typical of small-cap shares (roughly $300M–$2B market caps).
  • Notable company details: Cue Biopharma is a clinical-stage biotech developing CUE-101 for HPV16+ head and neck cancer, and Esperion markets non-statin LDL‑C drugs NEXLETOL and NEXLIZET.
  • MarketBeat previews the top five stocks to own by June 1st.

Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. II, Direxion Daily MU Bull 2X Shares, Cue Biopharma, Esperion Therapeutics, and Akanda are the five 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—commonly defined as roughly $300 million to $2 billion, though exact cutoffs vary by index provider. They often offer higher growth potential but come with greater volatility, liquidity constraints, and business risk compared with larger-cap stocks. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Small Cap stocks within the last several days.

Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. II (IPXX)

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Direxion Daily MU Bull 2X Shares (MUU)

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Cue Biopharma (CUE)

Cue Biopharma, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops a novel class of injectable therapeutics to selectively engage and modulate targeted, disease relevant T cells directly within the patient's body. Its lead drug product candidate is CUE-101 for the treatment of human papilloma virus (HPV16+)-driven recurrent/metastatic head and neck cancer.

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Esperion Therapeutics (ESPR)

Esperion Therapeutics, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes medicines for the treatment of patients with elevated low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Its marketed products include NEXLETOL (bempedoic acid) and NEXLIZET (bempedoic acid and ezetimibe) tablets that are oral, once-daily, non-statin medicines for the treatment of primary hyperlipidemia in adults with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia or atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease who require additional lowering of LDL-C.

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Akanda (AKAN)

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