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Top Small Cap Stocks To Watch Today - October 22nd

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Key Points

  • Small-cap stocks like Beyond Meat, Spring Valley Acquisition, Veritex, Avadel Pharmaceuticals, and Krispy Kreme are highlighted for their significant trading volume and potential for greater growth despite higher volatility.
  • Beyond Meat continues to expand its plant-based product offerings, targeting various markets including grocery stores and food service outlets.
  • Avadel Pharmaceuticals is advancing its lead product, LUMRYZ, in a Phase 3 clinical trial aimed at treating narcolepsy-related conditions.
  • MarketBeat previews top five stocks to own in November.

Beyond Meat, Spring Valley Acquisition, Veritex, Avadel Pharmaceuticals, and Krispy Kreme 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, typically roughly between $300 million and $2 billion (exact thresholds vary by index provider). Investors view them as higher-growth, higher-volatility and often less liquid than large-cap stocks, which can offer greater upside potential but also greater risk and price swings. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Small Cap stocks within the last several days.

Beyond Meat (BYND)

Beyond Meat, Inc., a plant-based meat company, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells plant-based meat products in the United States and internationally. The company sells a range of plant-based meat products across the platforms of beef, pork, and poultry. It sells its products through grocery, mass merchandiser, club stores, and natural retailer channels, as well as various food-away-from-home channels, including restaurants, foodservice outlets, and schools.

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Spring Valley Acquisition (SV)

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Veritex (VBTX)

Veritex Holdings, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Veritex Community Bank that provides various commercial banking products and services to small and medium-sized businesses, and professionals. The company accepts deposit products include demand, savings, money market, and time accounts.

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Avadel Pharmaceuticals (AVDL)

Avadel Pharmaceuticals plc operates as a biopharmaceutical company in the United States. Its lead product candidate is LUMRYZ, a formulation of sodium oxybate, which is in a Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness or cataplexy in adults with narcolepsy. The company was formerly known as Flamel Technologies SA and changed its name to Avadel Pharmaceuticals plc in January 2017.

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Krispy Kreme (DNUT)

Krispy Kreme, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces doughnuts in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, Japan, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: U.S., International, and Market Development. The company offers doughnut experiences through hot light theater and fresh shops, delivered fresh daily branded cabinets and merchandising units within grocery and convenience stores, quick service restaurants, club memberships, drug stores, and ecommerce, as well as through its branded sweet treat line comprising Krispy Kreme branded sweet treats.

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