Healthy Upside Potential Seen in 5 More Stocks Trading Under $10

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Published: September 14, 2019 9:15 am

Last Updated: January 6, 2020 2:29 am

While most of Wall Street focuses on large and mega cap stocks, as they provide a degree of safety and liquidity, many investors are limited in the number of shares they can buy. Often the biggest public companies, especially the technology giants, trade in the low-to-mid hundreds, all the way up to over $1,000 per share. At those steep prices, it’s pretty hard to get any decent share count leverage.

Many investors, especially more aggressive traders, look at lower-priced stocks as a way to not only make some good money but to get a higher share count. That can really help the decision-making process, especially when you are on to a winner, as you can always sell half and keep half.

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Every week, we screen our 24/7 Wall St. research database looking for stocks with Buy equivalent rating at major firms and priced under the $10 level (last week’s picks included BlackBerry and TiVo), and this week was no exception. We found five more stocks that could provide investors with some solid upside potential. While more suited for aggressive accounts, they could prove exciting additions to portfolios looking for solid alpha potential.

Callon Petroleum

This is a small-cap stock that Northland Securities favors. Callon Petroleum Co. (NYSE: CPE) is an independent oil and natural gas company that is engaged in the exploration, development, acquisition and production of oil and natural gas properties. The company focuses on the acquisition and development of unconventional oil and natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin.

Callon’s drilling activity focuses on the horizontal development of various prospective intervals in the Midland Basin, including multiple levels of the Wolfcamp formation and the Lower Spraberry shale. The company made a huge $570 million acquisition of 29,000 net acres last May, which more than doubled its Delaware Basin footprint.

Northland Securities has a price target of $10, while the Wall Street consensus target was last seen at $8.78. The stock was trading at $4.51 a share on Friday’s close.

Galmed Pharmaceuticals

This off-the-radar pick could be poised to be a huge winner. Galmed Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (NASDAQ: GLMD) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the development of the liver-targeted stearoyl-coenzyme A desaturase-1 modulator Aramchol, novel, once-daily, oral therapy for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) for variable populations, as well as other liver-associated disorders.

Its Aramchol is a synthetic conjugate of cholic acid, or a type of bile acid, and arachidic acid, or a type of saturated fatty acid, both of which, in their non-synthetic forms, are naturally occurring.

The analysts at Maxim have a towering $20 price objective, but the posted consensus target is even higher at $31.33. The shares were trading on Friday’s close at $5.23 apiece.