(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers on AIM in London on Wednesday.
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AIM - WINNERS
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Symphony Environmental Technologies, up 11% at 21.17 pence, 12-month range 10.65p-47.0p. The anti-microbial plastic technologies firm receives approval from the US Food & Drug Administration for its d2p antimicrobial food contact technology.
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88 Energy, up 7.9% at 1.89p, 12-month range 0.24p-4.70p. The Alaska-focused oil exploration and appraisal company says additional phase one geochemical analysis of fluid extracts from Merlin-1 well core samples again demonstrates the presence of hydrocarbons. Results from phase two of side-wall core trim analysis are expected in the next few weeks. Phase two is designed to confirm not only the presence of oil but also the nature of the source rock, to help understand the likely quality of the oil as well as migration pathways.
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Alpha FX Group, up 6.7% at 1,665.00p, 12-month range 677p-1,720p. The foreign exchange risk management and international payments firm says trading in the first half ended June 30 has been "strong" across its business, with revenue up 89% year on year at GBP34 million. Adds 84 new clients and notes average revenue per client continued to increase. The company expects to exceed current internal expectations for 2021, on the back of continued strong trading. In 2020, saw revenue of GBP46.2 million with pretax profit of GBP17.1 million.
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Avacta, up 5.9% at 143.56p, 12-month range 88.66p-291.80p. The developer of diagnostics and cancer therapies says Life Sciences unit gets ISO 13485 certification for the quality management system for the manufacture and distribution of Affimer reagents for use in lateral flow, ELISA and immunodiagnostic in-vitro diagnostic devices.
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Fulcrum Utility Services, up 5.6% at 32.74p, 12-month range 28.25p-43.60p. The energy and multi-utility services provider wins new GBP4.9 million multi-utility infrastructure contract from unnamed "large investor developer", for a "major" new employment park in the West Midlands. As part of the contract, the company will design and install a high voltage primary substation and the electricity, water, and gas infrastructure to "energise and power" the new development.
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AIM - LOSERS
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Tern, down 13% at 19.40p, 12-month range 5.50p-31.67p. The investment firm completes fundraise at the issue price of 18.8p per share. The retail offer and subscription were both oversubscribed and the company said it raised GBP2 million and GBP4 million, respectively. "We intend to utilise the proceeds to maximise the value to our shareholders of our portfolio, and I look forward to providing further updates in due course," says Chief Executive Al Sisto.
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Kromek Group, down 7.0% at 15.00p, 12-month range 7.66p-25.20p. The detection technology firm says revenue totalled GBP10.4 million for the financial year that ended April 30 versus GBP13.1 million the year before. Pretax loss, however, narrows to GBP6.3 million from GBP18.3 million loss the year prior. This is due to non-repeat of GBP13.1 million of exceptional impairment losses on trade receivables and amounts recoverable on contracts. Separately, Kromek says it wins new contracts and orders across all segments for delivery this year.
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By Evelina Grecenko; evelinagrecenko@alliancenews.com
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88 Energy (88E)
Kromek (KMK)
Symphony Env. (SYM)
Avacta Group (AVCT)
Tern (TERN)