CytoMed Therapeutics (NASDAQ:GDTC) stock is rocketing higher on Tuesday despite a lack of news concerning the company this morning.
Instead of a press release of filing sending the shares higher, heavy trading is behind today’s movement. As of this writing, more than 3.7 million shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock have changed hands. To put that number in perspective, the daily average trading volume of GDTC stock is only a fraction of that at about 150,000 shares.
Also worth noting is GDTC stock closing trading on Monday at $3.50 per share, as well as its market capitalization of around $40 million as of this writing. Both of these figures are low enough that they set GDTC as a penny stock.
Being a penny stock does help explain some of the extreme movement GDTC shares are seeing this morning. These types of stocks are often volatile due to how easily groups of traders can manipulate them. We often see these types of manipulations during pre-market trading, which is the same time that GDTC is rallying today.
Other GDTC Stock News
While there’s no news from CytoMed Therapeutics today that explains its rally, there have been some other recent announcements from the company. Late last week, for instance, it revealed that A*STAR received a patent for its CAR-gamma delta T cell technology.
That was important news for investors in GDTC stock as CytoMed Therapeutics holds an exclusive license to that tech from A*STAR. It’s also worth noting that CytoMed Therapeutics is a spinoff from A*STAR.
GDTC stock is up 156.5% as of Tuesday morning.
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