It is usually classified as peas to those small cap stocks They are listed on the Stock Exchange and usually have little liquidity, so in times of strong increases or decreases they can multiply the market trend. Furthermore, in many cases these are securities that have or have had problems in the past and therefore are very cheap and can show large fluctuations in their prices. An especially attractive scenario for certain types of investors with a love for risk.
Although it is important to remember that Past returns do not guarantee future returnsthe truth is that if these first two weeks of the year are analyzed, the securities with the best performance in the Continuous Market seem to fit this definition well.
Airtificial registers a increase of more than 25% in just two weeks of 2025, with a market capitalization that stands at around 152 million euros. The technology company, which fell 30% last year, comes from having successfully completed a capital increase for a total of 20 million euros at the end of last yearwith the strategic objective of boosting its growth through international expansion in key markets such as the US and China.
After this operation, just a few days ago the journalist and businessman Lalo renounced the double vote that would correspond to 44 million of his shares, in order not to reach the percentage of 30% of the company and that would force him to launch a takeover bid. Azcona is the main shareholder of the technology company. On January 2, it increased its participation, going from having 26.7% of the company’s shares to having 28.8%. He surpasses Leonardo Sánchez-Heredero Álvarez, a real estate businessman and owner of the Parcesa funeral home, who controls 23.59%.
A 23.6% increase registers Grupo Ezentis at the beginning of the year, bringing the market capitalization to 64 million. After the aggressive restructuring undertaken, the company returned to the stock market last year, finally closing the year with a slight negative balance.
Last November the company appointed José Elías Navarro as non-executive president of the board of directors. Elías, owner of La Sirena and president of Audax Renovables, is the main shareholder of Ezentis with 28.57% of the company. Just a few days before, the company had announced a capital increase of 1.1 million euros.
With a market value of more than 1,000 million euros,DIA tries to stop being considered a straw on the stock market. At the moment, Its shares rise 15.7% so far this year up to a price of 18 euro cents, but soon the price of each security will increase, since at the end of the year an extraordinary meeting approved an operation to group shares (against split), applying a exchange equation for one thousand (1,000) pre-existing shares of the company for one new share.
Guillaume Gras, Chief Financial Officer of Grupo Dia, explains that this operation has numerous good implications for value and shareholders, such as improving the company’s value profile and stabilizing the share price.
Along with this contra split, the shareholders also gave their approval to the refinancing of the debt, after the agreement of 885 million “aimed at reinforcing its capital structure and accelerating its growth plan” which it reached last December.