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Greetings and welcome to HotCopper Highlights for Week 12 of 2026, I’m Jon Davidson, in this segment the stocks and company announcements you were watching this week on Australia’s #1 finance website, let’s get straight into it, starting with the most viewed.
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It was last year’s biotech IPO darling Tetratherix that caught eyes this week when it announced a plan to move into developing a nasal spray GLP-1 drug like Ozempic; while the company says it will use its “polymer platform” to deliver the drugs, whatever that means, investors were aware weight loss drugs and skin grafts are far apart. What’s more, HSBC analysts say GLP-1 hype might be over: but it’s still early days.
Elsewhere, how can we not cover Core Lithium. The former darling back when lithium ran hard has long been a satellite stock to Pilbara Minerals as far as sentiment and investor enthusiasm go, Core this week announced that a $170M injection in part from Glencore will allow it to restart its Finniss project – after a capital raise – and that’s caused the excitement you’d expect. But can lithium hype return to COVID levels? I’d be surprised, but investors won’t want to hear that.
Finally, ARN Media, the station that owned the Kyle and Jackie-O show, this week moved to cancel its contract with Kyle Sandilands, and now Kyle Sandilands is going to sue. Or maybe just buy a controlling stake in ARN Media. Interesting times for the company that doesn’t really get traded all that much but one of the stock market’s few remaining real media stocks. Litigation might kill the radio star after all.
And so what of the most discussed?
Graphite player NOVONIX this week received a notice from the NASDAQ, where it has offshore receipts listed, that the company’s got 180 days to turn its share price around. The stock’s been trading at under $1 a pop US for 10 days in a row, and that triggered the warning from the bourse that doesn’t want to deal with anything less than that; investors weren’t entirely confident.
Elsewhere, West Wits Mining – one of many gold junior explorers on the ASX, but one which has managed to eke producer status against the odds of regular economics, thanks to gold prices – this week poured its first bar of gold, and unfortunately, the market shrugged. With gold under $5K US and the safe haven thematic looking shaky, a cruel fate for West Wits’ long awaited milestone.
Finally, defence junior AML3D popping intraweek along with other juniors – that is to say, stocks that aren’t EOS or Droneshield – on the back of a contract with the US Department of War. The 3D printing specialist targeting the US Navy curiously has some very like minded competitors, and all boats enjoyed a rising tide. One positive, for some, coming from the Iran War.
That’s HotCopper Highlights, I’m Jon Davidson, I’m off to Darwin for a week so we won’t see each other for a while, but it’ll be soon enough. Have a great weekend.
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